Hi James, I can confirm we have a bug requesting the language via http header. I've created a jira for this: http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2411
Thanks! Markus On 21 Aug 2014, at 09:38, Markus D?ring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote: > Hi James, > it is correct that we default to english for non existing languages. I agree > it might be confusing when you requested sth different and it might be hard > to tell what language that name actually represents. > We will consider returning null in those cases. > > As for the http headers Ill take a look and file a bug report. > Thanks! > > Markus > > > > On 21 Aug 2014, at 03:26, Nozomi James Ytow <nozomi at biol.tsukuba.ac.jp> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> SpeciesAPI document >> http://www.gbif.org/developer/species >> specifies language parameter of simple get species, i.e. species/{int}. >> Language parameter is explained at >> http://www.gbif.org/developer/species#p_language >> as "default=en or use HTTP header for this", >> >> I tried to specify 'de' in HTTP header as Language request property, >> but it doesn't work. Instead, >> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/5231190?language=de works fine. >> Do I misunderstand the documentation? >> >> I also tried languages are not included in vernacular names list >> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/5231190/vernacularNames >> such as http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/5231190?language=ja or zh or kr... >> I expected empty field for vernacularName or no record returned, but I got >> English one. >> It is misleading implementation that one ignorant of the language specified >> can misundarstand >> that the language uses the same word with English. >> I suggest to return null vernacularName if vernacular name of specified >> language is unavailable. >> >> Cheers, >> James >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> API-users mailing list >> API-users at lists.gbif.org >> http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users >
