API and curl problem

[Peter Gilles]

Hi all,

I am trying to construct a curl call (for usage in R or Python) to query my corpus via bonito.

When using an URL API call like:

http://server.url/bonito/run.cgi/view?corpname=korpus_new;q=q[lemma=%22iech%22];pagesize=12;ctxattrs=word,lc,spellux,tag;format=json

I will receive the desired JSON result.

However, when I try to do the same with curl, e.g.:

curl -F "corpname=korpus_new" -F "q=q[lemma="iech"]" -F "format=json"   "http://server.url/bonito/run.cgi/view"

I will receive an error:

{"request": {}, "api_version": "open-4.24.6", "error": "'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__'"}

I am a bit lost here. I tried to build the call according to the information mentioned on https://www.sketchengine.eu/documentation/api-documentation/#toggle-id-5.

Thanks,

Peter

[Ondřej Herman]

Dear Peter,

I'm not exactly sure what the root cause is, but as a quick fix -- if you specify corpname as an URL parameter (and escape the quotes), everything works fine:

curl -F "q=q[lemma=\"test\"]" "https://no.sketchengine.co.uk/bonito/run.cgi/view?corpname=susanne"

Best,

Ondrej

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[Miloš Jakubíček]

It's exactly that: corpname must be part of the URL, i.e. may not be POSTed (which is what curl -F does).

I will ask someone to look into that and either fix it or update the documentation.

As far as I remember the rationale was to ease per-corpus authentication (which can easily then be handled by a webserver like nginx or apache).

Best

Milos

Milos Jakubicek

CEO, Lexical Computing

Brno, CZ | Brighton UK

http://www.lexicalcomputing.com

http://www.sketchengine.co.uk

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[Peter Gilles]

Thanks! It is working now. 

Peter