[Developers] Creating types through mqlwrite

Bryan Cheung bryan.cheung at metaweb.com
Tue Apr 7 21:12:07 UTC 2009


It is possible to create types using mqlwrite, but it's not  
recommended, due to the possibility of error, and that if such errors  
are made on www.freebase.com we'd probably have to revert all the  
user's changes rather than clean up.


On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:26 PM, Michael Callaghan wrote:

> In the MQL Reference,  there is a brief mention of how the API for  
> creating types dynamically through mqlwrite is "difficult and error  
> prone".  However, I cannot find where this process is described.  I  
> would like to test my data modelling ideas in the sandbox by  
> programmatically creating various types and then adding topics and  
> testing queries.  During this phase of development I'd like to avoid  
> having to manually recreate types each week when the sandbox is  
> overwritten.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks
> Michael Callaghan
>
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