Merge pull request #291 from openml/benchmarkpaper

for bypassing api checking

Author: janvanrijn

openml/_api_calls.py

@@ -104,11 +104,16 @@ def _read_url_files(url, data=None, file_dictionary=None, file_elements=None):
 def _read_url(url, data=None):
 
     data = {} if data is None else data
-    data['api_key'] = config.apikey
-
-    # Using requests.post sets header 'Accept-encoding' automatically to
-    # 'gzip,deflate'
-    response = requests.post(url, data=data)
+    if config.apikey is not None:
+        data['api_key'] = config.apikey
+
+    if len(data) == 0 or (len(data) == 1 and 'api_key' in data):
+        # do a GET
+        response = requests.get(url, params=data)
+    else: # an actual post request
+        # Using requests.post sets header 'Accept-encoding' automatically to
+        #  'gzip,deflate'
+        response = requests.post(url, data=data)
 
     if response.status_code != 200:
         raise _parse_server_exception(response)

openml/study/functions.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def get_study(study_id):
     Note that some of the (data, tasks, flows, setups) fields can be empty
     (depending on information on the server)
     '''
-    xml_string = _perform_api_call("study/%d" %(study_id))
+    xml_string = _perform_api_call("study/%s" %str(study_id))
     result_dict = xmltodict.parse(xml_string)['oml:study']
     id = int(result_dict['oml:id'])
     name = result_dict['oml:name']