How to Move Dataverse into another Dataverse

[sukdith punjasthitkul]

We have two dataverses within Root Dataverse:

Root > Dataverse A

Root > Dataverse B

What we'd like to do is move Dataverse B into Dataverse A:

Root > Dataverse A > Dataverse B

I'm trying to follow the instructions in the documentation 

http://guides.dataverse.org/en/4.14/admin/dataverses-datasets.html?highlight=move%20dataverse

and i'm getting xhtml output that basically says "Internal Server Error - An unexpected error was encountered, no more information is available."

We are on Dataverse v. 4.14 build 1326-57a392d

The command I used was 

curl -H "X-Dataverse-key:MY-GENERATED-API-KEY" -kX POST https://localhost:8181/api/dataverses/Dataverse-B/move/Dataverse-A

Was there something in my command that I mis-typed? 

--sukie--

[Julian Gautier]

Hi Sukie,

Thanks for including the Dataverse version you're running. Versions before 4.15 had a bug where the dataverse to be moved could not be moved if it contained one or more datasets. So I'm guessing that in your case, Dataverse A contains at least one dataset?

The bug was fixed in Dataverse 4.15. See https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/5774 for more info.

The curl command you included has a -kX before the POST. Was that intentional? From what I can tell, the guides don't have that "k".

Hope this helps!

Julian

Julian Gautier

Product Research Specialist, IQSS

[Julian Gautier]

Oh, I should also mention for future reference that I used this API twice recently, in an installation running 4.16. At first it appeared like it didn't work, but eventually it did. Just took some time.

[sukdith punjasthitkul]

Hi Julian, 

Updating to 4.16 fixed the issue. I was able to move the dataverses using the API. Thanks!

--sukie--

[Julian Gautier]

Great to hear! Thanks for letting us know!