[ckan-dev] JSON Generator for CKAN

Sat Oct 12 18:56:30 UTC 2013

Okay, apparently I can accesses all required functions by simpling using
the CKAN modules. To answer my own question, as long as I do not want to
actually interact with CKAN in a bidirectional way, I won't need to
write a dedicated CKAN extension.

On 12.10.2013 17:06, Konrad Reiche wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> I want to write a JSON generator for CKAN which takes the schema.py and
> generates a JSON Schema from it. I need an advice:
> 
> Should I write this as a plugin, a CKAN extension to access the
> necessary classes and types of CKAN or should I write a standalone
> Python script which simply imports the necessary CKAN libraries?
> 
> I am not sure what makes more sense, after all it will become a
> standalone command-line tool and would not really interact with CKAN.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Best,
> Konrad
> 