Importing OSF DOIs via the Publications edit tab

[allysonlister]

I cannot retrieve 10.17605/OSF.IO/9r62x from the Publications page. It's an OSF DOI. When I press Import DOI it just spins and hangs.

@knirirr asked me to make a ticket, and says: Behind the scenes a CORS problem prevents crosscite.org from redirecting to osf.io. So, not strictly a hang, but the Javascript doesn't exit cleanly and reload the buttons.

[knirirr]

Is this actually an article? https://osf.io/9r62x/
It looks to me like the description of a resource.

What happens is that dx.doi.org doesn't get any hits, so data.crosscite.org is called next and does two things:

1. Returns some search results which aren't what you're looking for, then...
2. Attempts to load the web page at osf.io (not their API, if they have one), which fails with a CORS error.

I think that the proper solution here would be to attempt to catch the error at (2) and return gracefully from that; the results at (1) aren't correct and I can't deal with the redirection to a web page.

EDIT: osf.io has an API: https://developer.osf.io/

The only way to get this to work (assuming publications are being sought) is to write a new query to look for publications in osf.io directly, once the previous two have failed.

[allysonlister]

ah, i see, so dx.doi.org doesn't return anything because it's not of the correct type?

Yes, it is essentially an OSF directory containing a variety of things including documents but also including all past versions of the database.

Would other osf dois that point to publications/documents/manuscripts work?

[knirirr]

ah, i see, so dx.doi.org doesn't return anything because it's not of the correct type?

I believe so.

Would other osf dois that point to publications/documents/manuscripts work?

I don't know. Do you happen to have any to try?

[allysonlister]

Try https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/3WQPR

It's a pdf but should work as adocument. however it is of resource type "other". You may need to just search osf for an appropriate resource type and take its doi.

[knirirr]

Searching OSF will require writing new API queries; data.crosscite.org doesn't redirect correctly and so can't be used.
This will need a new PR, so please would you review the current one (which at least removes a crash) and I'll start another when I have time.

Example: https://osf.io/zn79k/, 10.17605/OSF.IO/ZN79K