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WWW::Metaweb: JSON::XS 2.0 change, slight doc inconsistency

2008-05-01T04:18:41.0000Z

Hi rasantos,

Welcome to freebase! Thanks for the comment - I'll let the maintainer know of this change.

WWW::Metaweb: JSON::XS 2.0 change, slight doc inconsistency

2008-04-29T22:42:52.0005Z

Thanks for your efforts on putting together WWW::Metaweb. However, you might want to update the package to depend upon JSON::XS version 2.01 to account for an API change in JSON::XS. The "from_json" method has been renamed to "decode_json", and breaks for new users who are getting both JSON::XS and WWW::Metaweb new for the first time. The patch is a simple matter of replacing the four calls of the 'from_json' method to 'decode_json' inside the WWW::Metaweb module.

Also, the code snippet titled 'The Complicated Way' showing how to package a read query using the 'add_query' method fails for want of a query name.

You might want to replace it with something like the following:

$mh->add_query( 'read', 'my_first_query' => $query );
$mh->send_envelope( 'read' ) or die $WWW::Metaweb::errstr;

my $res_ok = $mh->result_is_ok( 'my_first_query' );

if ( $res_ok )
{
print "Yay, result is ok.\n";
}
else
{
print "Boo, result is toast.\n";
}

my $result = $mh->result( 'my_first_query', 'json' );

print $result . "\n";

Thanks again for developing the module.

Metaweb Framework: Duplicate of http://www.freebase.com/view/freebase/metaweb_framework

2007-09-17T09:12:37.0005Z

But you probably knew that?

The only thing that this one has over the other is the description, which is actually a pretty good idea.

Suburb: Australian location types

2007-09-10T23:58:59.0007Z

Thanks Jeff, good to know that we're in agreement here. I know the deprecation of the old "State" type in favour of "Administrative Division" has caused some confusion so it's great to hear something reasonably official about the direction this is heading.

K.

Suburb: Australian location types

2007-09-10T16:44:43.0007Z

I would also vote for "Australian Suburb" as the type name to avoid confusion. The goal in the location domain is to have country-specific types for all divisions of every country, many of which will have the same or similar names, so using the name of the country in the type name is going to be crucial in keeping them separate.

Suburb: Australian location types

2007-09-09T14:11:13.0005Z

Hi Hayden!

I've been working on Australian location data too. I've got the following types:

Australian State
Australian Territory
Australian Municipality (which I might rename to Australian Local Government Area, not sure yet)

For each of these I have used "Administrative District" as an included type. I was putting a bit of thought into suburbs when I discovered that you'd already started on it.

In my experience suburbs vary wildly from country to country. I mean, the concept of what a suburb *is* varies; the word itself means something very different in the US from what it means here, for example. They'd never refer to "Melbourne" or "Wagga Wagga" as suburbs, say. In Australia, a suburb is an official area with an official boundary and an official postal code assigned to it. In the US, the term just means "an area that's not urban and not rural". So I think this type should probably be called "Australian Suburb" if you're going to do it, and let other countries set up their own ideas of location. When it comes to generalising, about the best you can get is "Administrative Division" and even that doesn't work for anything.

K.