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[Halvdan Hoem Grelland <halvdan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Right. I am actually not sure if this is supported on 2.21. On more recent
versions we support a content-type of 'application/json+zip', which you
could have tried, but I do not think this is available on 2.21 (it should
work on the demo server).

Do you have any insight Morten?

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Victor Garcia <vgarciabnz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is the cURL command I try:
>
> curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -u admin:district -d
> @datavalues.zip "https://play.dhis2.org/demo/api/dataValueSets.json.zip";
> -X POST
>
> The POST against DEMO server gives the same response that before. I tried
> with ".json", ".zip" and ".json.zip" extensions, but no success. The
> "datavalues.zip" only contains a valid .json file (sending this .json file
> uncompressed, the import works).
>
> If you want me to try something else, just tell me.
>
>
> On 28 July 2016 at 13:11, Halvdan Hoem Grelland <halvdan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Ah, my bad. I misread 'data' as 'meta data'.
>>
>> What is the exact request (including headers) you are using? Do you have
>> a reproducible cURL we could try?
>>
>> Also, what is the format of the zipped data file? (The error you are
>> seeing is the importer encountering a ZIP file header byte whilst expecting
>> valid JSON).
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Victor Garcia <vgarciabnz@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Just to clarify, I have tried using extensions, but it does not seem to
>>> work for "/api/dataValueSets" endpoint.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 28 July 2016 at 12:04, Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hm, yeah.. seems our data endpoint don't wrap it
>>>> using StreamUtils.wrapAndCheckCompressionFormat(), so that means it must be
>>>> manually applied.. should be an easy fix though
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Morten Olav Hansen
>>>> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
>>>> University of Oslo
>>>> http://www.dhis2.org
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Halvdan Hoem Grelland <
>>>> halvdan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Quickly glancing over the source code for this stuff: it seems to
>>>>> discern formats using extensions. For example, one would use a POST to
>>>>> api/metaData.json.zip or api/metaData.xml.gz.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you give that a try, Victor?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Did you try and simply send the data as a zipped file? I think we
>>>>>> support both gzip and zip, you don't need to do anything else than zip it
>>>>>> down before.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not 100% sure it will work, but this is how our metadata
>>>>>> endpoints work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Morten Olav Hansen
>>>>>> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
>>>>>> University of Oslo
>>>>>> http://www.dhis2.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Victor Garcia <vgarciabnz@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> searching in the documentation I couldn't find a way to import a
>>>>>>> data file in zip format through the API. I know it is possible to do it
>>>>>>> using the user interface (import/export module), but we need to use the
>>>>>>> API. Is it supported?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This problem arises in contexts with a poor connection, where large
>>>>>>> data exchanges are a pain.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Víctor
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Halvdan Hoem Grelland
>>>>> Software developer, DHIS 2
>>>>> University of Oslo
>>>>> http://www.dhis2.org <https://www.dhis2.org/>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Halvdan Hoem Grelland
>> Software developer, DHIS 2
>> University of Oslo
>> http://www.dhis2.org <https://www.dhis2.org/>
>>
>>
>


-- 
Halvdan Hoem Grelland
Software developer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
http://www.dhis2.org <https://www.dhis2.org/>