[ckan-discuss] Odd error message from API

[David Read]

Will,

I'm intrigued - why would you want to set the revision id? And surely
that's a red flag for database design if a user cares so much about
the actual value of the database key?

Dave

On 1 April 2011 11:52, William Waites <ww at styx.org> wrote:
> 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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