[ckan-dev] A new ckan client library: ckanapi

Wed Apr 24 18:53:13 UTC 2013

Hi Ian,

Am 24.04.2013 18:57, schrieb Ian Ward:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:28 AM, John Mrziglod <mrzo at gmx.de 
> <mailto:mrzo at gmx.de>> wrote:
>
>     response = ckan_object.call_action(action,object);
>     It works fine by using 'action=package_update' with default
>     fields, e.g.:
>     object = {"name":"extratest","title":"Test with Extras"}
>     But what I need is an update with an extras data field, i.e.:
>     object = {"name":"extratest","title":"Test with Extras","extras":
>     [{"key": "config",  "value": "xxx"}]}
>
>
> That looks about right, but it's always nicer to see actual code.
Our python script is attached ... and test json-data in file ddd
> What happens when you do this, the extras just don't appear?
Try e.g. (of course you have to set before your ckan instance (iphost) 
and the api_key :

 > ckan_api.py -a package_create -f ddd
....
[ERROR] Name is not valid !

(Don't know what it's wrong with the name 
'echam5_mpi-om_dmi_eh5_run4_a1b_sfc' ? )

and
 > ckan_api.py -a package_update -f ddd

hangs for ever and nothing happens ...
>
> BTW, ckanapi just json encodes everything passed and sends them to the 
> action, it doesn't have any specific handling for package_update or 
> any other action.
Ok, then what should be used just to do some really basic things :

1. create a data set (just with default keys 'author' and 'maintainer')
2. update new meta data (key:value pairs) to the data set (as well 
extras-fields)
3. add the dataset to a group

Likely we go in the total wrong direction - but I'm pretty sure, that 
there is an easy way or perform this simple upload actions with the CKAN 
APIs !?

Maybe you can send us a python code, that performs at least the create 
and update step ?
This would help a lot !

Heinrich
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