Request: Better Native API error when attempting to upload file while dataset is locked
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Feature: API
Type: Suggestion
User Role: API User
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- Java
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Description
Hello!
I'm building a file uploader to dataverse as part of CORE2, and ran into a confusing experience using the Native API.
Dataverse locks the dataset for ingest if a file needs to be converted to tabular. It would be helpful for the API to report this as the reason for the upload failing. As it stands, the error is a very generic "Failed to add file to dataset."
Thanks for reading :)
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Research direction
Start by tracing the Native API file-upload handling for the locked-dataset ingest path and reproduce the failure described for CORE2. Done means an upload rejected because the dataset is locked reports that locking reason instead of only "Failed to add file to dataset."
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- api, backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100