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

Thu May 30 09:11:31 BST 2013

Hi,

it might be just a typo and not helpful anyway. But as far as I
know with "api_url = "http://{host}/api/action..." you're calling
API version #1.  You'll need to specify version 3 explicitly
(host/api/3/...).

But anyway, package deletion works fine here even with API #1.
You might have a look at ckanclient
(https://github.com/okfn/ckanclient). It uses API #1.

regards
hendrik

--On 2013-05-29 16:53, John Mrziglod wrote:
> 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})))
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> 
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