Bug Reports?

9 months ago

Hi GRon,

We don't have a public bug list yet. The forum is the best place to get help.

The projects you are having trouble with do not have contributors, because we do not have the source code and have not created reports. Basically, the page you are requesting does not exist, and our code is trying to redirect you to the project home page. I will post a bug against the API to return an error message instead of redirecting.

To work around this problem for now, before you try to download the contributors, you will have to first retrieve the project itself and check its best_analysis_id element. If that element is empty, then the project does not have an analysis. Without an analysis, it will not have any other Ohloh data: no enlistments, no lines of code, and no contributors.

We do plan to publish the connection between accounts and projects in the API (we call these "positions"), but it is not implemented yet. I will bump this up the queue as the next feature to add to the API, but we are really busy lately and I can't promise a delivery time.

Thanks for trying out the API. Let me know if I can offer more help,

Robin

Paul Scott

8 months ago

Hi Robin,

There is a typo in the API documentation page for contributorLanguageFact http://www.ohloh.net/api/reference/contributorlanguagefact in the URL that is specified for collections:

It says: GET http://www.ohloh.net/projects/{projectid}/contributor/{contributorid}.xml should be: GET http://www.ohloh.net/projects/{projectid}/contributors/{contributorid}.xml

Note the missing 's'

Thanks and great work!

8 months ago

Thanks, pscott. I've made the correction.

6 months ago

Hi Ohloh team! First of all, great work! Now on to the requests:

I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, but the xml responses lack the header (I mean the ). I can't feed the responses to yahoo pipes because of that...
A little correction: on http://www.ohloh.net/api/reference/stack it says "you will always receive a single Atack" (instead of Stack...)

Thanks!

6 months ago

Hi mausch,

I am deploying the fix to add the <?xml... > declaration to the top of our API responses now.

My only concern is that we might break some existing apps that worked around our bug, but I've had this to-do list item for a long time and it was a pretty simple fix.

Yahoo Pipes appears to be working for me now -- let me know if there's any more trouble.

Thanks for reporting,

Robin

6 months ago

A small typo on the Kudo page: the urls to access the kudos are not

GET http://www.ohloh.net/account/{account_id}/kudos.xml GET http://www.ohloh.net/account/{account_id}/kudos/sent.xml

but

GET http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/{account_id}/kudos.xml GET http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/{account_id}/kudos/sent.xml

6 months ago

Thanks Robin! works great now

6 months ago

Thanks Yanick -- I've fixed the typo.

6 months ago

You're quite welcome. :-)

5 months ago

Two other small typos in the API:

The primary_language_nice_name element returned within a contributorfact is *primarlylanguagenicename*.

In the Enlistment API page, language_nice_name is given as primary_language_nice_name.

5 months ago

Hi Yanick,

I've fixed the "primarly" typo in the XML response.

However, I can't find the typo on the Enlistment API page. Can you help me out with some more specifics? An URL?

Thanks, Robin

5 months ago

Do'h! Sorry, I meant contributorLanguageFact (http://www.ohloh.net/api/reference/contributorlanguagefact). The fifth property.

5 months ago

Thanks! It's fixed now. I have to admit I get confused myself sometimes with all of the ContributorFact, ContributorLanguageFact, etc. (and the many more such related items we have internally). :-)

4 months ago

I'm getting a 406 response from certain API requests... for example http://www.ohloh.net/projects/175/commits.xml?v=1&apikey=MYAPI_KEY&page=1 Has something changed?

4 months ago

Commits are not accessible through the API. Did this ever work? I don't recall ever implementing it.

4 months ago

Yup, commits were available through the API. In fact, I used that to build a commit chart (now broken)

4 months ago

Wow. It's a long story, but what you were receiving was not actually part of the API. Yes, you were getting an XML response, but it was not a well-formed API response.

It's not entirely clear why this XML commits page even existed, but I think it was related to an Ajax callback for the interactive commits timeline, which we subsequently changed to use JSON, but the old XML interface was still active.

In short, you discovered a forgotten, deprecated XML page on our site that was not actually part of the API.

I'll consider this a request to have commits added to the API. :-)

4 months ago

Oh well. I hope the commit XML comes back soon :-) Thanks

4 months ago

Oh, it seems there's a duplicate request for jquery.autocomplete.min.js

3 months ago

A small doc omission: The sizeFact API reference (http://www.ohloh.net/api/reference/size_fact) does not mention its 'commits' property.

3 months ago

Thanks Yanick -- this is now fixed.

3 months ago

Seems like http://www.ohloh.net/languages.xml is now returning the first ten languages instead of the full list. Is the results meant to be paginated, now?