bcdc_query_geodata error

[ebambrick]

Hi,
I have been using the bcdata package for a while now and it's awesome!!
I regularly retrieve a filtered version of the forest tenure harvest authority polygons data, but this week an error message is returned:

DMK_harv_authority <- bcdc_query_geodata('cff7b8f7-6897-444f-8c53-4bb93c7e9f8b') %>%
filter(GEOGRAPHIC_DISTRICT_CODE == "DMK") %>%
collect()

Error: Can't find columns name, type in .data.`

I also tried to download the entire dataset (not ideal because it's so big):

prov_harv_auth <- bcdc_get_data(record = 'cff7b8f7-6897-444f-8c53-4bb93c7e9f8b', resource = 'b66b136e-433b-474e-a33c-3c31fd7e0c02')'

And the same error was returned along with some warnings (this code was copied directly from the bcdc_get_record('cff7b8f7-6897-444f-8c53-4bb93c7e9f8b') output):

Error: Can't find columns name, type in .data.
Call rlang::last_error() to see a backtrace.
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In xpath_search(x$node, x$doc, xpath = xpath, nsMap = ns, num_results = Inf) :
Undefined namespace prefix [1219]
2: Unknown or uninitialised column: 'type'.
3: Unknown or uninitialised column: 'nillable'.

I checked the data bc webpage (https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/forest-tenure-harvesting-authority-polygons) and noticed that the wms download returns a 404 error rather than an xml as would be expected. Maybe related?

Any help would be appreciated!!
Thanks!

[boshek]

👋 @ebambrick

Thanks for the report. Your usage of bcdata is correct and nothing has changed with the package. Rather this is an issue with data in the catalogue. It has been reported though I do not have any timeline when this particular WFS record will be available again.

[ateucher]

My thanks as well @ebambrick - @boshek we should catch these 404 errors more elegantly.

[ebambrick]

Thanks!
I'll close this issue and wait for it to be resolved at data bc.