Consistently getting `Internal Error`

[zeuben]

I'm trying to create a user-entity -- as far as i can see i'm doing
everything as listed in the docs, as well as listed in this group --
can anyone help?

here is my POST data in both JSON and PHP array:

{"name":"user-xed9REJotk-6c300461","type":"user-entity","geom":
{"type":"Point","coordinates":[[-73.987121,40.716077]]}}

stdClass Object
(
[name] => user-xed9REJotk-6c300461
[type] => user-entity
[geom] => stdClass Object
(
[type] => Point
[coordinates] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => -73.987121
[1] => 40.716077
)

)

)

)

CURL REQUEST
$entity_name = "user-".GEOAPI_KEY."-".$V->getName();
$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Accept: application/
json", "Content-Type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://api.geoapi.com/v1/e/".
$entity_name."?apikey=".GEOAPI_KEY);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $entity_data);
$content = curl_exec($c);
curl_close($c);

GIVES RESPONSE

stdClass Object
(
[error] => you've encountered an internal error :-( please contact
a...@geoapi.com if it persists
)

[Jason Schwartz]

I don't think it's your code. I am constantly getting internal error
on calls that work sometimes.

Is anyone from GeoAPI still monitoring? What's going on?

[Othman Laraki]

I believe that the problem you are seeing is because you are setting the coordinates for your point to be a two-dimensional array. Try POST'ing:

{"name":"user-xed9REJotk-6c300461","type":"user-entity","geom":
{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-73.987121,40.716077]}}

--
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Othman Laraki | http://twitter.com/othman

[Jason Schwartz]

I tried this query 20 times with a 50% success rate.

http://api.geoapi.com/v1/e/new-york-ny/keyword-search?apikey=demo&pretty=1&q=%22my%20moon%22

50% of the time it returned this

{
"error": "you've encountered an internal error :-( please contact
a...@geoapi.com if it persists"

}

On Jul 13, 9:37 pm, Othman Laraki <oth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe that the problem you are seeing is because you are setting the
> coordinates for your point to be a two-dimensional array. Try POST'ing:
>
> {"name":"user-xed9REJotk-6c300461","type":"user-entity","geom":
> {"type":"Point","coordinates":[-73.987121,40.716077]}}
>

[Alessandro]

THAT WORKED!

so when its a single point, rather than a polygon, you have to use a 2-D array, rather than a 3-D array for the polygon.

thanks!!

[Alessandro]

OK -- so now its not erroring -- but when i get the shorturl back in the result --

stdClass Object
(
    [query] => stdClass Object
        (
            [type] => entity
            [params] => stdClass Object


                (
                    [guid] => user-xed9REJotk-6c300461
                    [show-geom] => all
                )

        )

    [result] => stdClass Object
        (

            [name] => user-xed9REJotk-6c300461

            [views] => Array
                (
                    [0] => weather
                    [1] => foursquare
                    [2] => twitter
                    [3] => flickr


                    [4] => youtube
                )

            [userviews] => Array
                (
                )

            [shorturl] => http://geo.am/KhK9Fw

            [geom] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [type] => Point
                    [coordinates] => Array
                        (

                            [0] => -73.986448


                            [1] => 40.71642
                        )

                )

            [type] => user-entity
        )

)

and go to the shorturl (http://api.geoapi.com/e/user-xed9REJotk-6c300461) -- i get this:

That link is invalid or no longer exists.

so what does that mean?

[Othman Laraki]

Seems like our shorturl resolver has a bug. It's resolving to

http://api.geoapi.com/e/user-xed9REJotk-6c300461

instead of 

http://api.geoapi.com/v1/e/user-xed9REJotk-6c300461?apikey=xed9REJotk

As in '/v1' is missing. Please use the long form until we get that fixed.

-Othman