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

Tue Nov 12 11:37:05 UTC 2013

Hi Bert,

This is quite strange, the package_update validation is working as expected
here for me. We can test again on the test server when it is updated (I saw
your message about requesting this, thanks).

Regards,
John

On 12 November 2013 12:28, Bert Van Nuffelen <bert.van.nuffelen at tenforce.com
> wrote:

> 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
>>>>>
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