http://localhost/ticket/1711 <ul><li>On the resources tab, there's a "Check Resources" button which, when clicked makes an ajax request with the list of URLs entered by the user. </li></ul><p> </p> <ul><li>The server checka each link for errors and header information about the linked resource. (Using ckanext/archiver/tasks.py:link_checker()). </li></ul><p> </p> <ul><li>The server returns a list of dicts (json), containing information about the linked resource, and the client uses that to: </li></ul><ul><li>populate the format field of each resource </li></ul><p> </p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p> The (guessed) 'file_extension' populates the '<span class="underline">format' field. If it's 'htm' or 'html', then we assume it's a listing page, and so don't populate the format field with 'htm' or 'html'. </span></p> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p> </p> <ul><li>provide feedback if a URL appears to be invalid </li></ul><p> </p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p> If the URL doesn't appear to be a URL at all, or returns a HTTP error, or times-out, then URL field is highlighted in red to indicate it's a bad URL. A tooltip shows the error message to the user. </p> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p> </p> <ul><li>[Optional] provide feedback if a URL appears to point to "Additional Information" - ie the Resource should be entered under "Additional Resources", rather than "Timeseries" or "Individual" datasets. </li></ul><p> Analysis and further description on etherpad: <a class="ext-link" href="http://ckan.okfnpad.org/dgu-package-form"><span class="icon">​</span>http://ckan.okfnpad.org/dgu-package-form</a>? [Section I] </p> en-us http://assets.okfn.org/p/ckan/img/ckan_logo_shortname.png http://localhost/ticket/1711 Trac 0.12.3 icmurray Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:05:57 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1711#comment:1 http://localhost/ticket/1711#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>new</em> to <em>closed</em> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> set to <em>fixed</em> </li> <li><strong>description</strong> modified (<a href="/ticket/1711?action=diff&amp;version=1">diff</a>) </li> <li><strong>milestone</strong> changed from <em>ckan-v1.7</em> to <em>current-ckan-sprint-2012-03-19</em> </li> </ul> Ticket