[ckan-dev] Cannot post json data to our own ckan server using the Ckan php client

Thu Mar 6 01:06:05 UTC 2014

Hi All,

I am trying to use CKan php client to send following json data to one of
our own ckan servers.

{"name":"Test2","title":"Test 2 by
Lloyd","url":"lloyd_2","notes":"notes_2","tags":
 [],"maintainer":"Lloyd","maintainer_email":"lloydharis at gmail.com
","license_id":"ll_2","resources":[]}

The code is:

$ckan = new Ckan_client("http://my_url/api/");
$ckan->set_api_key('my_api_key');
$data_array = array("name" => "Test2",
"title" => "Test 2 by Lloyd",
"url" => "lloyd_2",
"notes" => "notes_2",
"tags" => array(),
"maintainer" => "Lloyd",
"maintainer_email" => "my_email at xxxx.com",
"license_id" => "ll_2",
"resources" => array());
$json_data = json_encode($data_array);
 $ckan->post_package_register($json_data);

Then when I look at curl response, It says following:

{"name": ["Url must be purely lowercase alphanumeric (ascii) characters and
these symbols: -
 _"]}

And get 409 error - which is "Conflict (e.g. name already exists)"
according to Ckan_client.php class.

But I cannot see any datasets on our server with that name when I login
using web interface.

Does anyone know why I am getting this error?

Thanks
~LLoyD~
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