api gpg key URI is 404

[Paul Tagliamonte]

When I query for my GPG keys, I get a collection containing a bunch of elements, which is fairly stock. I get stuff similar to:

    "self_link": "https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/~paultag/+gpg-keys/B7982329",
    "self_link": "https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/~paultag/+gpg-keys/807C2A87",

    $ curl https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/~paultag/+gpg-keys/807C2A87
    Object: <Person at 0x13233950 paultag (Paul Tagliamonte)>, name: u'+gpg-keys'

Dang!

This behavior seems out of the norm when I compare it to other collection blobs.

< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:45:05 GMT
< Server: zope.server.http (HTTP)
< X-Powered-By: Zope (www.zope.org), Python (www.python.org)
< Content-Length: 77
< Content-Type: text/plain
< X-Cache: MISS from nutmeg.canonical.com
< X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from nutmeg.canonical.com:3128
< Via: 1.0 nutmeg.canonical.com:3128 (squid/2.7.STABLE7)
< Via: 1.1 api.launchpad.net
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
<
* Connection #0 to host api.launchpad.net left intact
* Closing connection #0
* SSLv3, TLS alert, Client hello (1):
Object: <Person at 0x13b59290 paultag (Paul Tagliamonte)>, name: u'+gpg-keys'%

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

I agree this is unusual. I'm not absolutely totally convinced Launchpad needs to return you the contents of the key there (rather than just giving the client the id) but giving a URI that doesn't resolve is in poor taste.

Did you have a specific motivating example for trying this?

[Paul Tagliamonte (paultag)]

Actually, I only came across this because I wrote (in an hour or so) a half-baked PHP library.

It handles collections by getting the collection link, and creating objects off all the self_links.

In short - I was trying to list all GPG keys - but because my API bindings are so primitive (like I said, random hack) this issue surfaced.

I doubt this is present in the Python library (unless you manually use the "borked" URL), so it's fairly harmless.

Thanks for the triage!

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Cool, I'm glad you could get to that point in half an hour.

If the php client library gets even to a partially useful state we'd be happy to list in on the client help page etc.