API error, not accepting marc21_110

[jokke]

We have been using the API to create data sets. We used to be able to set the author's organisation using the marc21_110 field. However, now the server throws an error:

Trying to sync a record with the organization set to UNDP, but your system does not accept it. The error is "error": {"marc21_110": ["Failed to decode JSON string"], "__type": "Validation Error"}}

Can you please advise?

[arky]

@jokke Here are some comments from @gtkChop on Gitter.

"Looks like something wrong with the json syntax
If I get the data for creating a dataset then, I can debug on this.
marc21_110 - is just a fluent_text field. May be non utf-8 character. Not sure, need to have a look at the data to figure out where the error is.

Also need to give content type as utf-8
if thats missing."

@gtkChop Could you please help debug this issue. Thanks!

[ss-bhat]

@jokke Could you please send me the JSON data that you are using to create a dataset? Thanks

[jokke]

Yes it is UTF8, in fact only ASCII characters are used for this particular example. The JSON is as follows:

{"odm_copyright":"To be determined","metadata_modified":"2020-01-12T00:19:47","version":"1.0","author_email":"laofab.repo@gmail.com","marc21_110":"UNDP","maintainer":"LaoFAB","odm_spatial_range":["la"],"odm_keywords":"HDI, poverty, inequality, Country Data, Gender & Ethnicity, General Economic Development, Poverty","author":"LaoFAB","name":"laofab-2373-1","marc21_260c":"2013","license_title":"License unspecified","title":"Lao PDR - Explanatory Notes for the 2013 Human Development Report","maintainer_email":"laofab.repo@gmail.com","odm_language":["English"],"document_type":"reports_journal_articles_and_research_papers","metadata_created":"2020-01-12T00:19:47","license_id":"unspecified","title_translated":{"en":"Lao PDR - Explanatory Notes for the 2013 Human Development Report"},"url":"http://www.laofab.org/document/view/2373","owner_org":"laofab","taxonomy":["Censuses"],"type":"library_record"}

[jokke]

Response code is 409 and response data:

{"help": "https://data.opendevelopmentmekong.net/api/3/action/help_show?name=package_create", "success": false, "error": {"marc21_110": ["Failed to decode JSON string"], "__type": "Validation Error"}}

[jokke]

@gtkChop any ideas around this?

[arky]

@gtkChop Any solution for this issue? Really appreciate any workaround so @jokke could not be blocked by this error. Thanks!

[ss-bhat]

@arky @jokke

Please see below changes to be made in the JSON data.

• owner_org: Incorrect owner_org (laofab) does not exists.
• marc21_110: Field marc21_110 should be of the format "marc21_110": {"en": "UNDP")

Once you make the necessary changes to the above field record creation should be successful. Thanks

Please let me know if you encounter any issues. Thanks

[jokke]

Thanks for looking into this.

The format of the marc21_110 must be a recent change as the syntax I showed has been working. How do you announce these changes?

Regarding the owner_org, I think this was a typo, it should have been 'laofab-organization'. However, my user is not allowed to set this: "Access denied: User joakim not authorized to add dataset to this organization". Any ideas on how to overcome this?

[ss-bhat]

@jokke Yeah, marc21_110 has been made multilingual. Hence language tag is required.

Announcing the change, I am not sure about how this is done. I think @prustar or @arky might be able to help you with this.

Access Denied:
This happens when the user tries to update/create a package to the organization which the user doesn't have access to.

Organization admin can add a user to the organization with suitable rights (member, editor or admin). Go to page /organization (select your organization) -> Manage -> Members -> add user.

Hope this helps. Thanks

[jokke]

Thanks for the pointer @gtkChop . I can see that my user ("joakim") is a member of the LaoFAB organization with the role "admin". So I am not sure why I am not authorized to add datasets.... Any idea?

[ss-bhat]

@jokke are you passing the credentials along with the request.

It is recommended to pass a request along with API-KEY as credentials.

Please see the CKAN docs for the reference:
https://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-2.7.3/api/

Thanks

[jokke]

@gtkChop I am using the API-KEY, not username/password.

[ss-bhat]

Could you please give me an organization URL and your username? Thanks. @jokke