[ckan-dev] Datastore register "Null" for fields with value "0"

[Dominik Moritz]

Hi Jorge,

You found a bug in the datstorer. It should be fixed in [1]. Can you confirm this?

Thanks a lot for sending your report. It was really helpful!

Best wishes,
Dominik

[1] https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-datastorer/pull/45


On 18 Jun 2013, at 12:51, Jorge Pantoja <jorgepantojam at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dominik, sorry for not answering your email soon.
> 
> You can check this link for an example dataset I have:
> http://data.upf.edu/dataset/temporal-dataset
> 
> You can check two files, one in xlsx and another in csv. For the file in
> csv, after the datastorer creates the api for this dataset, for the column
> "Data2" creates the data_type numeric and in the datapreview, the values
> for that column are null and not "0", therefore, for the api the same. You
> can download the csv file to check that the Data2 column values are "0".
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> 
> Jorge
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Dominik Moritz <dominik.moritz at okfn.org>wrote:
> 
>> Hey Jorge,
>> 
>> Can you show me an example?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Dominik
>> 
>> On 11 Jun 2013, at 00:30, Jorge Pantoja <jorgepantojam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Henrik,
>>> 
>>> I didn’t do that, because I was using the datastorer to automatically add
>>> the files into the database. I will try to do the upload through the
>>> datastore API specifying the type of the field. However, using the
>>> datastorer, this still happens to me with the datasets that I want to
>>> upload.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your help,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jorge
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Henrik Korsgaard <
>> henrikkorsgaard at gmail.com
>>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Jorge
>>>> 
>>>> Did you set the type of each field when the dataset was created in the
>>>> datastore?, i.e. {"id":"some_name", "type":"int"}
>>>> 
>>>> I had a similar experience where postgres 'casted' a string containing
>>>> numbers, e.g. "123" to an integer and then responded with an error if
>> the
>>>> record fields was "123d". I changed the fields of the dataset and
>> included
>>>> the type for every field, and now postgres is acting normal.
>>>> 
>>>> Lesson learned - always set the type when creating dataset in datastore.
>>>> 
>>>> -Henrik
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 10 June 2013 14:49, Jorge Pantoja <jorgepantojam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I was checking the datastore values for some datasets that I´ve added
>> and
>>>>> I noticed that for fields that have "0" as a value, are registered with
>>>>> Null. I’ve checked this with the API and in the postgres database. I´ve
>>>>> uploaded CSV and XLSX files. I’m using Ckan 2.0 (installation from
>> source).
>>>>> 
>>>>> What might the problem be?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks again for your help,
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jorge
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>>> 
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