Re: Search & offset

Ha ha, that was stupid. Thanks!!

Wieland Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hallo [email protected]:
>> I am playing around with musicbrainz and am running into a problem with 
>> paged search results. See the first query below, offset has been set to 
>> zero, search results are returned, all fine. Then I set the offset to 25 
>> (second query) and am surprised to get the exact same results as the 
>> first query. Please tell me what I am doing wrong here. 
>>  
>> Thanks, 
>>  
>> Jos 
>>  
>>  
>> curl 
>> http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/?query=artist:artistname=sting&offset=0
>> [...]
>> curl 
>> http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/?query=artist:artistname=sting&offset=25
>> [...]
>
>You need to put the URL into quotes, otherwise your shell will treat the
>ampersand as a signal to background the curl process in a subshell and
>treat "offset=25" as a simple assignment to a variable called "offset".
>
>Then
>
>> curl "http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/?query=artist:artistname=sting&offset=0"
>
>and
>
>> curl "http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/?query=artist:artistname=sting&offset=25"
>
>will show different results.
>
>-- 
>Wieland