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apihelper

Source: R/ridl.R
ridl.Rd

Helper function to make API calls. Calls includes the 10 following actions:

Usage

ridl(action, ..., .encoding = "json", verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

action

Operation to execute. See CKAN's API documentation for details.

...

whatever is needed

.encoding

HTTP POST encoding to use - one of json, form, or multipart.

verbose

TRUE FALSE to display info on the console about the API call

Value

httr::response object with the result of the call.

Details

On dataset

  • "package_create"

  • "package_update"

  • "package_patch"

  • "package_delete"

  • "package_search"

On resource

  • "resource_create"

  • "resource_update"

  • "resource_patch"

  • "resource_delete"

  • "resource_search"

The package works with both the production and UAT instances of RIDL. To use the UAT version, run Sys.setenv(USE_UAT=1) before calling any functions from the package. To go back to the production instance, call Sys.unsetenv("USE_UAT").

Examples

# ridl(action ="package_search", as.list("cbi"))