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EDIutils

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Velocity0.0

An API Client for the Environmental Data Initiative Repository

github.com/ropensci/EDIutils ↗

The EDI data client is being dragged through its repository's identity-system migration.

ropenscir-packageapi-clientecologyauthenticationdata-repository
◆Current state
EDIutils is the R client for the Environmental Data Initiative repository. The last two releases are both consequences of changes at EDI rather than in the package: 2.0.0 rewired authentication for the new EDI Identity and Access Manager and made Distinguished Names defunct in favour of EDI-IDs, and 2.1.0 handles the deprecation of the old auth token. Earlier releases were small bug fixes against repository outages and endpoint changes.
◆Where it's heading
This is a client whose roadmap belongs to its server. Every meaningful release tracks something EDI changed — a deprecated endpoint, a resource outage breaking CRAN checks, and now a whole identity system — and the package's job is to absorb the churn while keeping the R interface stable. The 2.0.0 break was handled by pointing users at where to find their new EDI-ID rather than by papering over the change.
◆Prediction
Expect continued follow-through on the IAM migration as the old auth token is fully retired, and further releases keyed to EDI service changes rather than to new client features.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3mo ago

    Graceful handling for the deprecated auth token

    The client now degrades gracefully as the old auth-token mechanism is deprecated, continuing the IAM migration started in 2.0.0. Short note, but it is what keeps existing scripts from failing outright.

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  2. 7mo ago

    EDI-IDs replace Distinguished Names as authentication moves to IAM

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    create_dn() is defunct and two listing functions now require an EDI-ID instead of a Distinguished Name, alongside support for EDI's new Identity and Access Manager. The package's entire authentication model changed underneath its users in one release.

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  3. 2y ago

    Deprecated archive endpoint fixed

    read_data_package_archive() stops calling a deprecated endpoint, and the docs gain an example for retrieving the newest version of a data package. Routine upstream-tracking work of the kind that dominates this package's history.

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  4. 3y ago

    CRAN check fixed after EDI repository outage

    A failing CRAN check caused by outages in the EDI repository is worked around. Test-infrastructure hardening against a service the package cannot control.

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  5. 4y ago

    Character encoding bug fixed in a dependency path

    A character encoding bug surfacing through the vcr dependency is fixed. Narrow enough that most users would never have hit it.

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