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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Any progress on this issue?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I’m feeling pretty incompetent at the moment as I have totally failed in updating one meta-data field without wiping all
the others. I can update all metadata of a post with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">curl -X PUT -i -u myuser:mypass --data-binary "@test.xml" -H 'Content-Type: application/vnd.eprints.data+xml' https://test.slub.se/id/eprint/10668
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">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;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Regards,<o:p></o:p></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"> eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>rsdoiel@caltech.edu<br>
<b>Sent:</b> den 10 januari 2018 17:54<br>
<b>To:</b> Christopher Gutteridge <cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk><br>
<b>Cc:</b> eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [EP-tech] Q: Updating fields using the REST API<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All the best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Robert Doiel<o:p></o:p></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:<o:p></o:p></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!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I'm guessing you can get the syntax via: GET /authors/rest/eprint/1/creators<o:p></o:p></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">CRUD operations on the EPrints 3.3.15 REST API<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Happy New years everyone,<o:p></o:p></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).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'd like to update the value of the ID field for /rest/eprint/#####/creators/#####/id.txt<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">and when I try to put (id.txt currently is empty) I get an error<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">like<o:p></o:p></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">
http://lemurprints.local/authors/rest/eprint/1/creators/1/id.txt</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Trying 172.28.128.4...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * TCP_NODELAY set<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Connected to lemurprints.local (172.28.128.4) port 80 (#0)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Server auth using Basic with user 'epautomation'<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> > PUT /authors/rest/eprint/1/creators/1/id.txt HTTP/1.1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> > Host: lemurprints.local<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> > Authorization: Basic ZXBhdXRvbWF0aW9uOnRlc3RyZXBv<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> > User-Agent: curl/7.57.0<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * upload completely sent off: 9 out of 9 bytes<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> < HTTP/1.1 501 Method PUT Not Implemented<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> < Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 23:36:53 GMT<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> < Server: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Closing connection 0<o:p></o:p></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).<o:p></o:p></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">
http://lemurprints.local/authors/rest/eprint/1/refereed.txt</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Trying 172.28.128.4...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * TCP_NODELAY set<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Connected to lemurprints.local (172.28.128.4) port 80 (#0)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Server auth using Basic with user 'epautomation'<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> > PUT /authors/rest/eprint/1/refereed.txt HTTP/1.1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> > Host: lemurprints.local<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> > Authorization: Basic ZXBhdXRvbWF0aW9uOnRlc3RyZXBv<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * upload completely sent off: 4 out of 4 bytes<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> < HTTP/1.1 200 OK<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> < Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 23:42:56 GMT<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Connection #0 to host lemurprints.local left intact<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am probably missing something obvious but any help would be appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Robert<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre><span style="color:#888888">Christopher Gutteridge -- <a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg" target="_blank">http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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