[ckan-dev] ckanext-archiver

Mon May 5 06:28:52 UTC 2014

I see, thank you guys for the explanation!

On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Fabrizio,
> IIRC the extension updates the resource with some metadata like
> last_modified, size and hash depending on the last archiving.
>
> Adrià
> On 3 May 2014 09:01, "Fabrizio Fornari" <ckanappoggio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I see, but I don't get why it updates the CKAN resources. In
>> /ckanext-archiver/ckanext/archiver/task.py <https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-archiver/blob/master/ckanext/archiver/tasks.py>
>>  there is _update_resources that calls resource_update through the CKAN
>> api.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Nigel Babu <nigel.babu at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The purpose of the extension is to archive resources to a different
>>> place. Since ckanext-archiver does basic archiving, it's used by other
>>> extensions that need to act on the downloaded resource.
>>>
>>> Nigel Babu
>>> Developer, Open Knowledge
>>>
>>>
>>> On 29 April 2014 21:24, Fabrizio Fornari <ckanappoggio at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> can anyone explain me what actually ckanext-archiver does?
>>>>
>>>> From the documentation:
>>>> "The CKAN Archiver Extension provides a set of Celery tasks for
>>>> downloading and saving CKAN resources. It can be configured to run
>>>> automatically, saving any new resources that are added to a CKAN instance
>>>> (and saving any resources when their URL is changed). It can also be run
>>>> manually from the command line in order to archive resources for specific
>>>> datasets, or to archive all resources in a CKAN instance."
>>>>
>>>> I need ckanext-archiver for using the extension qa (ok) but I don't get
>>>> why the archiver should download, update resources and stuff like that,
>>>> which is the purpose of this extension?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>>
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