New Alchemy API does not support standard characters

[scprotz]

I get

{"error":"unsupported-text-language", "code":400}

when running text that has characters like & in them.

I think we either need a definition of supported characters or some automated encoding in the method:

service.getEntities()

[scprotz]

Some other characters that cause it to break: -and /.

[germanattanasio]

I can reproduce the issue.. seems to be something related to how we encode the form-urlencoded.

[germanattanasio]

I've added test cases and I think the problem is fixed.
Example:

AlchemyLanguage service = new AlchemyLanguage();

Map<String, Object> params = new HashMap<String, Object>();
String text = "Mr. Vice President, my old colleague from Massachusetts"+
"and your new Speaker & John McCormack, Members of the 87th Congress, "+
"ladies and gentlemen: -. *&^%$#@!@#$%^&*()";
params.put(AlchemyLanguage.TEXT, text);

Entities entities = service.getEntities(params);
Assert.assertNotNull(entities);
Assert.assertFalse(entities.getEntities().isEmpty());

[gcolmen]

Hello, I know it's a closed issue, but I'm using this simple phrase (without any symbols):
"delete laboratory record"

And I'm getting the very same error. What could it be? Or how can I solve it?

Thanks in advance!

[tanmayb123]

Hi! I'm also getting the same issue. This is when I use "Stephen Hillenburg". Is there a way I can specify that the input is in english? Thanks!
EDIT: It also gives the same issue when testing "Scarlett Johansson"

[gcolmen]

Hi, I solved the problem by sending a parameter for the language when making the call:

params.put("language", "english");

(params is the Map containing the parameters for the call).

Hope it's useful.

gc

[tanmayb123]

Thanks for the info, @gcolmen!
I was able to use this to create #226

[tanmayb123]

I think we can close the issue now.

[germanattanasio]

I'm going to wait until the next release which is on April 15.

[ghost]

How we can set language as "English" when making "alchemyObj.TextGetTaxonomy(str)" call to alchemy?
I'm getting error: "unsupported-text-language" when input is: "Factorial factorial carrot"
Please help.

[germanattanasio]

AlchemyLanguage service = new AlchemyLanguage();
service.setLanguage(LanguageSelection.ENGLISH)
service.taxonomy("type string here")

[ghost]

@germanattanasio: Thank you for this. I've already setup my code which is using Document doc = alchemyObj.TextGetTaxonomy("my string") where "alchemyObj" is of class "com.alchemyapi.api.AlchemyAPI"

Could you please tell where to set Language in this case ?

Thanks!!

[germanattanasio]

@shmarzooq you are using a different SDK. Look at the README.md in this project and switch to use this SDK.

[ghost]

@germanattanasio Thank you for pointing it out. I will look into README.md and will see how the switching goes. I just don't want to redo the whole code again. I've almost finished my project using AlchemyAPI (calling AlchemyAPI, passing string, getting text-taxonomies, text-concepts, and parsing the returned XML). Just getting this language issue and rest it's working fine.