[ckan-dev] A couple of new extensions

Fri Aug 14 15:43:27 UTC 2015

Yea, sure - post away!

Denis

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Steven De Costa <
steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au> wrote:

> Thanks Denis! I really appreciate this notification and outline of the
> extensions. Both look very helpful.
>
> Are you happy for this to be posted up on ckan.org?
>
> Anyone else happy to write a short outline of extensions they would like
> to share? This could even be on extensions you rely on but may not have
> developed. I'm sure those contributing would love to see how their work is
> adding value to people using CKAN.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
>
> On Friday, August 14, 2015, Denis Zgonjanin <deniszgonjanin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> A couple of CKAN extensions which I've been working on are good enough to
>> share now, so I thought I'd let people know about them in case anybody
>> finds them useful:
>>
>> 1. Webhooks: https://github.com/datacats/ckanext-webhooks
>> A problem I've had personally is having my open data apps know when a
>> dataset they've been using has been updated. You can of course poll CKAN
>> periodically, but then you need cron jobs or a queue, and when you're using
>> a cheap PaaS like heroku for your apps, integrating queues and cron is just
>> an extra hassle.
>>
>> This extension lets people register a URL with CKAN, which CKAN will call
>> when a certain event happens - for example, a dataset update. The extension
>> uses the built-in CKAN celery queue, so as to be non-blocking.
>>
>> If you do end up using it, there are still a bunch of nice features to be
>> built, including a simple web interface through which users can register
>> webhooks (right now they can only be created through the action API)
>>
>> 2. Geopusher: https://github.com/datacats/ckanext-geopusher
>> So you know how you have a lot of Shapefiles and KML files in your CKANs
>> (because government), but your users prefer GeoJSON? This extension will
>> automatically convert shapefiles and KML into GeoJSON, and create a new
>> GeoJSON resource within that dataset. There are some cases where this won't
>> work depending on complexity of SHP or KML file, but it works well in
>> general.
>>
>> This extension also uses the built-in celery queue to do its work, so for
>> both of these extensions you will need to start the celery daemon in order
>> to use them:
>>
>> `paster --plugin=ckan celeryd -c development.ini`
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - Denis
>>
>>
>>
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