[Developers] Blurb Upload Difficulties

[James Taylor]

Hi, this isn't the problem as we've already worked through this issue for
other properties we edit.    Thanks for the hep though.  -James

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Ben Drees <ben at metaweb.com> wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> If the writes (w) and reads (r) are carried out using different user
> agents (custom code (w) and a browser (r), for example), the problem may
> be that you are reading a cached (pre-mqlwrite) version of the topic.
> Here are a couple of descriptions of the issue:
>
> <http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000076224e8>
> <http://blog.freebase.com/2008/01/22/caching-dynamic-content/>
> <http://lists.freebase.com/pipermail/developers/2008-January/001258.html>
>
> -Ben
>
> James Taylor wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been having difficulties successfully uploading and linking text
> > blurbs to topics and I'm hoping someone can help out.  Specifically,
> > I'm trying to edit 'overview' text blurbs for a topic from using mql
> > writes from my site.  It's my understanding that to do this I need to:
> > 1) upload my text blurb to freebase; 2) create a document topic to
> > hold the blurb; 3) link the newly created document topic to the
> > original topic.  All of my mql's appear to be working, but the new
> > text does not show up indicating something failed.  I've placed an
> > example of my mql read and writes for this below.  I'm able to create
> > and link topics, but the over text does not show up, which is
> > unexpected.
> >
> > So, if I am updating the text on the topic:
> >
> http://www.sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000098e3c0b
> >
> > The response from my upload is:
> > mqlwrite response:
> > {
> >   "status":"200 OK",
> >   "code":"/api/status/ok",
> >   "result":{
> >     "/type/content/length":64,
> >
> >
> "/type/content/blob_id":"1656ec44144062ec182ea7d6179446c0f194ecd4445d5e381ef518fab8283203",
> >     "/type/content/language":"/lang/en",
> >     "/type/content/text_encoding":"utf-8",
> >     "/type/content/media_type":"text/plain",
> >     "type":"/type/content",
> >     "id":"/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000009a34b55"
> >   },
> >
> >
> "transaction_id":"cache;cache01.sandbox.sjc1:8101;2008-11-14T04:34:01Z;0002"
> > }
> >
> > My write and response from my document create is:
> > mqlwrite query:
> > {
> >     "q1": {
> >         "query": {
> >             "create":"unless_exists",
> >             "type":"/common/topic",
> >             "name":"/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000009a34b55",
> >             "id":null,
> >             "article" : {
> >                 "create":"unless_exists",
> >                 "type":"/common/document",
> >                 "id":null,
> >                 "content":"/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000009a34b55"
> >              }
> >          }
> >     }
> > }
> > mqlwrite response:
> > {
> >   "q1":{
> >     "code":"/api/status/ok",
> >     "result":{
> >       "article":{
> >         "content":"/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000009a34b55",
> >         "create":"created",
> >         "type":"/common/document",
> >         "id":"/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000009a34b60"
> >       },
> >       "create":"created",
> >       "type":"/common/topic",
> >       "name":"/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000009a34b55",
> >       "id":"/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000009a34b5c"
> >     }
> >   },
> >   "status":"200 OK",
> >   "code":"/api/status/ok",
> >
> >
> "transaction_id":"cache;cache01.sandbox.sjc1:8101;2008-11-14T04:34:02Z;0004"
> > }
> >
> > And my link to the original document is:
> > mqlwrite query:
> > {
> >        "q1": {
> >                "query": {
> >                        "id" : "/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000098e3c0b",
> >                          "/common/topic/article" : {
> >                            "id" :
> > "/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000009a34b5c",
> >                            "connect" : "insert"
> >                          },
> >                          "type" : "/common/topic"
> >                  }
> >        }
> > }
> > mqlwrite response:
> > {
> >   "q1":{
> >     "code":"/api/status/ok",
> >     "result":{
> >       "type":"/common/topic",
> >       "id":"/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000098e3c0b",
> >       "/common/topic/article":{
> >         "id":"/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000009a34b5c",
> >         "connect":"inserted"
> >       }
> >     }
> >   },
> >   "status":"200 OK",
> >   "code":"/api/status/ok",
> >
> >
> "transaction_id":"cache;cache01.sandbox.sjc1:8101;2008-11-14T04:34:02Z;0014"
> > }
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > James
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