Quickstatements csv importer can't handle external IDs

[Remko de Keijzer]

The quickstatements csv importer can't handle external IDs like P345 (IMDb id) I get the following result: ADD LAST ITEM IMDb ID [P345] {"type":"unknown","text":"nm6848183"}
When I use the v1 importer Like LAST P345 "nm6848183" I get a correct result. In some cases it's easier to use the CSV importer, so really want this fixed

[Iván Hernández Cazorla]

It seems similar to what happens to me with some external identifiers but not all.

[Remko de Keijzer]

Thanks for the screenshot @ivanhercaz. The issue seems to happen when the External ID contains non-digits (or combination of digits and non-digits) Just did a simple test. Input data:

qid,P2536
Q4115189,12345
Q4115189,aa12345
Q4115189,"aa12345"
Q4115189,abcd
Q4115189,"abcd"
Q4115189,a-b
Q4115189,"a-b"
Q4115189,'Q4115189'
Q4115189,"12345"
Q4115189,'12345'
Q4115189,12-34

And this was the result: So the issue is when the value isn't all digits. (And single quotes make it non-digit)

[Iván Hernández Cazorla]

Thank you, @mbch331! So, it should be fixed because the identifiers sometimes are composed of digits and non digit. I hope @magnusmanske knows how to fix it, because I like very much the new CSS file syntax for QuickStatements, it is very useful!

Two days ago I posted a similar issue (#83) with external URLs.

[Lucas Werkmeister]

See also this topic on Wikidata. (TL;DR: try enclosing in """)

[Iván Hernández Cazorla]

@lucaswerkmeister, in relation with #83, I also try enclosing the value in """ but it didn't work :/ I haven't tried QuickStatements for a long time, but I have to test if my issues was solved. Thank you for the link to the topic, I will watch it :)