[ckan-discuss] ckan atom feed and links

Fri May 7 15:03:25 BST 2010

On 4 May 2010 12:53, Peter Krantz <peter.krantz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/5/4 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>:
>>
>> What's the general spec with feeds: are relative
>> urls supposed to be supported or not (if not, we should *definitely*
>> fix this asap).
>>
>
> In the Atom syndication format the href attribute of the
> atomLink-element is an IRI. I think it is OK for it to be relative,
> but in my experience the result can be shaky. Maybe the pragmatic
> approach here is to make it absolute? Also, Atom entry elements may be
> stored by the client and could end up without info about the base URL.

So what we are doing *is* valid but it might be better to have
absolute urls. Issue for that is we need to configure it somewhere so
different instances work correctly.

> If CKAN has the ambition to be a central access point, maybe there
> could be permanent URLs to packages in the form
> http://ckan.net/revision/read/da0c90ef-5dca-4bb7-921e-bdbc57b505fa"?
> If entered in the browser it could redirect to the appropriate country
> version?

We certainly want to have permanent urls on individual instances.
Whether ckan.net wants to aggregate every individual country instance
data in one place I'm not sure (pros and cons ...).

Rufus