[ckan-discuss] Odd error message from API

[William Waites]

Related to this, what of handling of the revision id? I think
(1) it needs to be required (not sure if it is at the moment)
and (2) if a POST arrives with a missing revision id or one
that doesn't match the current revision the POST should fail.

Cheers,
-w


* [2011-04-01 10:51:36 +0200] David Read <david.read at okfn.org> écrit:

] 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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