[ckan-discuss] Delete packages with api - 403 error

Wed May 29 15:53:04 BST 2013

Hi Sean Hammond,

I consider your warning that API 1 is deprecated so i write a short program with API 3 (i used the example from http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-2.0/api.html):

#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib2
import urllib
import json
import pprint

def call_action (url,api_key,data_string):

    # Make the HTTP request.
    request = urllib2.Request(url)
    request.add_header('Authorization', api_key)
    response = urllib2.urlopen(request,data_string)
    assert response.code == 200

    # Use the json module to load CKAN's response into a dictionary.
    response_dict = json.loads(response.read())

    # Check the contents of the response.
    assert response_dict['success'] is True
    result = response_dict['result']
    pprint.pprint(result)

ip_host = 'xxxHostNamexxx.org'
api_key = 'xxx'
api_url = "http://{host}/api/action".format(host=ip_host)

# Use the json module to dump a dictionary to a string for posting.
dataset_name    = 'data-explorer6'
data_string = urllib.quote(json.dumps({
    'name': dataset_name,
    'extras':[
        {'key':'Sprache','value':'Englisch'},
        {'key':'2. Sprache','value':'Deutsch'}
]}))

## Create the package:
print '# create the package:'
call_action(api_url+'/package_create',api_key,data_string)

## delete the package:
print '\n# delete the package:'
call_action(api_url+'/package_delete',api_key,urllib.quote(json.dumps({'id': dataset_name})))

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Unfortunately the same problem and error message occured. 
Here is my output and the error message:

# create the package:
{u'author': None,
 u'author_email': None,
 u'extras': [{u'__extras': {u'package_id': u'f591cba3-0ed5-4ac5-a19c-9d41edd047f5',
                            u'revision_id': u'7e5e45dd-ad47-420e-82df-ca78eb7ca8ea'},
              u'key': u'2. Sprache',
              u'value': u'Deutsch'},
             {u'__extras': {u'package_id': u'f591cba3-0ed5-4ac5-a19c-9d41edd047f5',
                            u'revision_id': u'7e5e45dd-ad47-420e-82df-ca78eb7ca8ea'},
              u'key': u'Sprache',
              u'value': u'Englisch'}],
 u'groups': [],
 u'id': u'f591cba3-0ed5-4ac5-a19c-9d41edd047f5',
 u'isopen': False,
 u'license_id': None,
 u'license_title': None,
 u'maintainer': None,
 u'maintainer_email': None,
 u'metadata_created': u'2013-05-29T14:35:39.499009',
 u'metadata_modified': u'2013-05-29T14:35:39.499009',
 u'name': u'data-explorer5',
 u'notes': None,
 u'num_resources': 0,
 u'num_tags': 0,
 u'organization': None,
 u'owner_org': None,
 u'private': False,
 u'relationships_as_object': [],
 u'relationships_as_subject': [],
 u'resources': [],
 u'revision_id': u'7e5e45dd-ad47-420e-82df-ca78eb7ca8ea',
 u'revision_timestamp': u'2013-05-29T14:35:39.499009',
 u'state': u'active',
 u'tags': [],
 u'title': u'data-explorer5',
 u'tracking_summary': {u'recent': 0, u'total': 0},
 u'type': u'dataset',
 u'url': None,
 u'version': None}

# delete the package:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ckan_minimal.py", line 42, in <module>
    call_action(api_url+'/package_delete',api_key,urllib.quote(json.dumps({'id': dataset_name})))
  File "ckan_minimal.py", line 12, in call_action
    response = urllib2.urlopen(request,data_string)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 397, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 510, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 435, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 518, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden