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Testing IATI Regsitry Publishing

Adrian Collier
Adrian Collier • 24 July 2014

We’re doing some user testing within the test Aidstream Implementation we have setup at http://aidstream.zimmermanzimmerman.com/ and would like to try out the publishing process to the registry.

Obviously we don’t want to start polluting the registry with our test data, so was wondering if you have a solution in place to be able to post to a test registry site which will give us the right responses back without it all being live?

(Let me know if this isn’t clear - not sure if I am describing the problem correctly).

Comments (6)

Ben Webb - IATI Secretariat
Ben Webb - IATI Secretariat

Yes, this makes sense, and I think is something other publishers have asked about.

We have a test copy of the registry, which is used to test upgrades to the CKAN software - http://iati2.staging.ckanhosted.com/ . It may be possible to use this, or we may want to set up another test. The other alternative is to set up a copy of CKAN + the IATI extension locally. However, this isn’t especially straightforward, so we will probably look into providing a test instance for publishers. Steven Flower probably has more to say about this.

Some publishers have also suggested having a test copy of the datastore/dashboard which uses such a dev copy of the registry, to allow publishers to test the data using the datastore/dashboard without having to first make it live. This is more difficult, but is something we may also consider.

Steven Flower
Steven Flower

Yes - afaik the copy of the Registry at http://iati2.staging.ckanhosted.com/ can be used as it stands, Please bear in mind that this is not fully synched with the live Registry (in terms of account data) and may get wiped without notice. However, in terms of software (including the API), it is to the latest version of the live IATI CKAN.

However, I will confirm this with the OKF CKAN team, just in case there are any restrictions.

Steven Flower
Steven Flower

From Adria at OKF:

The staging site at http://iati2.staging.ckanhosted.com/
is running the latest code (but the database is using is an old one,
meaning that there aren’t all the publishers and datasets).

People is of course welcome to use it, the only thing is that we have
other staging CKAN instances running on that server so if people testing
against it affects the performance of the other sites we may need to
put some limits in place. I don’t think that will be an issue though.


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