pyexcel-webio 0.0.11

A generic request and response interface for pyexcel web extensions.

Known constraints

Fonts, colors and charts are not supported.

pyexcel-webio is a tiny interface library to unify the web extensions that uses pyexcel . You may use it to write a web extension for your faviourite Python web framework.

Installation

You can install it via pip:

$ pip install pyexcel-webio

or clone it and install it:

$ git clone http://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel-webio.git
$ cd pyexcel-webio
$ python setup.py install

Known extensions

framework	plugin/middleware/extension
Flask	Flask-Excel
Django	django-excel
Pyramid	pyramid-excel

Usage

This small section outlines the steps to adapt pyexcel-webio for your favourite web framework. For illustration purpose, I took Flask micro-framework as an example.

1. Inherit ExcelInput class and implement load_single_sheet and load_book methods depending on the parameters you will have. For example, Flask.Request put the incoming file in Flask.Request.files and the key is the field name in the html form:

   from flask import Flask, Request
   import pyexcel as pe
   from pyexcel.ext import webio
   
   class ExcelRequest(webio.ExcelInput, Request):
       def _get_file_tuple(self, field_name):
           filehandle = self.files[field_name]
           filename = filehandle.filename
           extension = filename.split(".")[1]
           return extension, filehandle
   
       def load_single_sheet(self, field_name=None, sheet_name=None,
                             **keywords):
           file_type, file_handle = self._get_file_tuple(field_name)
           return pe.get_sheet(file_type=file_type,
                               content=file_handle.read(),
                               sheet_name=sheet_name,
                               **keywords)
   
       def load_book(self, field_name=None, **keywords):
           file_type, file_handle = self._get_file_tuple(field_name)
           return pe.get_book(file_type=file_type,
                              content=file_handle.read(),
                              **keywords)

2. Plugin in a response method that has the following signature:

   def your_func(content, content_type=None, status=200):
       ....

   or a response class has the same signature:

   class YourClass:
       def __init__(self, content, content_type=None, status=200):
       ....

   For example, with Flask, it is just a few lines:

   from flask import Response
   
   
   webio.ExcelResponse = Response

3. Then make the proxy for make_response series by simply copying the following lines to your extension:

   from pyexcel.ext.webio import (
       make_response,
       make_response_from_array,
       make_response_from_dict,
       make_response_from_records,
       make_response_from_book_dict
   )

Development guide

Development steps for code changes

1. git clone https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel-webio.git

2. cd pyexcel-webio

Upgrade your setup tools and pip. They are needed for development and testing only:

1. pip install –upgrade setuptools “pip==7.1”

Then install relevant development requirements:

1. pip install -r rnd_requirements.txt # if such a file exists

2. pip install -r requirements.txt

3. pip install -r tests/requirements.txt

In order to update test environment, and documentation, additional steps are required:

1. pip install moban

2. git clone https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel-commons.git commons

3. make your changes in .moban.d directory, then issue command moban

What is rnd_requirements.txt

Usually, it is created when a dependent library is not released. Once the dependecy is installed(will be released), the future version of the dependency in the requirements.txt will be valid.

What is pyexcel-commons

Many information that are shared across pyexcel projects, such as: this developer guide, license info, etc. are stored in pyexcel-commons project.

What is .moban.d

.moban.d stores the specific meta data for the library.

How to test your contribution

Although nose and doctest are both used in code testing, it is adviable that unit tests are put in tests. doctest is incorporated only to make sure the code examples in documentation remain valid across different development releases.

On Linux/Unix systems, please launch your tests like this:

$ make

On Windows systems, please issue this command:

> test.bat

License

New BSD License

Change log

0.0.11 - 04.03.2017

Updated

1. #4: extra keywords were not passed on to pyexcel

0.0.10 - 22.12.2016

Updated

1. #3: raise exception if uploaded file has no content read.

0.0.9 - 22.12.2016

Updated

1. Flask-Excel issue 19: sheet_name parameter to control sheet name

2. use pyexcel v0.4.0

0.0.8 - 28.10.2016

Updated

1. use pyexcel v0.3.0

0.0.7 - 01.06.2016

Updated

1. use pyexcel v0.2.2