innovativeproject-django-sourcerer

Links

• Pypi https://pypi.org/project/django-sourcerer/
• Source code https://github.com/nokia-wroclaw/innovativeproject-django-sourcerer

Install

pip install django-sourcerer

Usage

Add django_sourcerer and rest_framework texts to settings.py under INSTALLED_APPS list.

INSTALLED_APPS=[
    ... 
    'django_sourcerer',
    'rest_framework'
]

Add also to settings.py information that where the config file is located.

SOURCERER_CONFIG_FILES = [
    "project_path/example.yaml"
]

Then run following commands:

./manage.py makemigrations django_sourcerer

./manage.py migrate

For update objects from source type following command:

./manage.py update_objects

For view in API Framework add following lines of code to your urls.py :

from django.urls import path, include
from django_sourcerer.urls import django_sourcerer_urls

urlpatterns = [
    path('', include(django_sourcerer_urls().urls))
]

Then just start the API ./manage.py runserver .

Library works with csv and json datas now. It will be updated for xls formats.

Example .yaml File

name: <name of data source>
source: <endpoint of data source>
format: csv
columns:
  - external_name: <column name>
    type: <column type e.g : int>
  - external_name: <column name>
    type: <column type e.g : str>

Requires

• Python 3