[wdmmg-dev] [ckan-dev] Started work on the 'webstore' (a datastore with web API)

Thu Jul 7 18:05:28 UTC 2011

On 7 July 2011 19:03, James Casbon <casbon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 July 2011 18:26, Friedrich Lindenberg
> <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Would appreciate any feedback!
>
> Looks very promising.  I checked the create table code and the type
> guessing is a little basic (always text) and done on a row basis.
> Since you are using JSON and will therefore load the entire set of
> posted data before you process it, you might want to guess the type
> based on all the data posted.

Patches welcome ;-)

> I would also like to be able to nest tables (maybe I've spent too long
> with mongo ;) ), so that I could encapsulate projects in a single URL
> scheme.  FWIW the difficulty in doing this with flask decorators is
> what made me use something other than flask when I made something
> similar.

Interesting. We were thinking of allowing json entries for columns but
not sure that solves for querying.

Rufus

> Obviously security is going to be a concern when you are executing sql
> input.  Have you given any thought to this?  Esp when you would want
> to be embedding this in other javascript apps.
>
> But all in all, looking impressive.
>
> James
>

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