Record Matching API website support gives an error
Hello,
I'm trying to use the website feature through a python script using the REST API, and hitting a snag. It appears that there is a trailing \r after the data that messes up the JSON parsing:
URL='https://api.thomsonreuters.com/permid/match'
header={'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'text/plain', 'x-ag-access-token': 'xxx', 'x-openmatch-dataType': 'Organization', 'x-openmatch-numberOfMatchesPerRecord': 1}
data='LocalID,Standard Identifier,Name,Country,Street,City,PostalCode,State,Website \n ,,Apple,,,,,,http://www.apple.com'
Exception Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 819, in json return json.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
...File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 400, in raw_decode return self.scan_once(s, idx=_w(s, idx).end())
JSONDecodeError: Invalid control character u'\r' at: line 1 column 692 (char 691)
Note: i am running python 2.7 and requests 2.7 in cygwin, on windows 10.
@vna
I found that the problem only happens when the request text contains the website information.
LocalID,Standard Identifier,Name,Country,Street,City,PostalCode,State,Website
,,Apple,,,,,,www.apple.com
The response will contain 0x0D after the "Input_Website" text.
However, if I removed the website information, the response is fine.
LocalID,Standard Identifier,Name,Country,Street,City,PostalCode,State,Website
,,Apple,,,,,,
The response is:
{
"ignore": " ",
"unMatched": 0,
"matched": {
"total": 1,
"excellent": 1
},
"numReceivedRecords": 1,
"numProcessedRecords": 1,
"numErrorRecords": 0,
"headersIdentifiedSuccessfully": [
"localid",
"standard identifier",
"name",
"country",
"street",
"city",
"postalcode",
"state",
"website"
],
"headersNotIdentified": [],
"headersSupportedWereNotSent": [],
"errorCode": 0,
"errorCodeMessage": "Success",
"resolvingTimeInMs": 238,
"requestTimeInMs": 238,
"outputContentResponse": [
{
"ProcessingStatus": "OK",
"Match OpenPermID": "https://permid.org/1-4295905573",
"Match OrgName": "Apple Inc",
"Match Score": "92%",
"Match Level": "Excellent",
"Match Ordinal": "1",
"Original Row Number": "2",
"Input_Name": "Apple"
}
]
}
Please confirm if it is the same problem that you found.
Yes, it is the same issue I have. Did you find any way to counteract that? (that ideally doesn't require me to hack into the requests library for this one special case)
I have contacted the support team to verify this problem.
The development team can replicate the issue. They will handle it. I will keep you updated on its progress.
Hello Jira, any news on this bug? I was hoping to start using websites by next month :)
There was no response back from the development team. I will contact them again for the update.
Hello Sunil & Jira,
any response yet? I am blocked trying to use the API if i can't match websites...
best
VnA
I have tested it. The problem has been fixed. There is no 0x0D after the "Input_Website" text anymore.
Thanks! It seems ok now for me too.