These new querystring arguments can be used to request expanded foreign keys
in both JSON and CSV formats.
?_labels=on turns on expansions for ALL foreign key columns
?_label=COLUMN1&_label=COLUMN2 can be used to pick specific columns to expand
e.g. `Street_Tree_List.json?_label=qSpecies&_label=qLegalStatus`
{
"rowid": 233,
"TreeID": 121240,
"qLegalStatus": {
"value" 2,
"label": "Private"
}
"qSpecies": {
"value": 16,
"label": "Sycamore"
}
"qAddress": "91 Commonwealth Ave",
...
}
The labels option also works for the HTML and CSV views.
HTML defaults to `?_labels=on`, so if you pass `?_labels=off` you can disable
foreign key expansion entirely - or you can use `?_label=COLUMN` to request
just specific columns.
If you expand labels on CSV you get additional columns in the output:
`/Street_Tree_List.csv?_label=qLegalStatus`
rowid,TreeID,qLegalStatus,qLegalStatus_label...
1,141565,1,Permitted Site...
2,232565,2,Undocumented...
I also refactored the existing foreign key expansion code.
Closes#233. Refs #266.
Tables and custom SQL query results can now be exported as CSV.
The easiest way to do this is to use the .csv extension, e.g.
/test_tables/facet_cities.csv
By default this is served as Content-Type: text/plain so you can see it in
your browser. If you want to download the file (using text/csv and with an
appropriate Content-Disposition: attachment header) you can do so like this:
/test_tables/facet_cities.csv?_dl=1
We link to the CSV and downloadable CSV URLs from the table and query pages.
The links use ?_size=max and so by default will return 1,000 rows.
Also fixes#303 - table names ending in .json or .csv are now detected and
URLs are generated that look like this instead:
/test_tables/table%2Fwith%2Fslashes.csv?_format=csv
The ?_format= option is available for everything else too, but we link to the
.csv / .json versions in most cases because they are aesthetically pleasing.
New command-line argument which causes SpatiaLite to be installed and
configured for the published Datasette.
datasette publish now --spatialite mydb.db
If the user requests some _facet= options that do not successfully execute in
the configured facet_time_limit_ms, we now show a warning message like this:
These facets timed out: rowid, Title
To build this I had to clean up our SQLite interrupted logic. We now raise a
custom InterruptedError exception when SQLite terminates due to exceeding a
time limit.
In implementing this I found and fixed a logic error where invalid SQL was
being generated in some cases for our faceting calculations but the resulting
sqlite3.OperationalError had been incorrectly captured and treated as a
timeout.
Refs #255Closes#269
* New --plugins-dir=plugins/ option
New option causing Datasette to load and evaluate all of the Python files in
the specified directory and register any plugins that are defined in those
files.
This new option is available for the following commands:
datasette serve mydb.db --plugins-dir=plugins/
datasette publish now/heroku mydb.db --plugins-dir=plugins/
datasette package mydb.db --plugins-dir=plugins/
* Unit tests for --plugins-dir=plugins/
Closes#211
New _shape= parameter replacing old .jsono extension
Now instead of this:
/database/table.jsono
We use the _shape parameter like this:
/database/table.json?_shape=objects
Also introduced a new _shape called 'object' which looks like this:
/database/table.json?_shape=object
Returning an object for the rows key:
...
"rows": {
"pk1": {
...
},
"pk2": {
...
}
}
Refs #122
Heroku deploys are currently showing the following warning:
The latest version of Python 3 is python-3.6.3 (you are using python-3.6.2, which is unsupported).
We recommend upgrading by specifying the latest version (python-3.6.3).
Example usage:
datasette package --static css:extra-css/ --static js:extra-js/ \
sf-trees.db --template-dir templates/ --tag sf-trees --branch master
This creates a local Docker image that includes copies of the templates/,
extra-css/ and extra-js/ directories. You can then run it like this:
docker run -p 8001:8001 sf-trees
For publishing to Zeit now:
datasette publish now --static css:extra-css/ --static js:extra-js/ \
sf-trees.db --template-dir templates/ --name sf-trees --branch master
Example: https://sf-trees-wbihszoazc.now.sh/sf-trees-02c8ef1/Street_Tree_List
For publishing to Heroku:
datasette publish heroku --static css:extra-css/ --static js:extra-js/ \
sf-trees.db --template-dir templates/ --branch master
Closes#157, #160
Refs #153
Every template now gets CSS classes in the body designed to support custom
styling.
The index template (the top level page at /) gets this:
<body class="index">
The database template (/dbname/) gets this:
<body class="db db-dbname">
The table template (/dbname/tablename) gets:
<body class="table db-dbname table-tablename">
The row template (/dbname/tablename/rowid) gets:
<body class="row db-dbname table-tablename">
The db-x and table-x classes use the database or table names themselves IF
they are valid CSS identifiers. If they aren't, we strip any invalid
characters out and append a 6 character md5 digest of the original name, in
order to ensure that multiple tables which resolve to the same stripped
character version still have different CSS classes.
Some examples (extracted from the unit tests):
"simple" => "simple"
"MixedCase" => "MixedCase"
"-no-leading-hyphens" => "no-leading-hyphens-65bea6"
"_no-leading-underscores" => "no-leading-underscores-b921bc"
"no spaces" => "no-spaces-7088d7"
"-" => "336d5e"
"no $ characters" => "no--characters-59e024"
