Name API match endpoint

15448
Reporter: feedback bot
Type: Feedback
Summary: Name API match endpoint
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Closed
Created: 2014-03-27 06:16:40.817
Updated: 2014-04-29 11:30:38.781
Resolved: 2014-04-29 11:30:38.722
        
        
Description: Hi,

Did the match species/match endpoint behavior change recently?  It seems that a call like this http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/species/match?name=Helianthus used to give a single match result for the genus Helianthus, but now gives

{
synonym: false,
confidence: 100,
note: "Multiple equal matches for Helianthus",
matchType: "NONE"
}

Seems like behavior has changed to give back this message if no single match found?  Was one of many best matches returned before?  Or am I mistaken and behavior hasn't changed?  I know I can use verbose=true to get alternative matches.

Thanks! Scott Chamberlain

*Reporter*: Scott Chamberlain
*E-mail*: [mailto:scott@ropensci.org]]]>
    

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Comment: This was a bad clb content issue due to a manually inserted spieder record some time ago causing the nublookup to load all datasets, not just the GBIF backbone. Fixed
Created: 2014-04-29 11:30:38.779
Updated: 2014-04-29 11:30:38.779