[Developers] problems with Freebase Suggest

[Martin Dudek]

Hi Tim,

thanks go to Willi, who took the burden to dive into it and solved it,
I just played the role of lazy complaining guy

cheers

martin

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Tim Kientzle <tim at metaweb.com> wrote:
> Martin,
>
> Thank you for pointing this out.  During some routine code cleanup,
> the undocumented support for "strict:1" and "strict:0" (as
> aliases for "strict:true" and "strict:false") was inadvertently
> removed.
>
> We'll shortly be restoring these options.  We're also going to
> document them so that developers working on this code in the
> future will have clearer guidelines about what should be supported.
>
> We apologize for any confusion caused by this mistake.
>
> Tim Kientzle
>
>
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Will Moffat wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 19 Jun 2008, at 08:28, Martin Dudek wrote:
>>> I just discovered that the freebase suggest javascript utility
>>> doesn't
>>> work anymore, at least in some cases like this one here
>>> http://mqlx.com/freebase-suggest/examples/suggest_demo2.html
>>
>>
>> OK, the examples should be fixed now. http://code.google.com/p/freebase-suggest/
>> You can see the changes I made: http://code.google.com/p/freebase-suggest/source/detail?r=100
>>
>> Basically this:
>> $('#example2').freebaseSuggest( {ac_param:{type: '/music/album',
>> category: "instance", get_all_types: "0", disamb: "1", limit: "10",
>> strict:1 };
>>
>> Should be:
>> $('#example2').freebaseSuggest( {ac_param:{type:'/music/album'}} );
>>
>> Most of the arguments have been depreciated and 'strict' no longer
>> takes 1. I've removed strict as well because the default behaviour
>> seems fine to me, if you want to experiment then see the search API
>> docs here:
>> http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ad84c9
>>
>> While fixing this, I noticed a few other minor problems in the
>> examples and documentation, so thanks again for bringing it to my
>> attention.
>> --Will
>>
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