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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>When adding a genre to an podcast I accidentally picked National
Public Radio from the popup list. The expected type for the was /user/cotton/default_domain/broadcast_genre,
and NPR was not of that type. Why does the site allow me to pick a topics that is
not of the correct type? Can’t it restrict the list to just the valid
type for that property?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Now the NPR topic suddenly had an additional and wrong type.
Why can any object be so easily be coerced into an incompatible type? That
seems wrong/dangerous to me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I then proceeded to remove the bad type from NPR. That
worked. However, my podcast still has a genre called NPR, and it is of the
wrong type! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Does freebase not force objects to be of the correct type?
How can a podcast have a genre that is not of the correct type? It would seem
to me that freebase should enforce type correctness. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I was using the sandbox query:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>{<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> "query" : [<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> {<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
"/user/cotton/default_domain/broadcaster/broadcast_genres" : [<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> {<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
"name" : null,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
"type" : []<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> }<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> ],<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> "id" : null,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> "name" : "Good
Morning America"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> }<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> ]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>}<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The result:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>{<br>
"q1": {<br>
"code": "/api/status/ok", <br>
"result": [<br>
{<br>
"/user/cotton/default_domain/broadcaster/broadcast_genres":
[<br>
{<br>
"type": [<br>
"/common/topic", <br>
"/business/employer", <br>
"/business/company",
<br>
"/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004f29379", <br>
"/user/dchwalisz/default_domain/public_radio_network",
<br>
"/music/genre"<br>
], <br>
"name": "National
Public Radio" <br>
}, <br>
{<br>
"type": [<br>
"/common/topic", <br>
"/broadcast/radio_format", <br>
"/user/cotton/default_domain/broadcast_genre"<br>
], <br>
"name": "Talk
radio"<br>
}<br>
], <br>
"id":
"/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000620b242", <br>
"name": "Good Morning America"<br>
}<br>
]<br>
}, <br>
"status": "200 OK", <br>
"code": "/api/status/ok"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>}<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Note that NPR is listed as a value for "/user/cotton/default_domain/broadcaster/broadcast_genres”,
but that field is supposed to be of type "/user/cotton/default_domain/broadcast_genre”,
and it is not!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Have fun,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> Arthur<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#A6A6A6'>___________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#A6A6A6'>Arthur van Hoff,
CTO Software and Services, Dell-ZING<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#A6A6A6'>W: 650-267-2413,
F: 650-267-2498, M: 650-283-0842<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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