[ckan-dev] package_update action API doubt

Mon Sep 2 09:49:48 UTC 2013

Thanks for your help Sean!

2013/8/26 Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org>

> > Im trying to update the information of a field ("Author") using
> > package_update API action call.
> >
> > My call is: *(Demo content)
> >
> > http http://my.ckan.instance/api/3/action/package_update id=dummyDataset
> > author=dummyAuthor Authorization:my_API_KEY
> >
> > My problem is when I change the author field, all the others fields (and
> > resources also) are deleted and put in blank.
> >
> > There is a way to maintain the information of all package schema and only
> > change the information of a field?.
>
> You need to pass the (unchanged) value of the author field (and all
> other package fields) to package_update. As far as I know there's no way
> around this when using the API.
>
> I don't think this is a very nice feature of the API (and I don't think
> it's consistent with all other *_update API actions in CKAN either), I'd
> like it to get cleaned up but for now I think we're stuck with it.
>
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