Unexposed fields?

[mustberuss]

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Hi, I'm a first time issue creator who's hoping I'm doing this correctly.

Someone posted in the patentsview api forum that the examiner_id is not present. It's a moderated list so my reply doesn't show up yet but I think the problem is here. The api does return the field in a browser request or in R doing a get on the endpoint. It's always coming back as null which is an api issue but shouldn't it be accessible in this package? I got the same error the poster got with the stable and dev packages.

I wrote a perl script to scrape and compare the api's endpoint pages to fieldsdf.csv It shows that the examiner fields are missing in fieldsdf.csv for all 7 endpoints. I've attached the fields my script thinks are missing. I could fork or pull something if this is an issue

github and R novice

[crew102]

Greetings @mustberuss, thanks for the heads up. Yes, regarding the fact that it shouldn't be coming back as null in your browser (perhaps open up an issue here for that: https://github.com/CSSIP-AIR/PatentsView-API), and yes, the patentsview r package should nevertheless be passing those nulls along. You can re-run the script that pulls the latest fields from the API's website (as I just have) and open a PR request for the package to update the fields. The dev version of patentsview should work for you now.

[mustberuss]

@crew102, that is too cool! You are correct, my dev version is working now. PR opened.