Custom Query (2152 matches)

Reported by dread, 4 years ago.

Cost - 2 days

Search interface has new options to filter and sort the results by the date the package has been last modified in ckan. Search options are included in both Web UI and Search API.

The filter specifies a range of dates. The results can be sorted by ascending or descending dates. The last modification date is surfaced in the package.

Example search parameters:

Reported by wwaites, 4 years ago.

The CKAN instance on data.gov.uk serves invalid URIs out of its API.

For example the following can be found,

​http://uk.sitestat.com/homeoffice/rds/s?rds.hosb0509tabsxls&ns_type=pdf&ns_url=[http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/hosb0509tabs.xls]

In this URI, the : and / characters after the ? in the query part are invalid according to section 3.4 of RFC2396

Also URIs are not stripped of whitespace at the end.

This causes problems when other software with a more correct interpretation of what a valid URI is attempts to consume data from CKAN. In this instance the Talis triplestore complains about such URIs.

"Be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send" would seem apt.

Actions

• Validation of urls as part of form entry or data loading
  • Need to consider situation where this should happen out-of-band (i.e. we allow load even with invalid data and then flag bad dates in separate validation process). In general doubtful that we should do this here because url invalidity is such a big deal
• This code should support analysis of existing data so we can go through existing database and find invalid urls
  • Also useful to have this so we can do out of band validation

Reported by cygri, 3 years ago.

The field for entering the format of a resource should have autocomplete, populated from all the values that have already been entered in this field for any resource.

This would help improve data quality and consistency.