Prior to this commit Datasette would calculate the content hash of every
database and redirect to a URL containing that hash, like so:
https://v0-27.datasette.io/fixtures => https://v0-27.datasette.io/fixtures-dd88475
This assumed that all databases were opened in immutable mode and were not
expected to change.
This will be changing as a result of #419 - so this commit takes the first step
in implementing that change by changing this default behaviour. Datasette will
now only redirect hash-free URLs under two circumstances:
* The new `hash_urls` config option is set to true (it defaults to false).
* The user passes `?_hash=1` in the URL
The fixtures database created by our unit tests makes for a good "live" demo
of Datasette in action.
I've improved the metadata it ships with to better support this use-case.
I've also improved the mechanism for writing out fixtures: you can do this:
python tests/fixtures.py fixtures.db
To get just the fixtures database written out... or you can do this:
python tests/fixtures.py fixtures.db fixtures.json
To get metadata which you can then serve like so:
datasette fixtures.db -m fixtures.json
Refs #313
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.
https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1875 made it impossible to declare
a function as a fixture multiple times, which we were doing across different
modules. The fix was to move our @pytest.fixture calls into decorators in the
tests/fixtures.py module.
We now display sort options as a select box plus a descending checkbox, which
means you can apply sort orders even in portrait mode on a mobile phone where
the column headers are hidden.
Closes#199
You can now explicitly set which columns in a table can be used for sorting
using the _sort and _sort_desc arguments using metadata.json:
{
"databases": {
"database1": {
"tables": {
"example_table": {
"sortable_columns": [
"height",
"weight"
]
}
}
}
}
}
Refs #189
If you set the source_url/license_url/source/license fields in your root
metadata those values will now be inherited all the way down to the database
and table templates.
The title/description are NOT inherited.
Also added unit tests for the HTML generated by the metadata.
Refs #185
Simon Willison