Hi,
I've been have some troubles using the groovy http builder to queue a
download. I've eventually realised that what is happening is that the
GBIF API is returning a download key as a simple text string but setting
the content type to application/json. This causes difficulties with the
http builder, since by default it tries to be helpful and parse the
result as JSON. It then throws an exception, since it tries to interpret
something like 0065397-160910150852091 as a number. (The
/occurrence/count path also just returns a count, but this is correctly
interpreted as just being an integer.)
I've worked around this problem, but could future versions of the API
always return valid JSON for application/json content?
Doug
