Simple search fails

[Elvis Valdes Ramirez]

Hi There,

I'm trying to run the following simple search and it fails with error code 400:

client = ContentAPI()
client.simple_search_csv("%", "everything.csv")

Output:
search failed with error code: 400
RuntimeError: (400, 'simple_search failed with error code: 400')

Any idea about this issue, I'll appreciate it, thank you.

[James Carr]

Hi

Update the script and add the csv_file=  before the file name.

client = ContentAPI()
client.simple_search_csv("%", csv_file="everything.csv")

~

James

[Elvis Valdes Ramirez]

Hi James,

Thank you, it works fine, however I've tried to run the following and I got a Positional argument error:

metadata_fields = ["xip.title", "xip.description", "xip.document_type", "xip.parent_ref"]

content.simple_search_csv("Webcrawling", csv_file="output.csv", metadata_fields)

I'm running some of the examples from the pyPreservica documentation, though my last aim would be to export csv files with metadata content from assets within folders.

[James Carr]

Try this

metadata_fields = ["xip.title", "xip.description", "xip.document_type", "xip.parent_ref"]

content.simple_search_csv(query="Webcrawling", csv_file="output.csv", list_indexes=metadata_fields)

[Elvis Valdes Ramirez]

Hi James,

That worked, and apologies I should have started with the one I really need, the following that fails. I've tried different options and all failed, you can see the errors below between square brackets. Also I'd like to get the results in the script and not in a csv file, for which I tried "content.search_index_filter_list" but it didn't work. I hope you can help.

if __name__ == '__main__':

    metadata_fields = {

        "xip.reference": "*", "xip.title": "", "xip.description": "", "xip.document_type": "*", "xip.parent_hierarchy": f"{folder.reference}",

        "xip.security_descriptor": "*",

        "xip.identifier": "", "xip.bitstream_names_r_Preservation": ""}

    content.search_callback(content.ReportProgressCallBack())

    content.search_index_filter_csv("%", "assets.csv", metadata_fields) [error code:400]

content.search_index_filter_csv("%", csv_file="assets.csv", metadata_fields) [SyntaxError: positional argument follows keyword argument]

content.search_index_filter_csv("%", csv_file="assets.csv", list_indexes=metadata_fields) [TypeError: ContentAPI.search_index_filter_csv() got an unexpected keyword argument 'list_indexes']

Thank you

[James Carr]

Hi

If you want the results written to a csv use:

content.search_index_filter_csv(query="%", csv_file="assets.csv", filter_values=metadata_fields)

If you want to process the results in the script use:

    for hit in content.search_index_filter_list(query="%", filter_values=metadata_fields):
        print(hit)

[Elvis Valdes Ramirez]

Thank you James, it works fine, I really appreciate it.

Regards