problems with ~/.ckanclientrc

[timrdf]

Greetings,

I'm having some trouble getting ~/.ckanclientrc to work as https://github.com/okfn/ckanclient suggests.

While the following code works fine, it does not work when I remove the api_key argument -- even if I have specified the key in ~/.ckanclientrc (shown below).

How can I get the CkanClient to use the API key given in ~/.ckanclientrc?

Thanks for much!
Tim Lebo

import ckanclient

# Instantiate the CKAN client.
ckan = ckanclient.CkanClient(base_location='http://datahub.io/api',
                            api_key='my-key') ## 403 error if this argument is removed (why isn't ~/.ckanclientrc taking over?).

# Get the details of a package.
ckan.package_entity_get('instance-hub-fiscal-years')
package_entity = ckan.last_message
package_entity['maintainer'] = 'TWC RPI'

print package_entity

ckan.package_entity_put(package_entity)

cat ~/.ckanclientrc
[index:http://datahub.io]
api_key = my-key

[rufuspollock]

@timrdf hi tim. I see @tobes has replied on list correctly indicated that there is a bug in the docs in that this is not actually supported. That said all the code for this is in the https://github.com/okfn/ckanclient/blob/master/ckanclient/datastore.py file and just needs to be moved across (I think that there had been a plan to do this but which somehow got stalled halfway).

[timrdf]

Thanks, @rgrp. As I said on list, I'll work around the issue as long as I can, and then re-raise it and/or fork the repo to add the older capability.

For my own reference, I discuss this issue #15 at https://github.com/timrdf/DataFAQs/wiki/DATAFAQS-environment-variables and https://github.com/timrdf/DataFAQs/wiki/CKAN, which is where I'll continue to elaborate my need for a ~/.ckanclientrc with different api keys for different ckan instances.

Regards,
Tim

[rufuspollock]

Thanks. The fix here should be pretty easy (we just need to copy some of the code from datastore.py). The moment you ahve something we can review and merge.