<div dir="ltr">I finally gave up on the REST update and I was working on and just copied the changes to the server and used the import tool (there is an option to update the record instead of creating a new one) in the top level bin folder of the EPrints3 repository.<div><br></div><div>Overall I have found the REST API works great for reads once you have the permissions right. It worked fine for simple fields but I couldn't get it to work for complex fields, e.g. I was trying to update the author (creators>items>item) id and custom orcid fields in our repository. It could be pilot error on my part, am only an EPrints novice.</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry,</div><div><br></div><div>Robert</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 6:22 AM, Christer Enkvist <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christer.enkvist@slu.se" target="_blank">christer.enkvist@slu.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546a">I’m feeling pretty incompetent at the moment as I have totally failed in updating one meta-data field without wiping all
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546a">curl -X PUT -i -u myuser:mypass --data-binary "@test.xml" -H 'Content-Type: application/vnd.eprints.data+<wbr>xml' <a href="https://test.slub.se/id/eprint/10668" target="_blank">https://test.slub.se/id/<wbr>eprint/10668</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546a">but it seems to be a DELETE and then POST process. Any suggestions on how to, for example, update the title field would
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546a">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.<wbr>soton.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">eprints-tech-bounces@<wbr>ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> den 10 januari 2018 17:54<br>
<b>To:</b> Christopher Gutteridge <<a href="mailto:cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [EP-tech] Q: Updating fields using the REST API<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, I'll try that next. I've started to read through the Perl (I'm a bit rusty) to understand the details too. When I solve it I'll post something to the list hear as I notice this crops up everyone year or two.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:27 AM, Christopher Gutteridge <<a href="mailto:cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>I think you might have to put a whole field at a time, but it's many years since I've looked at this so it may have changed!<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>I'm guessing you can get the syntax via: GET /authors/rest/eprint/1/<wbr>creators<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 08/01/2018 23:46, <a href="mailto:rsdoiel@caltech.edu" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Happy New years everyone,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a question about using the REST API to update an EPrints collection (EPrints 3.3.15).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'd like to update the value of the ID field for /rest/eprint/#####/creators/##<wbr>###/id.txt<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">and when I try to put (id.txt currently is empty) I get an error<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">like<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> curl -v -u epautomation:testrepo -d "Moore-R-L" -X PUT <a href="http://lemurprints.local/authors/rest/eprint/1/creators/1/id.txt" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Trying 172.28.128.4...<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * TCP_NODELAY set<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Connected to lemurprints.local (172.28.128.4) port 80 (#0)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Server auth using Basic with user 'epautomation'<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> > PUT /authors/rest/eprint/1/<wbr>creators/1/id.txt HTTP/1.1<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> > Host: lemurprints.local<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * upload completely sent off: 9 out of 9 bytes<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Closing connection 0<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Doing a similar command to changed the "referred" field does work (flipping the value from TRUE to FALSE).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> curl -v -u epautomation:testrepo -d "TRUE" -X PUT <a href="http://lemurprints.local/authors/rest/eprint/1/refereed.txt" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Trying 172.28.128.4...<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Connected to lemurprints.local (172.28.128.4) port 80 (#0)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Server auth using Basic with user 'epautomation'<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> > PUT /authors/rest/eprint/1/<wbr>refereed.txt HTTP/1.1<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Connection #0 to host lemurprints.local left intact<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am probably missing something obvious but any help would be appreciated.<u></u><u></u></p>
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