Binary columns (including spatialite geographies) get shown as ugly
binary strings in the HTML by default. Nobody wants to see that mess.
Show the size of the column in bytes instead. If you want to decode
the binary data, you can use a plugin to do it.
Datasette previously only supported one type of faceting: exact column value counting.
With this change, faceting logic is extracted out into one or more separate classes which can implement other patterns of faceting - this is discussed in #427, but potential upcoming facet types include facet-by-date, facet-by-JSON-array, facet-by-many-2-many and more.
A new plugin hook, register_facet_classes, can be used by plugins to add in additional facet classes.
Each class must implement two methods: suggest(), which scans columns in the table to decide if they might be worth suggesting for faceting, and facet_results(), which executes the facet operation and returns results ready to be displayed in the UI.
Thanks @russss!
* Add register_output_renderer hook
This changeset refactors out the JSON renderer and then adds a hook and
dispatcher system to allow custom output renderers to be registered.
The CSV output renderer is untouched because supporting streaming
renderers through this system would be significantly more complex, and
probably not worthwhile.
We can't simply allow hooks to be called at request time because we need
a list of supported file extensions when the request is being routed in
order to resolve ambiguous database/table names. So, renderers need to
be registered at startup.
I've tried to make this API independent of Sanic's request/response
objects so that this can remain stable during the switch to ASGI. I'm
using dictionaries to keep it simple and to make adding additional
options in the future easy.
Fixes#440
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
* table.csv?_stream=1 to download all rows - refs #266
This option causes Datasette to serve ALL rows in the table, by internally
following the _next= pagination links and serving everything out as a stream.
Also added new config option, allow_csv_stream, which can be used to disable
this feature.
* New config option max_csv_mb limiting size of CSV export
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.
Removed the --page_size= argument to datasette serve in favour of:
datasette serve --config default_page_size:50 mydb.db
Added new help section:
$ datasette --help-config
Config options:
default_page_size Default page size for the table view
(default=100)
max_returned_rows Maximum rows that can be returned from a table
or custom query (default=1000)
sql_time_limit_ms Time limit for a SQL query in milliseconds
(default=1000)
default_facet_size Number of values to return for requested facets
(default=30)
facet_time_limit_ms Time limit for calculating a requested facet
(default=200)
facet_suggest_time_limit_ms Time limit for calculating a suggested facet
(default=50)
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
Replaced the --max_returned_rows and --sql_time_limit_ms options to
"datasette serve" with a new --limit option, which supports a larger
list of limits.
Example usage:
datasette serve --limit max_returned_rows:1000 \
--limit sql_time_limit_ms:2500 \
--limit default_facet_size:50 \
--limit facet_time_limit_ms:1000 \
--limit facet_suggest_time_limit_ms:500
New docs: https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/limits.htmlCloses#270Closes#264
Russ Garrett