ckanext-datapackage-creator 0.0.47

Data Package Creator.

CKNEXT Data Package Creator

CKAN extension to use the fritioncless library

Table of Contents

• Publish or Update Package to Pypi
• Installation
• Configuration

Publish or Update Package to Pypi

• Check the last version published on Pypi.
• Update CHANGELOG.md file with a short review of what had been done.
• Update setup.py file with the new version number.
• Commit all the above changes with the new version number (one above that publish on Pypi). Example: git commit -am 'v0.1.1'.
• Push the created commit to the online repository: Example: git push origin master.
• Create a new tag with the new version number (same as used to commit last changes). Example: git tag v0.1.1 HEAD.
• Push the new created tag to the online repository: Example: git push origin v0.1.1.
• Publish on Pypi with make update-package.

Instalation

pip install ckanext-datapackage-creator

Configuration

Once installed, add the datapackage_creator plugin to the ckan.plugins configuration option in your INI file.

ckan.plugins = ... datapackage_creator

Datapackage Creator Configuration

Opening the file with vi editor

sudo vi /etc/ckan/default/datapackage_creator.json

The plugin allows you to configure which fields of the resource and package are mandatory and/or 'readonly', for this you just need to add a configuration in your INI file.

datapackage_creator = /path/to/datapackage_creator.json

We suggest that the file path would be /etc/ckan/default/datapackage_creator.json or in the same folder as ckan.ini file.

Configuration example file:

{
    "package": {
        "required": [],
        "readonly": []
    },
    "resource": {
        "required": [],
        "readonly": []
    },
    "token": ""
}

Mandatory possible package fields:

• description
• source
• version
• license
• frequency
• tags
• author
• author_email

Possible read-only package fields:

Nothing

Mandatory possible resource fields:

• title
• description
• format
• type
• encoding
• field.name (Column field)
• field.title (Column field)
• field.description (Column field)
• field.format (Column field)

Possible read-only package fields:

• format
• type
• encoding

Token

It is necessary to configure an administrator token so that the plugin can query private data