[ckan-dev] Resource.hash

Thu May 30 02:55:55 UTC 2013

What I missed in this confusion is that the hash is stored by plugins, not
by CKAN itself. This clears up things for me.

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On 29 May 2013 17:22, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Resources have a hash field.
>
> This is used by the datastorer to see if a resource has changed I am
> not sure why last modified is not used here.
>
> We have a failing test that seems to be related to this
> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/issues/818 as the results are ordered by
> hash which I think may be ''
>
> So my questions are.
>
> 1) why do we have this field/ what is the usecase ?
>
> 2) If it should change when the resource is updated - should this not
> be moved into the model so it is always done?
>
> 3) should it be even changable by a user?
>
> 4) Can we just kill it?
>
>
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