Dataverse Alias shows in the URL

[eaquigley]

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Author Name: Elizabeth Quigley (@eaquigley)
Original Redmine Issue: 3649, https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/3649
Original Date: 2014-03-06
Original Assignee: Gustavo Durand

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Currently, the alias a user enters in for a dataverse doesn't appear in the URL so this ticket is a reminder that it needs to happen.

https://trello.com/c/ZUbdgjRc/20-urls has a link to Pretty URLs for JavaServer Faces and Java Application Servers | OCPsoft - http://ocpsoft.org/prettyfaces/

[eaquigley]

Related to #331 and #621

[pdurbin]

Once this feature has been implemented, when I send a link to my dataverse, what will the link look like? What if my dataverse is deep within a tree? Would it look like the third option below?

• http://dataverse.example.com/pdurbin
• http://dataverse.example.com/iqss/pdurbin
• http://dataverse.example.com/iqss/datascience/pdurbin

I guess I'm wondering how pretty we can make our URLs. I'm also wondering if we're going to have our URLs reflect the dataverse's position in the tree. Back at #123 (comment) I was wondering if we could/should support use of the same alias as long as it's in a different namespace (e.g. cars vs. cats), like this:

• http://dataverse.example.com/cats/jaguar
• http://dataverse.example.com/cars/jaguar

[scolapasta]

I think we should not support that - I think it makes the URLs longer than
they may need to be AND when we implement moving, it would break URLs.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Philip Durbin [email protected]
wrote:

Once this feature has been implemented, when I send a link to my
dataverse, what will the link look like? What if my dataverse is deep
within a tree? Would it look like the third option below?

• http://dataverse.example.com/pdurbin
• http://dataverse.example.com/iqss/pdurbin
• http://dataverse.example.com/iqss/datascience/pdurbin

I guess I'm wondering how pretty we can make our URLs. I'm also wondering
if we're going to have our URLs reflect the dataverse's position in the
tree. Back at #123 (comment)
#123 (comment) I
was wondering if we could/should support use of the same alias as long as
it's in a different namespace (e.g. cars vs. cats), like this:

• http://dataverse.example.com/cats/janguar
• http://dataverse.example.com/cars/janguar

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#235 (comment).

[mercecrosas]

Agreed. we should keep the urls short for dataverse, without using the
tree. This is also closer to what people expect now in current production.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:35 PM, scolapasta [email protected]
wrote:

I think we should not support that - I think it makes the URLs longer than
they may need to be AND when we implement moving, it would break URLs.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Philip Durbin [email protected]
wrote:

Once this feature has been implemented, when I send a link to my
dataverse, what will the link look like? What if my dataverse is deep
within a tree? Would it look like the third option below?

• http://dataverse.example.com/pdurbin
• http://dataverse.example.com/iqss/pdurbin
• http://dataverse.example.com/iqss/datascience/pdurbin

I guess I'm wondering how pretty we can make our URLs. I'm also
wondering
if we're going to have our URLs reflect the dataverse's position in the
tree. Back at #123 (comment)
#123 (comment) I
was wondering if we could/should support use of the same alias as long
as
it's in a different namespace (e.g. cars vs. cats), like this:

• http://dataverse.example.com/cats/janguar
• http://dataverse.example.com/cars/janguar

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#235 (comment).

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#235 (comment).

[rtreacy]

Pretty Faces/Rewrite has been integrated into the project. Now it is just a matter of configuring individual pages in pretty-config.xml

[pdurbin]

Agreed. we should keep the urls short for dataverse, without using the tree.

This means that there can only be one dataverse alias/URL for common words like "health" or "Canada". It's a bit of a name grab, like getting the Twitter username you want.

[mercecrosas]

I wonder if we could make it a choice - datavere admins can choose either
using the tree or not in the alias. I imagine though that nobody will want
the root, that is, do we want to support:

dataverse.harvard.edu/harvard/hms/mylab

or

datavere.harvard.edu/hms/mylab

?

Should we ask the community for their opinion?

Merce

Mercè Crosas, Ph.D.
Director of Data Science, IQSS
Harvard University
http://iq.harvard.edu/merce-crosas

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Philip Durbin [email protected]
wrote:

Agreed. we should keep the urls short for dataverse, without using the
tree.

This means that there can only be one dataverse alias/URL for common words
like "health" or "Canada". It's a bit of a name grab, like getting the
Twitter username you want.

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#235 (comment).

[esotiri]

Dataverse alias showing in URL however there is still work being done in relation to this.

Also @mcrosas question is not answered so I am keeping this ticket open and passing it to @scolapasta

[mercecrosas]

for sake of simplification and to make a decision soon, given our tight 4.0
schedule, let's not allow this or make it a choice. That is, we support
only:

dataverse.harvard.edu/mydataverse

In the future we could add additional options, once we hear of use cases
when this is needed. The breadcrumbs will already display the tree
structure.

Is this fine with everybody?

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:22 PM, esotiri [email protected] wrote:

Dataverse alias showing in URL however there is still work being done in
relation to this.

Also @mcrosas https://github.com/mcrosas question is not answered so I
am keeping this ticket open and passing it to @scolapasta
https://github.com/scolapasta

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#235 (comment).

[eaquigley]

Fine with me. Moving to Beta 9.

[scolapasta]

I'm fine with that. (I do wonder what happens if we allowed / as a valid character...)

I think for 4.0, everything is resolved. QA, pelase confirm.

[pdurbin]

I do wonder what happens if we allowed / as a valid character...

It would be good to test a dataverse alias with "/" in it since with SWORD since we split on "/".

[kcondon]

OK, this seems to be mostly done. The URL now appears as:
https://dvn-build.hmdc.harvard.edu/view-datataverse/subd2

"view-dataverse" replaces the tree and sub2 is the alias, regardless of where it is in the tree. The view-dataverse link was not specified so I am asking whether this is ok. I'm assuming so.

Alias is not appearing in the featured dataverse links.

[pdurbin]

Related: #2900