[ckan-dev] Deleting/purging an organisation CKAN 2.1

Mon Jun 2 08:17:57 UTC 2014

Hi All,

I'm trying to remove a deleted CKAN organisation/group from CKAN 2.1.1.
The reason we want to do this is because we have decided that we want to
use the same name/URL again, so advice on how to "turn it on" again would
be just as useful for now.

I gather from these emails in a thread from Feb that I should be doing an
organization_purge
https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/2014-February/006906.html
https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/2014-February/006908.html

But I can't seem to get organization purge to work with 2.1.1 (see output
below).

So my questions are:
1) Is the organization_purge implemented in 2.1.1?
2) If it is not how do I remove an organization completely?
3) Can I turn the organization back on - is it simply a matter of changing
 the state column of the group table from "deleted" to "active" or is there
more to it than this?

Thanks and Regards
Jason Tan

organization_delete apparently works fine - I assume that is what is
eventually invoked when you click the delete button on the Organization
page as despite the fact we get a "success" message it does not actually
get rid of the organization /group i.e. we can go to
https://ckan-app-dev.green.ersa.edu.au/organization/some-university or
https://ckan-app-dev.green.ersa.edu.au/group/some-university and see the
details
curl --user ersackan:ersa-rdsi-ckan  -k
https://ckan-app-dev.green.ersa.edu.au/api/3/action/organization_delete -H
"X-CKAN-API-KEY: <my api key>"  -d '{"id":"some-university"}'
{"help": "Delete a organization.\n\n    You must be authorized to delete
the organization.\n\n    :param id: the name or id of the organization\n
 :type id: string\n\n    ", "success": true, "result": null}
I guess demonstrates that the general from of my curl command is correct
(curl's -k flag just says ignore cert problems).

However organization_purge does not work from curl
curl --user ersackan:ersa-rdsi-ckan  -k
https://ckan-app-dev.green.ersa.edu.au/api/3/action/organization_purge -H
"X-CKAN-API-KEY: <my api key>"  -d
'{"id":"91a1ae30-2928-4722-89a7-0395fedb3010"}'
"Bad request - Action name not known: organization_purge"[root at ckan-db-dev
~]#

Or from the CLI:
(default)[ckan at ckan-app-dev bin]$ echo '{"id":"flinders-university"}'|
 /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/paster --plugin=ckan post -c
 /etc/ckan/default/development.ini /api/action/organization_purge
No handlers could be found for logger "ckan.controllers.api"

I

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Jason Tan
Data Infrastructure Specialist, eResearch SA

phone: +61 8 8313 2184
Mob: +61 407 268 270
email: jason.tan at ersa.edu.au
web: http://www.ersa.edu.au
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