[ckan-dev] package_update deletes existing information

Fri Feb 7 16:28:10 UTC 2014

I'm trying to do it through the API as a PUT request I get a 404 as a POST I get a 409 error. 

should my message body look like this as an example:

{"resource":{"name":"test"}}

thanks. 

> On Feb 7, 2014, at 9:41 AM, "Stéphane Guidoin" <stephane at opennorth.ca> wrote:
> 
> +1 It would be great to have an equivalent action as HTTP PATCH.
> 
> There is an ongoing thread about the same topic for resources: https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/2014-February/006755.html
> 
> Steph
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> wrote:
>> There's a related issue[1] where I've suggested adding a
>> package_update_partial action for this sort of thing. I think that's
>> what you're looking for.
>> 
>> [1]: https://github.com/ckan/ckan/issues/1416
>> 
>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Austlid Hilde <hilde.austlid at vegvesen.no> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > If I use the API to update entries, I find that some existing information is deleted. For instance, if I use package_update to change the title of a package, I lose all resources, existing tags, and extra fields for that package, but keep description, license, maintainer, and author.
>> >
>> > The brute force solution is, of course, to read all existing information when I want to do an update, and then add it back together with the new information. Is there a better solution?
>> >
>> > Also, is this a bug which I should report on https://github.com/ckan/ckan/issues , or is there a reason for it to be this way?
>> >
>> > Background info:
>> > I use a python script based on the example on http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html#example-importing-datasets-with-the-ckan-api
>> > I only have dictionary entries for the fields I want to touch. For instance, when I update a title, my dataset_dict = {'name': 'test_package', 'title': 'New title'}
>> > I'm running CKAN 2.2, and using the latest version of the API.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Hilde
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