[ckan-discuss] lowercase file formats

Fri Mar 16 18:15:34 GMT 2012

I did ask about this one, the ticket was very vague about what the goal of
the exercise was, and I thought my solution was a bit hacky. I was right :-)

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:09 PM, David Read
<david.read at hackneyworkshop.com>wrote:

> Great, many thanks, I've pushed it here: [release-v1.6.1 6696b9a]
>
> I'll hope to get round to my improved autocomplete idea soon and will
> see what you think.
>
> Dave
>
> On 16 March 2012 16:48, David Raznick <kindly at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Yes that is fine, Tom added it and I approved without thinking through
> > all the consequences.
> >
> > David
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:23 PM, David Read
> > <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com> wrote:
> >> Rufus has just suggested to me that we simply remove (revert) the
> >> lowercase functionality for now. David Raznick, does that suit?
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >> On 16 March 2012 14:46, David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com>
> wrote:
> >>> On 16 March 2012 13:17, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> >>>> On 16 March 2012 11:36, David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>> I notice that file formats are now automatically changed to lower
> >>>>> case, whatever you type in. I can see this is useful to stop the
> >>>>> database ending up with both 'CSV' and 'csv', but I think capitals
> are
> >>>>> often important. e.g. our database has RDFa, iCal, netCDF, Flash
> >>>>> Player and having this hard-coded in the logic layer is a rather
> >>>>> inflexible. And what if on our site we'd prefer CSV to csv? Also, it
> >>>>> doesn't seem right to do this conversion without telling you *after*
> >>>>> you submit the form.
> >>>>
> >>>> Got you. I guess the issue is you end up with a lot CSV vs csv in the
> >>>> DB. What about netCDF versus netcdf or Flash versus flash. At least
> >>>> for faceting it is clear we need to standardize. So options are:
> >>>>
> >>>> * Don't change the format you are given (but then standardize into the
> >>>> faceting in SOLR?)
> >>>> * Change stuff to lower case (not liked but standardized)
> >>>>
> >>>>> How about just having format autocomplete with some well-known
> >>>>> formats, or convert only well-known formats (e.g. csv, xls) to
> >>>>> lower/uppercase, rather than the whole lot?
> >>>>
> >>>> Autocomplete just runs off whole list of existing formats at the
> >>>> moment. Autocompleting based on specific formats would add more
> >>>> complexity (so if you wanted that change we might want to remove full
> >>>> autocomplete).
> >>>
> >>> Yes, exactly. Mostly we care about the top 10 formats. In the meantime
> >>> to us getting round to this different auto-complete option, do you
> >>> mind if I make the code that forces it to lower case format
> >>> configurable to off?
> >>>
> >>> Dave
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Sounds like this is all ticketable and real questoin is then cost /
> >>>> benefit of this versus other features :-)
> >>>>
> >>>> rufus
> >>>>
> >>>>> Dave
> >>>>>
> >>>>> commit da3edd4371e381c2a631578938e878a2cf612bd9
> >>>>> Author: Tom Rees <zephod at gmail.com>
> >>>>> Date:   Tue Feb 28 18:26:31 2012 +0000
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    [#1506]: Force format field to be lowercase in resources.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> diff --git a/ckan/lib/dictization/model_dictize.py
> b/ckan/lib/dictization/model_
> >>>>> index 309350e..1e1475e 100644
> >>>>> --- a/ckan/lib/dictization/model_dictize.py
> >>>>> +++ b/ckan/lib/dictization/model_dictize.py
> >>>>> @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ def extras_list_dictize(extras_list, context):
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  def resource_dictize(res, context):
> >>>>>     resource = table_dictize(res, context)
> >>>>> +    resource['format'] = resource.get('format','').lower()
> >>>>>     extras = resource.pop("extras", None)
> >>>>>     if extras:
> >>>>>         resource.update(extras)
> >>>>>
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