[ECODP-dev] Fwd: ckan issue when reusing uri's

Tue Nov 12 11:28:27 UTC 2013

Hi John,

exactly that we are doing. In the attached docs you find the 2 jsons that
create, and then later on we try the update and then we get an validation
error: URL already in use.

Bert

2013/11/12 John Glover <john.glover at okfn.org>

> Hi Bert,
>
> I do not think that this is the case. You should be able to update them by
> making package_update API calls, is this not working?
>
> Regards,
> John
>
>
> On 12 November 2013 11:59, Bert Van Nuffelen <
> bert.van.nuffelen at tenforce.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> The problem is that there seems to be a different in behaviour which
>> ultimately leads to an unable to edit situation.
>>
>> package 1: for publisher P1, dataset name N1 and url *URL1*
>> package 2: for publisher P2, dataset name N2 and url *URL1*
>>
>> you can create package 1 successfully, then you can create package 2
>> successfully, but then you *cannot* update any of them because of the
>> validation rule.
>>
>> So 2 'valid' posts leads to a 'kind of deadlock' situation.
>>
>> kind regards,
>>
>> Bert
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/11/12 John Glover <john.glover at okfn.org>
>>
>>> Hi Bert,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure that I understand: why would you expect the package_create
>>> validation to fail the first time, assuming that the two names do not
>>> already exist?
>>>
>>> If you instead want to change (edit) an existing dataset, you must make
>>> a package_update call (which should not fail if the name exists, the
>>> opposite in fact).
>>>
>>> If you want to rerun a package_create call, you must delete and purge
>>> the datasets first.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12 November 2013 10:56, Bert Van Nuffelen <
>>> bert.van.nuffelen at tenforce.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi John and Darwin,
>>>>
>>>> We run our rdf2ckan tests again and we spotted the next situation. Can
>>>> you verify if our analysis is correct and if the validation rule in the
>>>> create is not active as we suspect.
>>>>
>>>> Hereunder is the problem description:
>>>>
>>>> When running rdf2ckan tests, I found an issue in ckan: I have two
>>>> packages, try-hijack1.zip and try-hijack2.zip that are uploaded to ckan.
>>>> Both packages have the same uri field (called url in the ckan json). They
>>>> are different packages (with a different name in JSON) and they also have
>>>> different publishers.
>>>>
>>>> I run the tests two times. The first time, the packages are created.
>>>> The second time, the packages both return a CKAN validation error, saying
>>>> that the URL is already in use.
>>>>
>>>> This means I can no longer edit the packages now. In fact, the error in
>>>> the validation is expected, but it should already fire the first time I run
>>>> the packages. As you said, the problem is probably that the ckan validation
>>>> only occurs during the update procedure and not during the create procedure.
>>>>
>>>> I have included the reports from the two runs and the jsons for the
>>>> packages with this mail.
>>>>
>>>> kind regards,
>>>>
>>>> Bert
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Bert Van Nuffelen
>>>>
>>>> Semantic Technologies Software Architect at TenForce
>>>> www.tenforce.be
>>>>
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