[Archivesspace_Users_Group] help with API route for archival object notes

[James Bullen]

Hi Karen,

No worries. Chris’ help was more to the point anyway ;)

From your example, you should be able to reference the content with the bad tag like this:

[’notes’][0][‘content’][0]


Cheers,
James


> On Jul 2, 2020, at 1:23 AM, Karen Miller <k-miller3 at northwestern.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello, James.
>  
> Sorry, I just realized I addressed you as Chris instead of as James! My apologies! I was so thrilled to get some assistance that I skimmed through the signatures too quickly.
>  
> Best,
> Karen
>  
> From: Karen Miller 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2020 9:50 AM
> To: 'Archivesspace Users Group' <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org <mailto:archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>>
> Subject: RE: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] help with API route for archival object notes
>  
> Hi Chris.
>  
> I’ve been able to successfully retrieve & update nested elements from the Agent record, just not from the archival object notes record. But your description of them as “repeating parts” of that record is helpful. Thanks!
>  
> Karen
>  
> From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org>> On Behalf Of James Bullen
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 6:35 PM
> To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org <mailto:archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>>
> Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] help with API route for archival object notes
>  
>  
> Hi Karen,
>  
> The general rule is that anything you can GET from a uri can be modified and POSTed back to update it.
>  
> So, GET the JSON for the archival_object as you are doing. Then modify the JSON (in this case the notes bit of it) to look how you want. Then POST it back to the same uri.
>  
> Notes are nested subrecords (as are dates and others). These don’t have a life of their own, they are really just repeating parts of the top level record that they are contained within.
>  
> Hope that helps..
>  
>  
> Cheers,
> James
>  
>  
> 
> On Jul 1, 2020, at 8:22 AM, Karen Miller <k-miller3 at northwestern.edu <mailto:k-miller3 at northwestern.edu>> wrote:
>  
> Good morning, ArchivesSpace users.
>  
> I am a cataloger (*not* a developer) using the API to update ArchivesSpace. So far I’ve figured out how to add LCCNs to the authority_Id of Agent records and do a couple more updates that, in retrospect, were pretty simple. 
>  
> The next task I’d like to tackle, however, just seems like maybe it can’t be done. We’ve got a lot of notes with html tags in them and I would like to update those to valid tags. I can get the JSON for the notes in any particular archival object, but I don’t know how to specify the route to the note to change it. The JSON looks like this:
>  
> 'notes': [{'content': ['This is a note with a bad <i>tag</i>'],
>             'jsonmodel_type': 'note_singlepart',
>             'persistent_id': '75ba0ec57e374b8b154551a69b4c311f',
>             'publish': True,
>             'type': 'abstract'},
>            {'jsonmodel_type': 'note_multipart',
>             'persistent_id': '66afa07b3214260078123236bbe1ff27',
>             'publish': True,
>             'subnotes': [{'content': 'This is a dippy note.',
>                           'jsonmodel_type': 'note_text',
>                           'publish': True}],
>             'type': 'scopecontent'}],
>  
> I got this using the route ‘repositories/10/archival_objects/489763’, but I don’t know how to specify the note that I want in the JSON. For the agent authority_id I used the route ‘‘/agents/people/<somenumber> and specified the field like this:
>  
> ['names'][0]['authority_id']
>  
> I’m hoping this is an easy question for somebody with more experience with the API and (especially) with JSON than I. I’m a little afraid the answer is that it can’t be done. Any advice will be appreciated! 
>  
> Karen
>  
> Karen D. Miller
> Monographic Cataloger/Metadata Specialist
> Northwestern University Libraries
> Northwestern University
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