[ckan-dev] Subject: Re: problem inserting a row in the dataset

[fwolanczyk at cs.com]

hi dominik,
i apologize for not knowing how to reply to the post - 
there is not POST nor GET in the string, so i dont understand what you mean...
fran w



Hi,

use POST, instead of GET[1] to write data to datastore_upsert.

Cheers,
Dominik

[1] http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_httpmethods.asp

On 31 May 2013, at 18:35, fwolanczyk at cs.com wrote:

> 
> 
> hi there,
> we tried to ask 
> Gavin Chait | Head of Services | Open Knowledge Foundation
> for  help, but were asked to post to the dev list - i hope someone can help - 
we have a deadline for this NYC BigApps contest of june 7, so this is timely 
critical!
> 
> 
> i made a dataset, and i have no problem querying the set using this string (i 
blocked out the id number)
> 
> 
> 
>    NSString *feedURLString = @"http://sandboxdw.pediacities.com/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=XXX&limit=5";
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> i am getting "http error" (400) when i try to insert a row in it 
> here is the url i use
> 
> 
> 
> http://sandboxdw.pediacities.com/api/3/action/datastore_upsert?resource_id=XXX&records=%7B%22Division%22:%20%22BMTFake%22,%20%22Line%22:%20%22BroadwayFake%22,%22Station_Name%22:%20%2249th%20St%22,%22Station_Latitude%22:%20%22BMTFake%22,%22Station_Longitude%22:%20%20%22-73.984139%22%7D&method=insert
> 
> 
> 
> i am only providing a few of the columns on the dataset - that cant be the 
problem... it must be the syntax... i have spent hours researching this, to no 
avail - any ideas??
> thnx,
> fran
> 


 
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