[ckan-dev] Linking Dataset by Resource Search in the API

[Alec Bennett]

Glad to hear it will be resolved soon.  Thanks Ian!

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Alec Bennett <apbennett at alaska.edu> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I'm working on an issue where we're trying to display some basic info
>> from a Dataset and create a link back to the CKAN pages for that
>> Dataset based on a page displaying Resource information (from an API
>> search).  I can search for the Resource I want and display it just
>> fine via the API, but I can't seem to find a way to associate a search
>> for a Resource back to a Dataset to get the metadata I'm wanting.
>>
>> Is there a common field shared, like a foreign key, or is there a
>> better method to do what I'm trying to do?
>
> I believe this is now fixed on master, and will be fixed on the
> upcoming 2.3 release. Resources used to return a resource group id,
> which is an internal id that doesn't help API users at all (there's
> nothing you can query via the API with a resource group id). Now
> resource_show returns the ids for the datasets they belong to instead.
>
> Ian
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