[ckan-dev] Feature Request: Upserts in ckanclient

Wed Sep 21 20:10:48 UTC 2011

Hi all,

I'm working on one of the community instances and essentially I'm
writing some scraper scripts to pipe packages into CKAN.
Micro-harvesters, in a sense. What I'd really like would be upsert
functions like this:

def client():
    return CkanClient(base_location=CKAN_URL + '/api', api_key=CKAN_KEY)

def upsert_group(data):
    name = data['name']
    c = client()
    try:
        grp = c.group_entity_get(name)
        grp = c.group_entity_put(data)
    except CkanApiNotFoundError:
        #print "Create %s" % name
        grp = c.group_register_post(data)
    return grp

def upsert_package(data):
    name = data['name']
    c = client()
    try:
        pkg = c.package_entity_get(name)
        pkg = c.package_entity_put(data)
    except CkanApiNotFoundError:
        #print "Create %s" % name
        pkg = c.package_register_post(data)
    return pkg

def add_package_to_group(group_name, pkg_name):
    c = client()
    grp = c.group_entity_get(group_name)
    grp['packages'].append(pkg_name)
    return c.group_entity_put(grp)

- Friedrich

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