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Alex Garcia f73128dea6 Trace callback-style calls: execute_fn, execute_write_fn, execute_isolated_fn
The database instrumentation covered the four SQL-string entry points but
not the callback entry points, which are the documented way for plugins to
run arbitrary SQL - so the JSON write API's inserts and deletes, the
startup catalog scan, and every plugin built on execute_fn/execute_write_fn
were invisible to a trace, or worse, showed orphan-looking db.write.* spans
with no db.query above them.

Each callback method now opens the same db.query CLIENT span as its
SQL-string sibling, carrying a new optional datasette.callback attribute
(the callable's qualified name, captured before _wrap_fn_with_hooks() can
rename it) in place of db.query.text, which is now marked optional. A bare
execute_fn() also wraps the callback in a db.query.execute child, so the
"gap between the spans is thread-wait" story holds for plugin callbacks
too. No db.operation.name: there is no statement to take a keyword from,
and the registry says that attribute is omitted rather than guessed.

The previous bodies move to private _execute_fn()/_execute_write_fn() and
the SQL-string methods call those, so an execute() emits exactly the spans
it did before - pinned by test_execute_does_not_double_wrap. Database's own
introspection helpers stay on the public method deliberately: they are real
SQLite round trips, which lifts a table page from ~58 to ~100 (no-op) spans.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012U7coQfVu8nK2R4q2mCULA
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Datasette

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An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape or size and publish that as an interactive, explorable website and accompanying API.

Datasette is aimed at data journalists, museum curators, archivists, local governments, scientists, researchers and anyone else who has data that they wish to share with the world.

Explore a demo, watch a video about the project or try it out on GitHub Codespaces.

Want to stay up-to-date with the project? Subscribe to the Datasette newsletter for tips, tricks and news on what's new in the Datasette ecosystem.

Installation

If you are on a Mac, Homebrew is the easiest way to install Datasette:

brew install datasette

You can also install it using pip or pipx:

pip install datasette

Datasette requires Python 3.8 or higher. We also have detailed installation instructions covering other options such as Docker.

Basic usage

datasette serve path/to/database.db

This will start a web server on port 8001 - visit http://localhost:8001/ to access the web interface.

serve is the default subcommand, you can omit it if you like.

Use Chrome on OS X? You can run datasette against your browser history like so:

 datasette ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History --nolock

Now visiting http://localhost:8001/History/downloads will show you a web interface to browse your downloads data:

Downloads table rendered by datasette

metadata.json

If you want to include licensing and source information in the generated datasette website you can do so using a JSON file that looks something like this:

{
    "title": "Five Thirty Eight",
    "license": "CC Attribution 4.0 License",
    "license_url": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "source": "fivethirtyeight/data on GitHub",
    "source_url": "https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data"
}

Save this in metadata.json and run Datasette like so:

datasette serve fivethirtyeight.db -m metadata.json

The license and source information will be displayed on the index page and in the footer. They will also be included in the JSON produced by the API.

datasette publish

If you have Heroku or Google Cloud Run configured, Datasette can deploy one or more SQLite databases to the internet with a single command:

datasette publish heroku database.db

Or:

datasette publish cloudrun database.db

This will create a docker image containing both the datasette application and the specified SQLite database files. It will then deploy that image to Heroku or Cloud Run and give you a URL to access the resulting website and API.

See Publishing data in the documentation for more details.

Datasette Lite

Datasette Lite is Datasette packaged using WebAssembly so that it runs entirely in your browser, no Python web application server required. Read more about that in the Datasette Lite documentation.