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

[Scott Chamberlain]

Hi Markus,

Thanks very much for your help on this.  That seems like a good solution.

Does the only 1 instance of a parameter per request apply to the other
parameters on that route as well?
https://www.gbif.org/developer/species#nameUsages  name, sourceId, language

Best, Scott

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:11 AM Markus Döring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote:

> 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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