stations/query does not return any stations

[Colum31]

When I try to query a station by the name, the API always returns an empty response.

To reproduce (the example in the documentation):

curl 'https://v5.vbb.transport.rest/stations?query=mehringd' -s | jq

Best regards
Daniel

[derhuerst]

I will look at this once I'm back at my computer, probably on Tuesday.

If you want to dig into this in the meantime, the logic for this is in vbb-stations-autocomplete.

[derhuerst]

This happens because vbb-rest#5 uses an outdated version of vbb-stations (^4), which contains a list of all VBB stations. For now, I suggest using the /locations?query=… route, which uses HAFAS underneath instead of vbb-stations:

curl 'https://v5.vbb.transport.rest/locations?query=mehringd&addresses=false&poi=false&results=3' -s | jq

[
	{
		"type": "stop",
		"id": "900000017101",
		"stationDHID": "de:11000:900017101",
		"name": "U Mehringdamm",
		"location": {
			"type": "location",
			"id": "900017101",
			"latitude": 52.49357,
			"longitude": 13.388138
		},
		"products": {
			"suburban": false,
			"subway": true,
			"tram": false,
			"bus": true,
			"ferry": false,
			"express": false,
			"regional": false
		},
	},
	// …
]