[ckan-dev] Started work on the 'webstore' (a datastore with web API)

Mon Jul 4 18:54:43 UTC 2011

On 4 July 2011 19:50, James Casbon <casbon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rufus,
>
> see inline...
>
> On 4 July 2011 19:39, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Following up earlier discussion [1] of CREP 0004 Data API and Data
>> Processing System:
>>
>> <http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1190>
>
> Not CREP! ;)

i agreed but was outvoted ;-)

> You should probably add sleepy mongoose to your prior art list:
> https://github.com/kchodorow/sleepy.mongoose/wiki/

That's prior art for the webstore for but not the whole thing I think
... (and i've used it a little bit).

> I want to ask about the specific use case you have there and how it
> relates to the datastore.
> You talk about converting a set of prices using interest rates: is
> that happening inside the datastore or in the client javscript in your
> vision?

In client javascript initially. Idea then being that script could be
saved and executed offline (in bulk) using e.g. nodejs. So we use
client js for 'editor' and then ship to backend engine for large scale
processing.

Rufus