[ckan-dev] Using CKAN's API via PHP.

Henrik Aagaard Jørgensen henrikaagaardjorgensen at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 08:22:10 UTC 2014


Just saw the doc's and apparently it is not possible to access private
datasets via the API with datastore_search_sql:
"DataStore resource that belong to a private CKAN resource cannot be
searched with this action."

How unfortunate.

Sorry for the trouble.


2014-09-29 10:19 GMT+02:00 Paolo Mainardi <paolo at twinbit.it>:

> As is written in the wiki:
> https://github.com/ckan/ckan/wiki/CKAN-API-Clients you can use those
> clients:
>
> - Ckan_client-PHP: https://github.com/jeffreybarke/Ckan_client-PHP
> - PHP CKAN client - from Silex. Uses Guzzle for the HTTP. Packaged using
> Composer; also on Github. Covers a number of action functions for
> reading/writing packages, resources, etc. Comes with tests (
> https://packagist.org/packages/silex/ckan_client)
>
> Thanks,
> P.
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Henrik Aagaard Jørgensen <
> henrikaagaardjorgensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm trying to use CKAN's API via PHP.
>>
>> I'm using cURL and are allowed if the dataset is not private. But when
>> trying to access a private dataset I get access denied.
>>
>> CKAN is version 2.2 with datastore installed.
>>
>> Running this code fails with response from the CKAN API with
>> "{'permissions': ['Not authorized to read resource.']}":
>>
>> -----
>>
>> $sql = 'SELECT * FROM "656eedf2-8648-442d-90fa-4500fc49eb4a"';
>>
>> $ch = curl_init();
>> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "
>> http://localhost/api/action/datastore_search_sql");
>> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode(array('sql' => $sql)));
>> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
>> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Authorization'array(' =>
>> 'b5256727-2711-4ac5-9009-cfc155ec13a2'));
>> $response = curl_exec($ch);
>> curl_close($ch);
>>
>> var_dump(json_decode($response));
>>
>> -----
>>
>> When I use the code on public datasets it works. The API-key I'm using is
>> the same as the user who created it, and I'm able to see it via the web
>> interface.
>>
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