[db-wg] New minor release 1.71.1 to fix REST API JSON issue

Dear Job,

We’re looking into this issue right now and will let you know as soon as we have a fix available.

Kind regards,

Johan Åhlén
Assistant Manager Database
RIPE NCC

On 06 Feb 2014, at 19:23, Job Snijders <job.snijders at hibernianetworks.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 06:53:14PM +0100, Job Snijders wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 05:31:03PM +0100, Denis Walker wrote:
>>> Dear colleagues,
>>> 
>>> We have identified the cause of the REST API JSON issues some users have
>>> been experiencing. Details can be found on github:
>>> https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/issues/114
>>> 
>>> We deployed a new minor version (1.71.1) of the RIPE Database software
>>> today at 17:15 (UTC +1) to fix this issue.
>>> 
>>> Release notes can be found here:
>>> https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/release-notes
>> 
>> It seems that the JSON structure changed. <snip>
> 
> Looking at the logs breakage seems to have started on the fourth of
> feburary somewhere in the morning. 
> 
> I used ot be able to call mp-members in a route-set exposed through the
> JSON API like this:
> 
>    r.json()['whois-resources']['objects']['object']['attributes']['attribute']
> 
> But now I have to access them like this:
> 
>    r.json()['objects']['object'][0]['attributes']['attribute']
> 
> So the dictionary 'whois-resources' got popped and the object known as
> 'object' was converted from dictionary to a list? 
> 
> The effect is that some of my provisioning programs are broken now, and
> I don't know what the expected behaviour is right now, and will be
> tomorrow.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Job