pyexcel-webio 0.1.3

A generic request and response interface for pyexcel web extensions.

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Known constraints

Fonts, colors and charts are not supported.

Introduction

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 pyexcel-webio via pip:

$ pip install pyexcel-webio

or clone it and install it:

$ git clone https://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

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

Once you have finished your changes, please provide test case(s), relevant documentation and update CHANGELOG.rst.

Note

As to 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.

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

How to update test environment and update documentation

Additional steps are required:

1. pip install moban

2. git clone https://github.com/moremoban/setupmobans.git # generic setup

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

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

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.

Acceptance criteria

1. Has Test cases written

2. Has all code lines tested

3. Passes all Travis CI builds

4. Has fair amount of documentation if your change is complex

5. Please update CHANGELOG.rst

6. Please add yourself to CONTRIBUTORS.rst

7. Agree on NEW BSD License for your contribution

License

New BSD License

Change log

0.1.3 - 20.10.2017

added

1. #103, include LICENSE file in MANIFEST.in, meaning LICENSE file will appear in the released tar ball.

updated

1. Take pyexcel 0.5.5 as dependency

0.1.2 - 12.07.2017

Added

1. To bring isave_as and isave_book_as to web clients

Updated

1. replaced monkey-patching initialization step. For all extension developer, please call init_webio(your_response_function)

0.1.1 - 07.07.2017

Updated

1. #5: explicitly seek at 0 for incoming file

0.1.0 - 06.07.2017

Added

1. To bring iget_array, iget_records to web clients

2. To facilitate the use of pyexcel-handsontable, pyexcel-pygal, pyexcel-matplotlib

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