[API-users] /species route question/possible problem

Markus Döring mdoering at gbif.org
Thu Feb 8 11:11:25 CET 2018


Hi again,

I just checked code and it was done intentionally as our API interface is defined for all or just one dataset key:
https://github.com/gbif/gbif-api/blob/master/src/main/java/org/gbif/api/service/checklistbank/NameUsageService.java#L82

I propose to throw an IllegalRequest in case of more than one datasetKey for the time being. 
If you want this to be changed please log an API issue or enhancement request in the portal.

Cheers,
Markus

> On 8. Feb 2018, at 11:04, Markus Döring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Scott,
> indeed it only picks up one of the parameters. Looks like an oversight and probably one that is existing elsewhere too then ;)
> Ive logged an issue: https://github.com/gbif/checklistbank/issues/54
> 
> Markus
> 
> 
> 
>> On 7. Feb 2018, at 22:37, Scott Chamberlain <myrmecocystus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi folks, 
>> 
>> Seems like the `/species` route is possibly misbehaving in certain cases. A user of rgbif reports https://github.com/ropensci/rgbif/issues/287 unexpected results. The same calls but with curl:
>> 
>> curl  'https://api.gbif.org/v1/species?datasetKey=73605f3a-af85-4ade-bbc5-522bfb90d847&datasetKey=d7c60346-44b6-400d-ba27-8d3fbeffc8a5' | jq .results\[].datasetKey | wc -l
>>       10
>> 
>> curl  'https://api.gbif.org/v1/species?datasetKey=73605f3a-af85-4ade-bbc5-522bfb90d847' | jq .results\[].datasetKey | wc -l
>>       10
>> 
>> curl  'https://api.gbif.org/v1/species?datasetKey=d7c60346-44b6-400d-ba27-8d3fbeffc8a5' | jq .results\[].datasetKey | wc -l
>>        7
>> 
>> We'd expect the first curl request to return 17 results given the results of the datasetKey's individually. Not sure what is going on there. This route does appear to accept multiple instances of the same parameter, but not sure why the top curl call there doesn't return 17 results?
>> 
>> Best, Scott
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