[ckan-dev] how may I add a new harvesting source?

[Elena Camossi]

Thanks a lot Emanuele,

This solved the problem.

Kind regards,
-Elena 

-----Original Message-----
From: Emanuele Tajariol [mailto:e.tajariol at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 10:37 AM
To: Elena Camossi
Cc: ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [ckan-dev] how may I add a new harvesting source?

Hi Elena,

> I'm trying to harvest a CSW catalog using CKAN (version 2.1), but I'm 
> stuck trying to add a new harvesting source.
> 
> I expected to find a control (a button, a link, a dropdown, a menu 
> item) within the harvesting web interface at http:// 
> <http://%3cmysite%3e/harvest> <mysite>/harvest, but  I didn't find 
> anything, but according to what I have read here and somewhere, there 
> was something in the past versions.

There should be a page for inserting new harvesting sources at
  ... /harvest/new
I guess that the link to that page is missing indeed.

   Cheers,
   Emanuele


Alle 16:36:40 di Thursday 10 October 2013, Elena Camossi ha scritto:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> 
> 
> I'm trying to harvest a CSW catalog using CKAN (version 2.1), but I'm 
> stuck trying to add a new harvesting source.
> 
> 
> 
> I expected to find a control (a button, a link, a dropdown, a menu 
> item) within the harvesting web interface at http:// 
> <http://%3cmysite%3e/harvest> <mysite>/harvest, but  I didn't find 
> anything, but according to what I have read here and somewhere, there 
> was something in the past versions.
> 
> 
> 
> So, I tried the CLI instead, running the paster command
> 
> harvester source
> 
> as described here:
> https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-harvest#command-line-interface, but I 
> don't know how to pass the required parameter source type to describe 
> I want to use a CSW harvester for this source , and I get an error 
> 'Please provide a source type'. The obvious csw, csw_harvest, etc 
> don't work and give another
> error:
> 
> 
> 
> ckan.logic.ValidationError: {'name': ['Url must be purely lowercase 
> alphanumeric (ascii) characters and these symbols: -_'], 'source_type':
> [u'Unknown harvester type: csw. Have you registered a harvester for 
> this type?']}
> 
> 
> 
> Where are the available harvesters registered? Is there any 
> configuration file listing them?
> 
> 
> 
> My plugin setting is as follows:
> 
> 
> 
> ckan.plugins = stats text_preview recline_preview synchronous_search 
> harvest ckan_harvester spatial_metadata spatial_query wms_preview 
> csw_harvester doc_harvester waf_harvester spatial_harvest_metadata_api 
> resource_proxy pdf_preview geojson_preview
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help and suggestion.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Elena