[ckan-discuss] relationships between datasets

Wed Oct 9 15:45:05 BST 2013

Thanks Jan!

Mark

On 09/10/2013, Jan Vansteenlandt <jan at okfn.be> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've added an example to the wiki of the relationships, telling that the
> example command works for version 2 of the API, and added an example that
> works with version 3 of the API. Now people without knowlegde of what API
> is supported in their CKAN instance will at least have one command that
> works ;).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jan Vansteenlandt
> OKFN - Belgium
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Mark Wainwright
> <mark.wainwright at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> Great news that you managed to piece the information together. The
>> wiki is a community resource and it would be wonderful if you could
>> take edit the page on relationships to reflect what you found.
>>
>> If you're feeling really generous with your time you could even make a
>> pull request to the docs. See
>>
>> http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/contributing.html#writing-documentation
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> On 09/10/2013, Jan Vansteenlandt <vansteenlandt.jan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi everybody
>> >
>> > I've fixed it myself (or found a solution at least). The thing is that
>> I've
>> > consulted the same documentation you provided me Mark, but apparently
>> that
>> > doesn't work for my version (2.0.1).
>> > What does work however the third version of the API of which I wasn't
>> quite
>> > aware, I had to look through documentation of 1.5 because the latest
>> didnt
>> > provide sufficient information about what JSON post message is
>> > expected.
>> >
>> > thanks anyway for the link, perhaps this is a call for the maintainer
>> > of
>> > the ckan/wiki/Dataset-relationships to actually provide information to
>> what
>> > versions are eligible for the example command displayed on the wiki.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >
>> > Jan
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Mark Wainwright
>> > <mark.wainwright at okfn.org>wrote:
>> >
>> >> I've no idea what the answer is but I do know of the existence of this
>> >> wiki page - not sure if it is at all useful:
>> >>
>> >> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/wiki/Dataset-relationships
>> >>
>> >> Mark
>> >>
>> >> On 07/10/2013, Jan Vansteenlandt <jan at okfn.be> wrote:
>> >> > Hi all,
>> >> >
>> >> > I've been trying to create a relationship between two datasets, so
>> >> > far
>> >> > using the documentation I haven't been able to do so.
>> >> >
>> >> > I use this documentation page:
>> >> > http://docs.ckan.org/ru/latest/legacy-api.html and my curl requests
>> are
>> >> of
>> >> > this kind:
>> >> >
>> >> >  curl -X PUT -v
>> >> http://ckanhost/api/rest/dataset/UUID_1/linked_fromUUID_2
>> >> > -d
>> >> > '{"subject":"resource name", "object":"resource name",
>> >> > "type":"linked_from", "comment":"this is a test relationship"}' -H
>> >> > "Authorization: MY AUTH KEY"
>> >> >
>> >> > If i use PUT I get a message that "This relationship between the
>> >> > packages
>> >> > was not found." If I use POST it says "the inputfield id was not
>> >> expected",
>> >> > even though I havent passed an id field in my json ...  Any thoughts
>> on
>> >> > this?
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Best regards,
>> >> >
>> >> > Jan Vansteenlandt
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >
>> > Jan Vansteenlandt
>> >
>>
>>
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>>
>> Jan Vansteenlandt
>>
>

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