[ckan-dev] Feature Request: Upserts in ckanclient

Fri Sep 23 13:09:00 UTC 2011

Hrm, I knew this would come back ;-)

https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanclient/pull-request/1/upsert-functions

- Friedrich

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 21 September 2011 21:10, Friedrich Lindenberg
> <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
>> 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)
>
> sounds like a good patch :-) Do you want to fork, apply and then we
> merge to ckanclient?
>
> Rufus
>
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