[okfn-help] CKAN config.ini change

Tue Jul 8 11:12:19 BST 2008

On 07/07/08 17:36, John Bywater wrote:
> Hi Rufus,
> 
> Lots of changes.... It's probably worth trying to add this line to the 
> ckan.net configuration file (suggest just below all the other 
> authkit.openid lines):
> 
> authkit.openid.template.obj = 
> ckan.controllers.openid_template:make_template

Yes I was going to ask you about this when I saw your commits :)

> You could probably also add this to your development.ini:
> 
> authkit.form.template.obj = ckan.controllers.account:login_form
> 
> 
> I've added both to the ckan.egg-info/paste_deploy_config.ini_tmpl file. 
> This should make the login forms look-n-feel like normal CKAN pages. 
> There are a few more changes to CKAN that I made today, which should 
> mean that register/update/show all support CKAN package name, title 
> (from description), url, download_url, tags (from keywords), and notes 
> (from long_description). BTW these mappings aren't documented in datapkg 
> yet, but they do need to be documented clearly. Perhaps the attributes 
> names of CKAN packages and datapkg packages should be converged?

Yes they definitely should be -- or rather the names present in PKG-INFO 
[1] and in CKAN.

[1]:<http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0314/>

> I'm fairly happy with the functionality on both sides now, but there's a 
> quite a bit of refactoring etc needed. A number of things are not under 
> test. There is a "strange error" with datapkg when the path given to the 
> ckanregister command is duff. There is a double entry in the recent 
> changes when a package is created via the API (because the update 
> routine is called after the create routine, part of the attempt to get 
> tags registered). And so on.

OK.

> But why not update CKAN.net, also update your local datapkg and 
> ckanclient codes, and then try:
> 
> $ datapkg [help] create ...
> $ datapkg [help] ckanregister ...
> $ datapkg [help] ckanshow ...
> $ datapkg [help] ckanupdate ...
> $ datapkg [help] ckanshow ...
> 
> Let me know what you think an uninitiated user would think about it? 
> Then perhaps we could ask Jonathan to try it?
> 
> I think it's pretty exciting. I'm looking forward to having the 
> "ckaninstall" command working. :-)

Looks great. I'm busy trying to get the main internals on the 'local' 
side finished. I writing a CLI walkthrough test in 
datapkg/tests/test_cli.py.

~rufus