[ckan-discuss] Odd error message from API

Fri Apr 1 09:51:36 BST 2011

Hi Chris,

This week, we've changed our API subtly in its handling of 'license'
and 'license_id' fields. ckan.net is running our beta release at the
moment, and it's useful to catch these issues before it is released
elsewhere.

The reasoning behind it is: now you can simply GET a package, edit it
and PUSH it. When you GET a package, the 'license' field is the plain
text name of the license, and 'license_id' is for the short-code.
Previously you could set either to be the ID and it worked, but to
avoid confusion you now have to set the 'license_id' field (as per the
API spec, I'm afraid...). It could be more clever and permissive, but
I fear that might just serve to confuse even more people.

And it looks like the error message has a problem - it should point
you to the 'license' field being the issue. Cheers for the heads up on
this.

Anyway, do let us know if changing 'license' to 'license_id' solves it.

Dave

On 31 March 2011 19:13, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> It's saying "Package format incorrect: Key %r is readonly - do not include
> in the package or leave it unchanged."
>
> On this data:
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/dataset/places.ckan.json
>
> I don't understand!
>
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