[Developers] Getting back an article !!

Christopher R. Maden crism at metaweb.com
Sat Nov 1 00:16:22 UTC 2008


Tejas Lagvankar wrote:
> So, I interpret that 'article' is a "property" of the object named by 
> title here (TestObject3 in my case). Assuming this, if I query back for 
> the article, it gives me 'null' :
> 
> QUERY:
> {
>   "article" : [],
>   "name" : "TestObject3",
>   "type" : "/common/topic"
> }
> RESPONSE:
> {
>   "article" : [
>     null
>   ],
>   "name" : "TestObject3",
>   "type" : "/common/topic"
> }
> 
> while I can view the article when i see through browser !! So either my 
> understanding is wrong OR there seems to be some problem (which is 
> highly unlikely) !!
> Anyways, can anyone point me to some link/document where the various 
> elements and their relationships are clearly mentioned !! (By 
> relationship I mean to understand like which elements contains which 
> one, which can be a property of other.. and so on... )... I'm already 
> very confused about all this !!

The article is named “null” — that is, it has no name.  When you don’t 
ask for specific information about an object, usually you will get its name.

Try instead:

{
   "article" : [
     {
       "id" : null
     }
   ],
   "name" : "TestObject3",
   "type" : "/common/topic"
}

~Chris
-- 
Christopher R. Maden
Data Architect
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