[ckan-dev] New CKAN API JAVA client‏

Tue Nov 17 09:30:26 UTC 2015

Hi David,

> On 17 Nov 2015, at 09:20, David Leoni <david.leoni at unitn.it> wrote:
> For reading operations, we used it in a couple of other projects (Ckanalyze and OpenDataRise) and also received a couple of pull requests. Sonatype gives us about 10 unique ip downloads per month. Here there is a rough integration report on 100 catalogs around the world: http://opendatatrentino.github.io/jackan/reports/latest/
> On average each read test passes in 60% of the catalogs, probably ckan versions < 2.2 are not completely well supported yet.
> 
> For writing operations, as we just released the first version (0.4.2) with writing support, we can't report real-world usage, although there is an extensive test suite (100+ tests for writing), so if bugs come out it should be relatively easy to find the cause and fix them.
> 
>> and likely to be maintained?  I'd be happy to update the README on the old one to point to your repo if so.
> Until March 2016, I can devote working time to maintain it. After, we need the crystal sphere. In the worst scenario, if there are easy bugs to be fixed or pull requests to be reviewed I can devote some weekend time to maintain the library.  Project is quite documented (manual + javadoc), it shouldn't be hard for eventual new maintainers to understand the codebase.

That's great, if even one person is looking at the code and changing it, it's doing better than the other one.  I'll update the README at the old lib to point to Jackan..

Thanks

Ross