[Developers] Query with : in id string returns an error

[Dae Park]

English names don't directly translate into ids. To get the  
definitive id of something with an english name:

[{
   "name": "2001: A Space Odyssey",
   "id": null,
   "type": null
}]

this will return many things that have "2001: A Space Odyssey" as the  
english name, like the film, soundtrack, etc.

So if you know the type you are looking for, (let's say film):

[{
   "name": "2001: A Space Odyssey",
   "id": null,
   "type": "/film/film"
}]

will give you

[
   {
     "id" : "/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000042f26",
     "name" : "2001: A Space Odyssey",
     "type" : "/film/film"
   }
]


On Jun 10, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Jesse Wang wrote:

> I try to use MQL read to do a query say for say "2001: A Space  
> Odyssey", as
> in:
> {
>   "*" : null,
>   "id" : "/topic/en/2001:_a_space_odyssey"
> }
>
> but I got an error as:
> {
>   "code" : "/api/status/error",
>   "messages" : [
>     {
>       "code" : "/api/status/error/mql/type",
>       "info" : {
>         "expected_type" : "/type/id",
>         "value" : "/topic/en/2001:_a_space_odyssey",
>         "value_type" : "string"
>       },
>       "message" : "/topic/en/2001:_a_space_odyssey is a JSON  
> string, but the
> expected type is /type/id"
>     }
>   ]
> }
> However, if I used words like "Bill Gates" (i.e. replacing
> "../en/2001:_a..." with "../en/bill_gates"), it works fine,  
> escaping (%3A)
> doesn't seem to help, any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
> -- 
> Jesse
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