[ckan-dev] Removal of dataproxy backend from data explorer

Fri Jan 4 13:42:47 UTC 2013

If you need a pointer. Nigel and me are working on this at https://github.com/okfn/ckan-importer-service.

On 4 Jan 2013, at 13:58, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> I think we should think hard before doing this. Setting up the
> DataStore (and the DataStorer) is some degree of extra work. Removing
> support for DataProxy then removes some very useful functionality that
> often "just works" out of the box.
> 
> Type information could be added *very* easily to DataProxy once
> messytables supports streaming [1] and that works gets integrated with
> data converters: https://github.com/okfn/data-converters
> 
> rufus
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/okfn/messytables/issues/24
> 
> On 3 January 2013 09:22, John Glover <john.glover at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> There was a suggestion that we disable the dataproxy backend in the data
>> explorer in CKAN 2.0, as the lack of type information makes visualisation
>> difficult. In order to preview tabular data it would therefore first have to
>> be added to the new CKAN datastore. Are there any objections to this?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> John
>> 
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