Pulling Competitors' Data

[lrmelt]

I am trying to pull competitors data via the public data add-on.

I am retrieving the proper data when I do:
getProducts("mine", store = "all",curlHandle,verbose = TRUE,orgJSON = FALSE)

However, when I do any call for competitors data I get this:
getProducts(5573695, store = "all",curlHandle,verbose = TRUE,orgJSON = FALSE) About to connect() to proxy PROXY port 8080 Trying 10.221.15.70... * connected Connected to PROXY port 8080 Establish HTTP proxy tunnel to api.appfigures.com:443 Server auth using Basic with user USER' CONNECT api.appfigures.com:443 HTTP/1.0 Host: api.appfigures.com:443 Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive X-Client-Key: KEY HTTP/1.1 200 Connection established Proxy replied OK to CONNECT request successfully set certificate verify locations: CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt CApath: none SSL connection using AES256-SHA Server certificate: subject: /C=US/postalCode=10002/ST=New York/L=New York/streetAddress=3rd Fl./streetAddress=133 Chrystie St/O=appFigures, Inc./OU=Web/OU=Hosted by Fileitup Media/OU=PremiumSSL Wildcard/CN=*.appfigures.com start date: 2015-03-13 00:00:00 GMT expire date: 2017-04-08 23:59:59 GMT subjectAltName: api.appfigures.com matched issuer: /C=US/ST=MN/L=CERT/O=ESI/OU=WSCT/CN=Decrypt Cert/emailAddress=CERT SSL certificate verify result: unable to get local issuer certificate (20), continuing anyway. Server auth using Basic with user 'USER' GET /v2//reviews?format=json&page=1&sort=date&start=2016-07-29&end=2016-08-29&products=5573695&count=25 HTTP/1.1 Authorization: Basic HASH Host: api.appfigures.com Accept: */* X-Client-Key: CLIENTKEY HTTP/1.1 200 OK Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 ETag: "WC6iaC05Nv7P0gOLnK6GOA==" X-Request-Limit: 1000 X-Request-Usage: 35 X-Partner-Credit-Cost: 1 X-Partner-Credits-Remaining: 5 X-Partner-Reason: Some given products are not owned by your account. (the first one is: 5573695) X-Server-ID: 13 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 22:29:54 GMT Cache-Control: private, proxy-revalidate Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive Connection: Keep-Alive Set-Cookie: SRV=; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT; path=/ Age: 0 Connection #0 to host HOST left intact Error: is.character(txt) is not TRUE

The Error: is.character(txt) is not TRUE is crashing when I call any data that is not mine.

What is the issue?

[lrmelt]

It looks like this is happening when the returned json is being parsed in each call. The returned json is not a character, but is a "raw" type in R.

Here is a sample output of the returned raw from getReviews(orgJSON=TRUE,verbose=TRUE):
[1] 7b 0d 0a 20 20 22 74 6f 74 61 6c 22 3a 20 32 39 38 2c 0d 0a 20 20 22 70 61 67 65 73 22 3a 20 31 32 2c 0d 0a 20 [38] 20 22 74 68 69 73 5f 70 61 67 65 22 3a 20 31 2c 0d 0a 20 20 22 72 65 76 69 65 77 73 22 3a 20 5b 0d 0a 20 20 20

When orgJSON=FALSE we get Error: is.character(txt) is not TRUE.

However when I do getProducts("mine", store = "all",curlHandle,verbose = TRUE,orgJSON = FALSE) the json is returned properly as type character so the parser works.

This would leave me to believe that the web service is not returning valid JSON...leading it to force the type "raw" thereby breaking the parser.

[LucasDowiak]

lrmelt - we're looking into this issue. Could you tell us what platform you are using and what version of R, jsonlite, and RCurl you are currently working with?

Thanks,
Lucas