[ckan-dev] Shared access to the database

[Ian Ward]

It is "ckanapi" that supports calling actions directly from an extension,
not "ckanclient".

On Sep 17, 2013 1:22 PM, "Richard Gomes" <rgomes.info at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Sean,
>
> Thanks a lot for directions and advices.
>
> I will review CkanClient. I'm already using it, or code derived from it,
to be more precise, but I'm performing calls over the network.
> I will try to call directly, as you had pointed out.
>
> Cheers :)
>
>
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> On 17/09/13 16:24, Sean Hammond wrote:
>>>
>>> Also, performing a service call over the network costs obviously
>>> more than calling SQLAlchemy functions directly.
>>> Performance would not be a problem initially, but it would impact
>>> scalability later. And I wouldn't like to redesign the application
>>> later.
>>
>> Just to say that this CKAN client can call CKAN action functions
>> directly when your Python code is running on the same server as CKAN is,
>> instead of making HTTP requests:
>>
>> https://github.com/open-data/ckanapi
>>
>> I'm not sure how well tested this is, it's possible that some CKAN
>> action functions may fail if they're called without an HTTP request, but
>> worth a try.
>>
>> It's really much better to call CKAN's action functions, having your
>> code access CKAN's model directly is likely to create problems.
>>
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