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Bug Reports?
It seems that this application error may be related to the fact that I'm being redirected from
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/7712/...
to
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/simal/...
which is then failing. I'm thinking the redirection should only occur if there's no api_key in the url.
Hi Stuart,
The application error and the redirect are both caused by the fact that your URL is badly formed -- our web server can't parse it properly, so it doesn't know that you are trying to access the API.
The key is that you have a & where you need a ?
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/simal/contributors/165705.xml?api_key=...&v=1
The image URL bug is a real one, and a lame bug at that. I've deployed the fix.
[ paginated languages ] Gotcha. In a way, it's good to see that my Perl module is getting sufficiently complete as to begin to uncover oopsies in the API. :-)
I've finished the first cut of my ohloh->RDF xsl stylesheet[1], it's still very basic and only maps data with direct mappings in DOAP/FOAF. This means that it throws away everything that makes ohloh special, but I thought I'd get the interoperable basics out of the way first.
I have two quick questions:
(a) I was expecting to see license in the project information. I can't see any mapping between licenses and projects in the API at all. Am I missing something?
(b) Is there a reason that ContributorFact and ContributorLanguageFact don't reference the project_id of their subject project? I know the project is in the URL, but in XSLT 1.0 this is completely inaccessible.
cheers
stuart
[1] http://lists.usefulinc.com/pipermail/doap-interest/2008-May/000320.html / http://lists.usefulinc.com/pipermail/doap-interest/attachments/20080510/96570445/ohloh.bin
Hi Stuart,
(a) There is no license information in the API yet. There's no technical reason; it's just a matter of implementation time.
(b) ContributorFacts and related computed metrics do not belong directly to a project. They belong to an analysis, which belongs to a project. Yes, that's splitting hairs, but that's how our data model is set up. If required, we could possibly denormalize the XML data schema and add the project_id to the output.
About http://www.ohloh.net/languages.xml, now the results are indeed paginated (yay!), but the grand total of entries () is still reported as 10 (darn).
Hi Yanick,
Yes, this was a simple mistake somebody (certainly not me) made when we switched to a paginated response.
I've deployed the fix.
Thanks for reporting the bug,
Robin
Yup, everything seems to work now. Thanks!
happily hops to go and release a new #www-ohloh-api version