[ckan-dev] Improvements to DataProxy and upgrade of DataProxy service

[Rufus Pollock]

Hi All,

There have been some major improvements to Data Proxy.

In particular, I've upgraded it to use the new dataconverters library
[1] (and messytables) [2].

Feature wise this means:

* Type information is now available in a metadata field in results and
this info is used to case values wherever possible
* xlsx is now supported - https://github.com/okfn/dataproxy/issues/4
* Code is much cleaner

[1]: https://github.com/okfn/dataconverters
[2]: https://github.com/okfn/dataproxy/issues/10

I have also upgraded the data proxy service to use this new codebase
(and switched to python27 runtime which required a migration in GAE -
details in [3])

If you encounter any issues with the new Data Proxy library or service
please report them in the issue tracker:

<https://github.com/okfn/dataproxy/issues>

Regards,

Rufus

[3]: https://github.com/okfn/dataproxy/commit/8d7bde91ff03a264e4e90945836dc906a01d95e1