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Notification for duplicated API entries or other issues require user actions

Open newgene opened this issue 5 years ago • 6 comments

The registered API entry in SmartAPI is differential from each other based on the URL of its API metadata. If you register an URL which exists already, you will see an error msg. However, this does not prevent someone to make a copy of the existing API metadata and register it using a different URL (even though the content is the same).

To maintain the high quality of SmartAPI registry, we will notify users who submitted those duplicated API entries below, so that they can delete them (click your icon at top-right corner, you can access the dashboard to delete an API you registered). If we don't hear any reply in two weeks, we will delete those API entries and noted below.

Note: It's OK to submit a duplicated API entry just for the testing purpose (especially for new users), but we always ask you to delete it after you are done with the testing.

Hint: In case you did not notice, we actually provide a "Dry run only" check box on the "Add an API" page. You can check this box to test your API registration process (e.g. testing if your API metadata is valid) without actually creating a "real" API entry.

newgene avatar Mar 11 '19 21:03 newgene