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

[David Megginson]

CKAN doesn't like to hard-delete things. Would it make more sense to remove
all users and datasets from the organisation manually, then just reassign
it to new users and datasets?


Cheers, David


On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Jason Tan <jason.tan at ersa.edu.au> wrote:

> 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"
>
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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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