# Problem reading files from the pod
**URL:** https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819
**Category:** Build a Solid App
**Created:** [March 30, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819 "2020-03-30T16:19:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@aitorllanos99](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/aitorllanos99)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/1 "2020-03-30T16:19:50Z")
Hi everybody,
We are trying to access to some routes in our pods, but we cant manage to access to them.
we are trying to acces obtaining the document but we cant access to the route since we are on the routes folder
We are news in Solid, so im sorry if its a really basic question, and we appreciate your help.
If you need any other folder or part of code you can find it here: [https://github.com/Arquisoft/viade\_es5c/tree/RDF](https://github.com/Arquisoft/viade_es5c/tree/RDF)
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### Author:  [@aitorllanos99](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/aitorllanos99)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/2 "2020-03-30T16:41:26Z")
The route inside the pod is this:
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/3 "2020-03-30T16:46:34Z")
Hi @aitorllanos99, judging by your second screenshot, your route is in `/public/viade/routes/otro`. However, on [this line](https://github.com/Arquisoft/viade_es5c/blob/33a008c49606bfd8c41c831fd78cc66eb57d9fb5/src/parseo/parser/parserRDFToRoute/parserRDFToRoute.js#L43) you read the value from `/rutas/` - which does not exist. Thus, try `fc.readFolder(storage + 'public/viade/routes/otro')` instead, and see where that gets you š
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### Author:  [@aitorllanos99](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/aitorllanos99)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 8:51am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/4 "2020-03-31T08:51:46Z")
Hi @Vincent first of all thanks for answering!
Yeah we had already changed it but we didnt push it, im sorry to dont say it š
We have the problem when we try to get the subject #Route from the pod, because it doesnt find it, and we dont know why.
Again, thanks for answering!
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/5 "2020-03-31T09:49:45Z")
Alright, wellā¦ Is there a place where we _can_ see the current code? That would make it easier to helpā¦
So again, judging by your second screenshot, it looks like the route is actually called `#myRoute`, rather than `#Route`? That would explain why you canāt find it š
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### Author:  [@aitorllanos99](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/aitorllanos99)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/6 "2020-03-31T10:01:57Z")
Yes, weve already pushed it.
The link is [https://github.com/Arquisoft/viade\_es5c/tree/RDF](https://github.com/Arquisoft/viade_es5c/tree/RDF)
This code is in src/parseo/parserRDFToRoute
We changed that aswell, really sorry for the inconveniences for showing you an older code.
Thank you very much for your help.
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/7 "2020-03-31T10:35:21Z")
Thanks for the updated link. So [this line](https://github.com/Arquisoft/viade_es5c/blob/d370f5c24119a2bca1a8cbf80550cad86addc514/src/parseo/parser/parserRDFToRoute/parserRDFToRoute.js#L42) still says youāre looking in `public/viade/routes` - so without `/otro`. Have you tried `public/viade/routes/otro` as well?
If you did, what does the `console.log("RUTISA:" + route);` output?
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### Author:  [@aitorllanos99](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/aitorllanos99)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 10:40am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/8 "2020-03-31T10:40:58Z")
Yeah we tried, but its says that its null when we included /otro in the url of the folder.
about the output of the console it says.
There is where we are stucked. We cant accces to the properties of the route from there.
Again, really thankful for your reply
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/9 "2020-03-31T11:15:37Z")
Alright, that looks good! You can access the properties of that route using the listed methods, e.g. `route.getString('http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name')` and `route.getRef('http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type')`.
(Iām making some assumptions here about what your data looks like - if you have a link to the Pod containing the data in your second screenshot, I can verify that.)
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### Author:  [@aitorllanos99](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/aitorllanos99)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/10 "2020-03-31T11:20:16Z")
Thank you very much!.
The file to verify is in [https://aitorllanos99.solid.community/](https://aitorllanos99.solid.community/).
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### Author:  [@aitorllanos99](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/aitorllanos99)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/11 "2020-03-31T11:26:05Z")
Hi vincent,
WeĀ“ve tried what you said about this:
> [@Vincent](#):
>
> route.getString(ā[FOAF Vocabulary Specification](http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name)ā)
And it returns us nullā¦ Would you know why?
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/12 "2020-03-31T11:44:01Z")
Yes, hovering over `name` at [https://aitorllanos99.solid.community/public/viade/routes/otro](https://aitorllanos99.solid.community/public/viade/routes/otro), I see that itās not actually a `foaf:name` but a `schema:name`, so it would have to be `route.getString('http://schema.org/name')`.
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### Author:  [@Borjarguez](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Borjarguez)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/13 "2020-03-31T11:52:17Z")
Hi @Vincent ! First of all thank you so much for your help, it is very important for us. We have tried what you have just said but it doesnāt work eitherā¦ Here it is a new screenshot of what the code returns us:
You probably think that we donāt know nothing about this topic, but we are new and anyone has explained us how this āworldā works. Again, thank you so much for spending your time helping us!!
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/14 "2020-03-31T13:40:54Z")
No problem, happy to see you venturing into the world of Solid and persisting despite it all being new š
Alright, so thereās one more thing thatās going wrong here. Looking at [the route file](https://aitorllanos99.solid.community/public/viade/routes/otro), its contents is this:
```auto
@prefix viade: .
@prefix : .
@prefix schema: .
@prefix rdfs: .
@prefix xsd: .
:myRoute a viade:Route ;schema:name "otro" ;viade:point [schema:latitude -5.33935546875 ;schema:longitude 42.56926437219384 ;viade:order 1] ;viade:point [schema:latitude -5.80078125 ;schema:longitude 41.902277040963696 ;viade:order 2] ;viade:point [schema:latitude -4.85595703125 ;schema:longitude 42.049292638686836 ;viade:order 3] .
```
Most important here is this line:
```
@prefix : .
```
This means that, later in that document where it says `:myRoute`, the `:` gets replaced by `http://example.org/`. This means that the actual identifier of your route is `http://example.org/myRoute`, rather than `#myRoute`.
You can find a working code sample that uses that identifier here: [https://codesandbox.io/s/tripledoc-quickstart-8plts?fontsize=14&hidenavigation=1&theme=dark](https://codesandbox.io/s/tripledoc-quickstart-8plts?fontsize=14&hidenavigation=1&theme=dark)
However, the actual fix would be to replace that bit in your route with:
```
@prefix : <#>.
```
Then, the old version should (hopefully) work.
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### Author:  [@Borjarguez](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Borjarguez)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/15 "2020-03-31T14:52:04Z")
Thank you so much!! We are starting to understand more or less how RDF works. Now we know how to obtain things from schema like our routeās name. But for example, to obtain our routeās points seems to be different. We thought that the āobjectā route had some property that returned its points but seem not to work like that.
We also know how to obtain the points. As point has viadeās type, we deduced that āviade:ā would be replaced for its prefix, as you explained us before. So we did this:
**const points = routeDocument.getSubject(ā[http://arquisoft.github.io/viadeSpec/point](http://arquisoft.github.io/viadeSpec/point)ā);**
But for a reason we donāt understand yet, we canāt have its values as you explained us with the routeās name. Maybe a different method? ( i talk about a method like āgetSubject()ā) Thanks very much!!
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/16 "2020-03-31T15:17:48Z")
Great to hear! And yes, your points are a bit different, but I figured Iād first help you with the first steps so you can gradually learn how things fit together š
In RDF terms, the points on your route are _blank nodes_ (i.e. they donāt have a URL), whereas the route itself is a _named node_ (i.e. it has a URL: currently `http://example.org/myRoute`, though it shouldāve been `https://aitorllanos99.solid.community/public/viade/routes/otro#myRoute`).
So weāve been calling e.g. `getString()` to get properties of the route, but how can we do the same for points on that route?
In Tripledoc, the library youāre using to access the data, you can access those points through `getLocalSubject()` (to access one of them) and `getAllLocalSubjects()` (to access multiple).
So in code, you could get access to the points using:
```javascript
const points = route.getAllLocalSubjects('http://arquisoft.github.io/viadeSpec/point');
```
And then you can read values of a single point using the same methods you can use on the route, e.g.
```javascript
const firstPointOrder = points[0].getInteger('http://arquisoft.github.io/viadeSpec/order');
```
A working code example can be found here:
> **[tripledoc-quickstart - CodeSandbox](https://codesandbox.io/s/tripledoc-quickstart-sko7c?fontsize=14&hidenavigation=1&theme=dark)**
>
> tripledoc-quickstart using rdf-namespaces, solid-auth-client, tripledoc
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### Author:  [@aitorllanos99](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/aitorllanos99)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/17 "2020-03-31T15:29:39Z")
Vincent you dont know how really thankful we are for your help and for your lessons about RDF and how to work with it, this was really fructiferous, and we know much more about Solid.
From our heart, thanks in name of all our group.
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### Author:  [@Borjarguez](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Borjarguez)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/18 "2020-03-31T15:32:20Z")
@Vincent Thank you so so much for your advices!! Thanks to you i hate a little less this university project hahaha. Seriously, you donāt know how much you had helped us.
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/problem-reading-files-from-the-pod/2819/19 "2020-03-31T16:17:20Z")
Happy to hear youāre making progress! If you encounter more challenges, be sure to start a new topic in this forum! Thereās plenty of people willing to help, and itāll also be helpful to others who encounter the same problems in the future.