Re: [guardian-api-talk] Re: Possible bug: Politics API returns truncated (invalid) JSON response for Conservative party mp listing

[Michael Brunton-Spall]

Thanks for sending that information through.

I double checked and also saw the issue, although it being 1AM locally at the time I wasn't able to look at it or address it.

I'll pass onto the politics team and see if we know what could have caused it, it's a bit of a mystery to me as to how it can possibly happen.

With regard to finding an MP by name, unfortunately for some reason we don't expose all politicians, or a way of looking up by name, but I'll add that to our backlog as it should be possible to combine the Content-Api and Politics API to do that for most politicians fairly easily.

Thanks again

Michael Brunton-Spall
Developer Advocate
guardian.co.uk

On 11 November 2012 23:20, Tom Lant <lamph...@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, this now seems to be working. So either we had a Sunday bugfix, an intermittent issue, or I am a crank?

Either way, we can probably disregard what I said before, at least for now.

Tom

On Sunday, 11 November 2012 00:51:36 UTC, Tom Lant wrote:

Hi there,

Is this a suitable place to post bug reports? I wasn't able to find a more appropriate link from the main site.

Anyway, I've noticed that when trying to fetch a list of Conservative MPs using the politics API, it seems to return invalid, truncated JSON.

Hitting:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/api/party/59/json

Returns mps up to Stuart Andrew:

    http://pastebin.com/hS4Rw3NU

Additionally, can anyone advise if there is a cleaner way to search for an MP by name? Right now I'm looking at hitting the /party/all/json feed, then iterating through each party's page to build up a map of mp names to aristotle ids, which seems pretty clumsy :\

Thanks,

Tom

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[Michael Brunton-Spall]

Cheers Stephen.

I've had a very quick look and for some reason our feed is uploading partially incomplete files to our static file server.  It re-uploads on a regular basis which explains why it fixed itself then broke again.

I'll try to have a look at why and fix it when I get a chance.

Thanks again

MBS

Michael Brunton-Spall
Developer Advocate
guardian.co.uk

On 19 November 2012 13:58, Stephen Rushe <st...@deeden.co.uk> wrote:

Just thought I'd add another couple of truncated entries to the list.

The json returned for both the 1992, and 2010 General Elections is also truncated if you hit one of:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/api/general-election/1992/results/json

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/api/general-election/2010/results/json

The 1992 response is 2619 bytes, while the 2010 is 2644.

The files for 1997, 2001, and 2005, all seem to be complete.

Steve

 
On Friday, November 16, 2012 12:13:42 AM UTC, Tom Lant wrote:

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your reply.

Yeah, it does seem a bit mysterious, especially since it's intermittent =-) Unfortunately the issue does seem be affecting me again - I haven't been able to successfully fetch the full list of Conservative MPs today or yesterday.

I've also noticed that not all of the URLs provided by a call to http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/api/party/all/json respond correctly - you get a 404 if you hit one of:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/api/party/95/json (Green Party)

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/api/party/15/json (Alliance Party of Northern Ireland)

That's not actually a significant issue for my use case, though.

Thanks for letting the Politics guys know - is there a more appropriate forum for bug reports?

Tom

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