datasette-events-db

Log Datasette events to a database table

Installation

Install this plugin in the same environment as Datasette.

datasette install datasette-events-db

This plugin depends on Datasette 1.0a8 or higher.

Usage

Once installed, all Datasette events will be logged to a table called datasette_events. This table will be created in the private internal database, but can be moved to another database using the following plugin configuration option:

plugins:
  datasette-events-db:
    database: my_database

The table will be created when Datasette starts up, if it does not already exist.

Table schema

create table if not exists datasette_events (
    id integer primary key,
    event text,
    created text,
    actor_id text,
    database_name text,
    table_name text,
    properties text -- JSON other properties
)

• event is the text name of the event, for example create-table
• created is an ISO formatted UTC timestamp
• actor_id will be populated with the ID of the responsible actor, or null if not available
• database_name will be the database property recorded by the event, if present
• table_name will be the table property recorded by the event, if present
• properties will be a JSON object containing any other properties recorded by the event

Development

To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd datasette-events-db
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

pytest