[ckan-dev] Configuring the separator character in recline-view

Tue Oct 4 12:27:35 UTC 2016

Hi Knud,
The "solution" is to use the datapusher/datastore; that can cope with
semicolon as the separator. A related "solution" which I am about to
implement is to hide the preview when the data is not in the datastore.
This has the effect of preventing the messy display a) When the data is
finished loading into the datastore b) When an error occurred with loading
to the datastore.

My last actual idea for a workaround (in the issue you mention) was to
upgrade messytables (the same package used by datapusher) in the dataproxy
instance which CKAN uses to proxy CSV data.

Best,
Matt

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On 4 October 2016 at 10:01, Knud Möller <knud at datalysator.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we want to use the recline-view plugin for external CSVs (via the resource
> proxy plugin). Datastore is not an option. Does anyone have experience in
> configuring the separator character in this scenario? A lot of the external
> CSVs we want to visualise/preview use a semicolon as the separator, while
> the recline-view plugin seems to have ‘,’ hard-coded as the separator.
>
> I have seen this discussed on github (https://github.com/ckan/ckan/
> issues/1296), but the issue was closed with no solution. If anyone has
> found a way around this problem, we’d love to hear from you! Alternatively,
> we might also work on adding a configuration option ourselves - in that
> case, where should this happen? recline-view, resource-proxy or someplace
> else?
>
> Cheers,
> Knud
>
>
> --
> Dr. Knud Hinnerk Möller
> Datalysator - Web Data Solutions and Training
> knud at datalysator.com
> +49 151 46 44 83 25
>
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On 4 October 2016 at 10:01, Knud Möller <knud at datalysator.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we want to use the recline-view plugin for external CSVs (via the resource
> proxy plugin). Datastore is not an option. Does anyone have experience in
> configuring the separator character in this scenario? A lot of the external
> CSVs we want to visualise/preview use a semicolon as the separator, while
> the recline-view plugin seems to have ‘,’ hard-coded as the separator.
>
> I have seen this discussed on github (https://github.com/ckan/ckan/
> issues/1296), but the issue was closed with no solution. If anyone has
> found a way around this problem, we’d love to hear from you! Alternatively,
> we might also work on adding a configuration option ourselves - in that
> case, where should this happen? recline-view, resource-proxy or someplace
> else?
>
> Cheers,
> Knud
>
>
> --
> Dr. Knud Hinnerk Möller
> Datalysator - Web Data Solutions and Training
> knud at datalysator.com
> +49 151 46 44 83 25
>
>
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