Open Library

Bot writers shouldn't need to resolve author merges and redirects

Bug #611426 reported by Edward Betts
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Open Library
Confirmed
Medium
Anand Chitipothu
Open Library general-bucket

Bug Description

Trying to add things to edition records using save_many fails because the validation picks up existing errors in the record, like redirects to authors or deleted authors.

We should either fix all these errors in existing records, or only valid things that have changed in the record.

Edward Betts (edwardbetts)
Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: nobody → Anand Chitipothu (anandology)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
George (george-archive) wrote :

Author merge work finder is broken.

[4/11/11 4:34:25 PM] Edward Betts: openlibrary.api.OLError: Bad Request: {"message": "expected /type/author, found /type/redirect", "at": {"property": "authors.author", "key": "/works/OL13415982W"}, "value": "/authors/OL6304148A", "error": "bad_data"}
[4/11/11 4:34:33 PM] Edward Betts: I'm having problems handling redirects
[4/11/11 4:34:49 PM] Edward Betts: it would be great if the API could resolve redirects

(This is a feature request.)

Changed in openlibrary:
milestone: none → general-bucket
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