[ckan-dev] Creating a Datastore resource via the API

Thu Mar 13 10:23:32 UTC 2014

did you also try a package_id like "jaystest" and then made it more complex 
(capitals, spaces and finally a ' ) until it breaks?

On Thursday 13 March 2014 22:53:08 Jay Daley wrote:
> Hi
> 
> As I understand it from the documentation I should be able to create a
> Datastore resource by specifying "resource" and a dictionary that has the
> package_id and not specify a resource_id .  e.g.
> 
> 	{ "resource" : { "package_id" : "Jay's Test" } }
> 
> which I'm using against http://demo.ckan.org/api/3/action/datastore_create 
> with a POST and my API key.
> 
> However the error message I'm getting seems to contradict that:
> 
> 	"success": false, "error": {"message": "Missig id, can not get Resource
> object", "__type": "Validation Error"}
> 
> Have I misunderstood the documentation?
> 
> cheers
> Jay
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