Why do publishers show as License Id: None

[Bjwebb]

http://iati.github.io/IATI-Dashboard/license/None.html

[stevieflow]

... and why is UNOPS listed with 10 files, when they have 150?

[Bjwebb]

"Files" there is the number of files under a given license.

[stevieflow]

But that cant be possible ? The licence can only be set at the publisher level - packages inherit the licence from the parent?

This is true of the web entry / edit and CSV upload. Is it the case that a licence can be edited for any packages via the API?

[Bjwebb]

As far as I can tell it's a problem with the CKAN API sometimes (but not consistently) returning the license_id as null (which python interprets as None).

e.g. for oxfamindia, the call I use http://iatiregistry.org/api/3/action/group_package_show?id=oxfamindia shows license_id: null,. However, If I query the package directly - http://www.iatiregistry.org/api/3/action/package_show?id=oxfamindia-in - I get license_id: "notspecified",.

[stevieflow]

I wonder if @amercader could take a look...

[amercader]

I didn't know about group_package_show! It seems that the serialized datasets it's returning don't come from the search index so the field values are different. I recommend using package_search with the appropriate filter, which will be much faster anyway:

http://www.iatiregistry.org/api/3/action/package_search?fq=organization:oxfamindia

ckan/ckan#1557

[Bjwebb]

I've updated the code to use package_search.