wh-lookml-gen 0.2.1

generates lookml from a warehouse

wh_lookml_gen

generates lookml from a warehouse

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://wh-lookml-gen.readthedocs.io.

Features

### bq_lookml_generator v.0.1.1

This automatic generator is buit over Josh Temples looker parser [https://github.com/joshtemple/lkml]. Building out lkml, it allows you to generate lookml from BigQuery metadata.

## getting started

• make sure you are working in a venv.

• pip install lookml_gen

• config params

  • run lookml_gen_init

    • head to .lookml_gen and input your wh credentials

      • warehouse configs

        • either input big_query or red_shift (current support warehouses) under warehouse_name

        • input schema name

        • input project name

      • security

        • big_query

          • input your keyfile path

        • red_shift

          • input you credentials

• input your warehouse schema target in here lookml/bq_lookml_gen/warehouse_target.py

• type lookml_gen into terminal and watch the base explore generate…

## troubleshooting

• run pip install -r requirements.txt if you are running into dependency issues

• you can run bq_lookml_gen.py from terminal if needed

## to update

twine upload –skip-existing dist/*

## to develop

• add new features to setup tools using: python setup.py develop

rebuild the wheel

python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

pip install -e /Users/lewisbaker/Documents/GitHub/kaplan_data_warehouse/lookml/lookml_gen/lookml_gen.py

pip freeze > requirements.txt

cat requirements.txt

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

History

0.1.7 (2021-05-28)

• First release on PyPI.