rss.do r parameter (unreleased/forgotten feature?)

[abubelinha]

In #1859 I wondered how to limit xml output of rss.do page (so you only get the datasource item/s you are interested).

Now I found something else:

Passing a query r=resource-name parameter in the url has no effect in limiting the output to only one item (same output as the page url without parameters): https://ipt.gbif-uat.org/rss.do https://ipt.gbif-uat.org/rss.do?r=fake-test

But if you pass it and the name does not match any of the IPT resources ... oddly the IPT returns an error page (404). https://ipt.gbif-uat.org/rss.do?r=incorrect-fake-test-name

So it seems that r parameter is actually being taken into account for something.

Probably it was intended to limit the output ... but seems to be an unfinished work. I don't know if that parameter is documented somewhere or not. If it is not, then this is not a bug (just a future unfinished feature).

But I wanted to report it, just in case.

BTW ... if this feature is even released, it might be useful letting r be a list of resources with some separator string, so you can get them all in just one call. https://ipt.gbif-uat.org/rss.do?r=resource-1|another-resource

[mike-podolskiy90]

@abubelinha Thank you for reporting this. I'll check it