Investigate and list (on the wiki at wiki:UiReviewNotes) CKAN's UI issues, in particular:

• Form usability
  • best example: ​http://ckan.net/package/new
  • "Extras" fields
  • Adding to groups (from group page or from package page?)

• Overview pages: reduction in visual noise and unnecessary elements.
  • best example: package overview page
  • consider openness/downloadability icons
  • display common metadata fields in a more structured fashion?

Est cost: 2 hrs.

Investigate exception:

URL: http://ckan.net/revision/diff/dbtune-audioscrobbler?diff=66a47b9e-232a-4838-8674-66fa1a5c76e1&oldid=a99c98be-767a-4e49-9025-2472b2d18b9c
Module weberror.errormiddleware:162 in __call__
<<              __traceback_supplement__ = Supplement, self, environ
                   sr_checker = ResponseStartChecker(start_response)
                   app_iter = self.application(environ, sr_checker)
                   return self.make_catching_iter(app_iter, environ, sr_checker)
               except:
>>  app_iter = self.application(environ, sr_checker)
Module beaker.middleware:73 in __call__
<<                                                     self.cache_manager)
               environ[self.environ_key] = self.cache_manager
               return self.app(environ, start_response)
>>  return self.app(environ, start_response)
Module beaker.middleware:152 in __call__
<<                          headers.append(('Set-cookie', cookie))
                   return start_response(status, headers, exc_info)
               return self.wrap_app(environ, session_start_response)
           
           def _get_session(self):
>>  return self.wrap_app(environ, session_start_response)
Module routes.middleware:130 in __call__
<<                  environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] = environ['SCRIPT_NAME'][:-1]
               
               response = self.app(environ, start_response)
               
               # Wrapped in try as in rare cases the attribute will be gone already
>>  response = self.app(environ, start_response)
Module pylons.wsgiapp:125 in __call__
<<          
               controller = self.resolve(environ, start_response)
               response = self.dispatch(controller, environ, start_response)
               
               if 'paste.testing_variables' in environ and hasattr(response,
>>  response = self.dispatch(controller, environ, start_response)
Module pylons.wsgiapp:324 in dispatch
<<          if log_debug:
                   log.debug("Calling controller class with WSGI interface")
               return controller(environ, start_response)
           
           def load_test_env(self, environ):
>>  return controller(environ, start_response)
Module ckan.lib.base:73 in __call__
<<          # available in environ['pylons.routes_dict']    
               try:
                   return WSGIController.__call__(self, environ, start_response)
               finally:
                   model.Session.remove()
>>  return WSGIController.__call__(self, environ, start_response)
Module pylons.controllers.core:221 in __call__
<<                  return response(environ, self.start_response)
               
               response = self._dispatch_call()
               if not start_response_called:
                   self.start_response = start_response
>>  response = self._dispatch_call()
Module pylons.controllers.core:172 in _dispatch_call
<<              req.environ['pylons.action_method'] = func
                   
                   response = self._inspect_call(func)
               else:
                   if log_debug:
>>  response = self._inspect_call(func)
Module pylons.controllers.core:107 in _inspect_call
<<                        func.__name__, args)
               try:
                   result = self._perform_call(func, args)
               except HTTPException, httpe:
                   if log_debug:
>>  result = self._perform_call(func, args)
Module pylons.controllers.core:60 in _perform_call
<<          """Hide the traceback for everything above this method"""
               __traceback_hide__ = 'before_and_this'
               return func(**args)
           
           def _inspect_call(self, func):
>>  return func(**args)
Module ckan.controllers.revision:119 in diff
<<          c.revision_to = model.Session.query(model.Revision).get(
                   request.params.getone('diff'))
               diff = pkg.diff(c.revision_to, c.revision_from)
               c.diff = diff.items()
               c.diff.sort()
>>  diff = pkg.diff(c.revision_to, c.revision_from)
Module ckan.model.package:340 in diff
<<                              display_id = to_obj_rev.tag.name
                               elif obj_class.__name__ == 'PackageExtra':
                                   display_id = to_obj_rev.key
                               else:
                                   display_id = related_obj_id[:4]
>>  display_id = to_obj_rev.key
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'key'
CGI Variables
AUTH_TYPE	'cookie'
DOCUMENT_ROOT	'/htdocs'
GATEWAY_INTERFACE	'CGI/1.1'
HTTP_ACCEPT	'application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5'
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET	'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3'
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING	'gzip'
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE	'en-US,en;q=0.8'
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL	'max-age=0'
HTTP_COOKIE	'__utmz=27730403.1281000628.1.6.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=ckan; auth_tkt="e919c7bb40f890a0184ed7be95465e1a4c6d130bhttp://pudo.org/!"; auth_tkt="e919c7bb40f890a0184ed7be95465e1a4c6d130bhttp://pudo.org/!"; __utma=27730403.1381387877.1281962773.1282248244.1282250173.11; __utmc=27730403; __utmb=27730403.6.10.1282250173'
HTTP_HOST	'ckan.net'
HTTP_REFERER	'http://ckan.net/package/history/dbtune-audioscrobbler'
HTTP_USER_AGENT	'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_4; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.490.1 Safari/534.6'
PATH	'/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin'
PATH_INFO	'/revision/diff/dbtune-audioscrobbler'
PATH_TRANSLATED	'/home/okfn/var/srvc/ckan.net/pyenv/bin/ckan.net.py/revision/diff/dbtune-audioscrobbler'
QUERY_STRING	'diff=66a47b9e-232a-4838-8674-66fa1a5c76e1&oldid=a99c98be-767a-4e49-9025-2472b2d18b9c'
REMOTE_ADDR	'92.226.62.168'
REMOTE_PORT	'55102'
REMOTE_USER	'http://pudo.org/'
REMOTE_USER_TOKENS	['']
REQUEST_METHOD	'GET'
REQUEST_URI	'/revision/diff/dbtune-audioscrobbler?diff=66a47b9e-232a-4838-8674-66fa1a5c76e1&oldid=a99c98be-767a-4e49-9025-2472b2d18b9c'
SCRIPT_FILENAME	'/home/okfn/var/srvc/ckan.net/pyenv/bin/ckan.net.py'
SCRIPT_URI	'http://ckan.net/revision/diff/dbtune-audioscrobbler'
SCRIPT_URL	'/revision/diff/dbtune-audioscrobbler'
SERVER_ADDR	'10.226.226.118'
SERVER_ADMIN	'[no address given]'
SERVER_NAME	'ckan.net'
SERVER_PORT	'80'
SERVER_PROTOCOL	'HTTP/1.1'
SERVER_SIGNATURE	'<address>Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) mod_wsgi/2.5 Python/2.5.2 Server at ckan.net Port 80</address>\n'
SERVER_SOFTWARE	'Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) mod_wsgi/2.5 Python/2.5.2'
WSGI Variables
application	<beaker.middleware.CacheMiddleware object at 0xbb528cc>
beaker.cache	<beaker.cache.CacheManager object at 0xbb528ec>
beaker.get_session	<bound method SessionMiddleware._get_session of <beaker.middleware.SessionMiddleware object at 0xbb5286c>>
beaker.session	{'_accessed_time': 1282252047.603267, '_creation_time': 1282252047.603267}
mod_wsgi.application_group	'ckan.net|'
mod_wsgi.callable_object	'application'
mod_wsgi.listener_host	''
mod_wsgi.listener_port	'80'
mod_wsgi.process_group	''
mod_wsgi.reload_mechanism	'0'
mod_wsgi.script_reloading	'1'
mod_wsgi.version	(2, 5)
paste.cookies	(<SimpleCookie: __utma='27730403.1381387877.1281962773.1282248244.1282250173.11' __utmb='27730403.6.10.1282250173' __utmc='27730403' __utmz='27730403.1281000628.1.6.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=ckan' auth_tkt='e919c7bb40f890a0184ed7be95465e1a4c6d130bhttp://pudo.org/!'>, '__utmz=27730403.1281000628.1.6.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=ckan; auth_tkt="e919c7bb40f890a0184ed7be95465e1a4c6d130bhttp://pudo.org/!"; auth_tkt="e919c7bb40f890a0184ed7be95465e1a4c6d130bhttp://pudo.org/!"; __utma=27730403.1381387877.1281962773.1282248244.1282250173.11; __utmc=27730403; __utmb=27730403.6.10.1282250173')
paste.parsed_querystring	([('diff', '66a47b9e-232a-4838-8674-66fa1a5c76e1'), ('oldid', 'a99c98be-767a-4e49-9025-2472b2d18b9c')], 'diff=66a47b9e-232a-4838-8674-66fa1a5c76e1&oldid=a99c98be-767a-4e49-9025-2472b2d18b9c')
paste.registry	<paste.registry.Registry object at 0xf702aec>
paste.throw_errors	True
pylons.action_method	<bound method RevisionController.diff of <ckan.controllers.revision.RevisionController object at 0xf6eaf0c>>
pylons.controller	<ckan.controllers.revision.RevisionController object at 0xf6eaf0c>
pylons.environ_config	{'session': 'beaker.session', 'cache': 'beaker.cache'}
pylons.pylons	<pylons.util.PylonsContext object at 0xf6eaa8c>
pylons.routes_dict	{'action': u'diff', 'controller': u'revision', 'id': u'dbtune-audioscrobbler'}
repoze.who.identity	<repoze.who identity (hidden, dict-like) at 280815340>
repoze.who.logger	<logging.Logger instance at 0xbcdfccc>
repoze.who.plugins	{'openid': <OpenIdIdentificationPlugin 196612236>, 'auth_tkt': <AuthTktCookiePlugin 198048140>}
routes.route	<routes.route.Route object at 0xbbc44cc>
routes.url	<routes.util.URLGenerator object at 0xf5e55ec>
webob._parsed_query_vars	(GET([('diff', '66a47b9e-232a-4838-8674-66fa1a5c76e1'), ('oldid', 'a99c98be-767a-4e49-9025-2472b2d18b9c')]), 'diff=66a47b9e-232a-4838-8674-66fa1a5c76e1&oldid=a99c98be-767a-4e49-9025-2472b2d18b9c')
webob.adhoc_attrs	{'language': 'en-us'}
wsgi process	'Multi process AND threads (?)'
wsgi.file_wrapper	<built-in method file_wrapper of mod_wsgi.Adapter object at 0xfe0b0b0>
wsgiorg.routing_args	(<routes.util.URLGenerator object at 0xf5e55ec>, {'action': u'diff', 'controller': u'revision', 'id': u'dbtune-audioscrobbler'})

Is there a good reason why the search box has a 'down arrow' icon when there is no drop-down menu? Or can this be usefully removed?

Is this ready for release? What needs to be done?

Issue 1. Help command without arguments fails:

$paster help --plugin ckan --config development.ini

gives:

EITHER

Command help not recognized

OR

paster help: error: no such option: --plugin

Issue 2: Harvester command with arguments fails.

$ paster harvester Traceback (most recent call last): ...

cmd = self.args[0]

IndexError?: list index out of range

It could be interesting for the publicdata.eu project to add some CSW datasources. Thanks to the INSPIRE directive, there are quite a few national catalogs of geodata that could be worth harvesting. Work on this should include:

• Compose Endpoint List (1d)
• Harvest on staging system and evaluate which sources have useful material (2d)

First point is being performed in this GDoc: ​https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Atp3cZFjuIOAdDBVQWRINnlfN1d0b2lleHVEdjBSb2c&authkey=CNu4hsEB&hl=en_US#gid=0

It is essential packages have a version attribute to assist in tracking releases etc (and to allow compatibility with other packaging systems e.g. distutils which is being used by datapkg).

cost: 2h

It is not currently possible to assign or remove groups by adding or removing their group name from the "groups" list on the REST API. This should be allowed, as it is easier than first adding a package and then editing each group it must belong to.

It is possible to use the CKAN API to insert JSON format data into package extra values, but this data is displayed in the package edit form.

Example: Package ​http://ckan.net/package/hbz_unioncatalog in the API the extra value as a list:

"extras": {"publishingInstitution": ["http://lobid.org/organisation/DE-605", "http://lobid.org/organisation/DE-290"...

yet when you edit the package it loses all the quotes and brackets: ​http://ckan.net/package/edit/hbz_unioncatalog {{{​http://lobid.org/organisation/DE-605http://lobid.org/organisation/DE-290... }}} so when you save the package, the list is mangled into a bad string.

It is too easy to make a mistake with the migrations at the moment. A more systematic way of doing them is needed and this needs to be documented.

It is very annoying that you have to wrap links in <...> and most people don't bother. Extend h.markdown in code and markdown in js to fix this.

(We should also support 'package' links etc in javascript?)

*ADDITIONAL*

• Note that CKAN flavoured markdown will not currently recognise dataset:my_data links (still uses package).
• Move the markdown api to /util/markdown

It only passes "q", but the whole query must be serialized.

It seems that searching for extras_foo:value works with solr, but extras_foo.bar:value doesn't. No theory on why.

It should run the script to create the debian package, boot a VM, install the debian package on the VM, boot a CKAN instance, then run the tests.

It takes several minutes to print the 'rights' on DGU, which is annoying when you only want to grep for a few lines. Much quicker than grepping is to filter in the query.

It would be useful (well for DGU, but no doubt for core too) to have be able to create multiple users with full properties using one commit. Also to be able to create rights (UserObjectRoles?).

It's because Package carries several out-of-band values, which are snagged on the way back out. Entity get response also can't be posted.

However, post response can be re-posted (because it isn't the same as the register-post/entity-get responses.

An issue for CKAN too.

Sub-ticket of #961 (form, validation, model sync meta-ticket) and depends on that work.

It's hard to understand what's going on with the functional tests because there is so much going on in inherited classes. Would be better to be explicit in constructors, even if it involves cut & paste.

It's not good to have ckanext doing lots of different things with different dependencies. Split it off into:

• ckanext-importlib

etc.

And then deprecate the ckanext repo itself.

It's really bad to do from module import * and CKAN has a lot of them. I suggest a three-pronged approach:

1. Don't add any more of them.

2. When you're programming if you see an easy opportunity to remove one then do so.

3. At some point we should task someone to go through the code and remove them all (which is what this ticket is for), but this will be a big job and may break things.

We should also get rid of most or all of the from module import foo and from module import foo, bar statements.

I think the right thing to do is just import module and then use module.foo in your code. But if you find yourself doing module.foo.bar then you may have a code smell.

See: ​http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/doanddont.html

Jaakko Louhio reported that the wrong Routes version got installed during CKAN's package install.

He is using Ubuntu 10.04 and he believes it install Routes 1.12.3 instead of what we use which is 1.11.

John did this a while ago.

Just a ticket to keep track of a few suggested template changes.

Just like we display download counts we should display view counts.

Just to track @tauberer patch on Github. Probably going to 1.8.1

Largely an integration of work from ckanjs

• #1295 Simplify package create form
• Improvements to edit form
  • Split edit form into sections
  • Remove preview from edit form (introduce inline preview on description/notes field)
• #1296 Improved resource adding/editing on dataset/page page
• #878 File upload integrated into resource creation
• #1297 In-place editing of notes field for existing packages

Later versions of python use json which is better than simplejson, but it must be kept as an option for compatibility. So centralise the import of json to ckan.lib.helpers.

Limit registering data to authenticated users either via API or manually.

• Edits may only be made by authenticated entities
• Priority: 5

Lists are being converted to unicode and then translated into a json when getting from the api.

Log message on package edit page is no longer persisted through a preview (no doubt due to recent form upgrades). Let's fix this.

cost: 0.5h

Look for all places where model is accessed and check authorization is checked.

Document holes (and, as necessary, suggestions for fixes) as new tickets. Likely areas that need looking at:

• search i/f
• package WUI commit

Write holes are obviously much more significant to us than read holes.

Looking at: ​http://ckan.net/package/rkb-explorer-acm

'rkb-explorer-resex' gets display multiple times and shouldn't

Looks like recent cleanups in CKAN broke an import in the extension:

​https://gist.github.com/2935688

Looks like uploading a file with foreign characters fails due to encoding reasons.

URL: http://thedatahub.org/api/storage/auth/form/2011-12-19T124447/Ministerstvo-financ%C3%AD-%C4%8Cesk%C3%A9-republiky-_-P%C5%99%C3%ADprava-rozpo%C4%8Dtu.pdf
Module weberror.errormiddleware:162 in __call__
<<              __traceback_supplement__ = Supplement, self, environ
                   sr_checker = ResponseStartChecker(start_response)
                   app_iter = self.application(environ, sr_checker)
                   return self.make_catching_iter(app_iter, environ, sr_checker)
               except:
>>  app_iter = self.application(environ, sr_checker)
Module beaker.middleware:73 in __call__
<<                                                     self.cache_manager)
               environ[self.environ_key] = self.cache_manager
               return self.app(environ, start_response)
>>  return self.app(environ, start_response)
Module beaker.middleware:152 in __call__
<<                          headers.append(('Set-cookie', cookie))
                   return start_response(status, headers, exc_info)
               return self.wrap_app(environ, session_start_response)
           
           def _get_session(self):
>>  return self.wrap_app(environ, session_start_response)
Module routes.middleware:130 in __call__
<<                  environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] = environ['SCRIPT_NAME'][:-1]
               
               response = self.app(environ, start_response)
               
               # Wrapped in try as in rare cases the attribute will be gone already
>>  response = self.app(environ, start_response)
Module pylons.wsgiapp:125 in __call__
<<          
               controller = self.resolve(environ, start_response)
               response = self.dispatch(controller, environ, start_response)
               
               if 'paste.testing_variables' in environ and hasattr(response,
>>  response = self.dispatch(controller, environ, start_response)
Module pylons.wsgiapp:324 in dispatch
<<          if log_debug:
                   log.debug("Calling controller class with WSGI interface")
               return controller(environ, start_response)
           
           def load_test_env(self, environ):
>>  return controller(environ, start_response)
Module ckan.lib.base:123 in __call__
<<          # available in environ['pylons.routes_dict']    
               try:
                   return WSGIController.__call__(self, environ, start_response)
               finally:
                   model.Session.remove()
>>  return WSGIController.__call__(self, environ, start_response)
Module pylons.controllers.core:221 in __call__
<<                  return response(environ, self.start_response)
               
               response = self._dispatch_call()
               if not start_response_called:
                   self.start_response = start_response
>>  response = self._dispatch_call()
Module pylons.controllers.core:172 in _dispatch_call
<<              req.environ['pylons.action_method'] = func
                   
                   response = self._inspect_call(func)
               else:
                   if log_debug:
>>  response = self._inspect_call(func)
Module pylons.controllers.core:107 in _inspect_call
<<                        func.__name__, args)
               try:
                   result = self._perform_call(func, args)
               except HTTPException, httpe:
                   if log_debug:
>>  result = self._perform_call(func, args)
Module pylons.controllers.core:60 in _perform_call
<<          """Hide the traceback for everything above this method"""
               __traceback_hide__ = 'before_and_this'
               return func(**args)
           
           def _inspect_call(self, func):
>>  return func(**args)
Module ckanext.storage.controller:2 in auth_form
Module ckan.lib.jsonp:26 in jsonpify
<<      Very much modelled after pylons.decorators.jsonify .
           """
           data = func(*args, **kwargs)
           return to_jsonp(data)
>>  data = func(*args, **kwargs)
Module ckanext.storage.controller:301 in auth_form
<<          method = 'POST'
               authorize(method, bucket, label, c.userobj, self.ofs)
               data = self._get_form_data(label)
               return data
>>  authorize(method, bucket, label, c.userobj, self.ofs)
Module ckanext.storage.controller:79 in authorize
<<      if method != 'GET':
               # do not allow overwriting
               if ofs.exists(bucket, key):
                   abort(409)
               # now check user stuff
>>  if ofs.exists(bucket, key):
Module ofs.remote.botostore:53 in exists
<<          if bucket is None: 
                   return False
               return (label is None) or (label in bucket)
           
           def claim_bucket(self, bucket):
>>  return (label is None) or (label in bucket)
Module boto.s3.bucket:87 in __contains__
<<      def __contains__(self, key_name):
              return not (self.get_key(key_name) is None)
       
           def startElement(self, name, attrs, connection):
>>  return not (self.get_key(key_name) is None)
Module boto.s3.bucket:144 in get_key
<<          response = self.connection.make_request('HEAD', self.name, key_name,
                                                       headers=headers,
                                                       query_args=query_args)
               # Allow any success status (2xx) - for example this lets us
               # support Range gets, which return status 206:
>>  query_args=query_args)
Module boto.s3.connection:388 in make_request
<<          if isinstance(key, Key):
                   key = key.name
               path = self.calling_format.build_path_base(bucket, key)
               boto.log.debug('path=%s' % path)
               auth_path = self.calling_format.build_auth_path(bucket, key)
>>  path = self.calling_format.build_path_base(bucket, key)
Module boto.s3.connection:88 in build_path_base
<<      def build_path_base(self, bucket, key=''):
               return '/%s' % urllib.quote(key)
       
       class SubdomainCallingFormat(_CallingFormat):
>>  return '/%s' % urllib.quote(key)
Module urllib:1222 in quote
<<              safe_map[c] = (c in safe) and c or ('%%%02X' % i)
               _safemaps[cachekey] = safe_map
           res = map(safe_map.__getitem__, s)
           return ''.join(res)
>>  res = map(safe_map.__getitem__, s)
KeyError: u'\xed'
CGI Variables
AUTH_TYPE	'cookie'
CONTENT_TYPE	'; charset=utf-8'
DOCUMENT_ROOT	'/htdocs'
GATEWAY_INTERFACE	'CGI/1.1'
HTTP_ACCEPT	'*/*'
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET	'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3'
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING	'gzip,deflate,sdch'
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE	'en-US,en;q=0.8'
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL	'max-age=259200'
HTTP_CONNECTION	'keep-alive'
HTTP_COOKIE	'thedatahub_net=27a7f095fcca1ea6b36df996d595e3278b16f4538862bf7f88d49e2000b9246547c8fd0e; auth_tkt="f9c6ab2b0d9fcd71c4c2408bc12fab544eef1c45elenaibp!userid_type:unicode"; auth_tkt="f9c6ab2b0d9fcd71c4c2408bc12fab544eef1c45elenaibp!userid_type:unicode"; ckan_user=elenaibp; ckan_display_name="Elena Mondo"; ckan_apikey=decd48b1-49ee-4250-bff4-98ccca9c02a5; hide_welcome_message=1; __utma=119670349.1809834699.1323782464.1324293066.1324298316.4; __utmb=119670349.3.10.1324298316; __utmc=119670349; __utmz=119670349.1323782464.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)'
HTTP_HOST	'thedatahub.org'
HTTP_REFERER	'http://thedatahub.org/dataset/edit/budget-library-czeck-republic'
HTTP_USER_AGENT	'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7'
HTTP_VIA	'1.1 localhost (squid/3.0.STABLE19)'
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR	'87.114.74.190'
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Lots of things rely on the old (i.e. pre-SOLR) search param formats, including ckanclient / DGU. Need a translation layer to convert these params (in api v1&2) to SOLR syntax.

This functionality was broken by the changes in #1277 which went into 1.5a

Main tasks:

• Integrated seamlessly into CKAN (authorization etc)
• Based off ElasticSearch?

Etherpad: ​http://ckan.okfnpad.org/webstore

Tasks

• New API point (config + controller) [0.75d]
  • /api/data/{resource-id}
• Authorization [0.5d]
• Documentation [0.25d]
• Upgrade data viewer to use ES [0.5d]
• Convert webstorer to new setup - ​http://github.com/okfn/ckanext-webstorer [1d] - #1753
  • See below
• "Create DataStore? Resource" in Resource creation (??)
  • Just creates a resource with blank url and datastore enabled (webstore_url non null)
• Tick box to enable DataStore? in Resource edit form (for time being would just set webstore_url to any non-null/non-empty value)
  • Also need to use this info in DataStore? extension?
• Create nice instructions on Resource page about using the DataStore?
• Rename webstore -> datastore
• Deploy [0.5d]

Details

Layout on ES

elasticsearch/{index}/{type-id}

index = ckan-{ckan-id}
type-id = resource-id (1)

Request path

Req => Nginx => CKAN App (authz) => req to elasticsearch and returns results

See as an example: ​https://github.com/okfn/elastic-proxy

Questions

1. How do we decide what to use in the viewer e.g. Webstore data versus DataProxy?
   • Check for existence of webstore_url on Resource (should really be webstore_enabled boolean or similar, however we stick with url for the time being because it exists and we avoid migration). If exists use Webstore o/w don't.
2. How do we decide when webstore is activated
   • Ans: see previous.
3. Do we (and how do we) allow for resources which are just for webstores
   • Ans: we have to set webstore_url = True ... on save. Or add a big button saying: "Create Blank Resource" ...
4. How does webstorer work ...
   • CSV import - NS: make sure we add e.g. rownum or id = rownum ...
   • Separate mini-service (webstorer.thedatahub.org ...)
5. How do we selectively disable recline where not appropriate (e.g. query support makes no sense for DataProxy?)
   • Ans: do not bother at present. Focus on Webstore route.
6. Where does geodata support come in (in Recline or separately)
   • This is a separate issue

User Story 1

User -> CKAN instance -> Add Dataset -> Adds a Resource via uploading a CSV file -> Save

=> Result = New Dataset + Resource + Data API to resource and nice Preview of the data

Solution:

1. Allow normal upload process
2. Webstorer queue task which should get triggered by new resource. Check the resource and if it can convert into the associated resource webstore database.
3. Update the resource in some way (set webstore_url)

User Stories

User Story 2

User -> CKAN instance -> Add Dataset -> Adds a Resource via linking to some remote file (CSV or otherwise) or uploading some data (CSV or otherwise)

=> Result = New Dataset + Resource + nice Preview of the data (wherever possible)

User Story 3

User -> CKAN instance -> Add Dataset -> Adds a Resource which will be webstore database in CKAN -> User saves data to this data store.

=> Result = New Dataset + Resource (Webstore resource) which can now be written to or read from by the user

Solution: just create a resource with blank url (or better, have a new option to create webstore resource ...)

Major UX grip and incredibly simple to do. May also want to have basic autocomplete support within the list (trivial to do as well I believe).

(Talk to RP about this re how we define lists of licenses).

Make bookmarklet to enable easy package registration on CKAN

Details

1. This requires redoing web interface to allow 1-step package creation/editing (as opposed to name then everything else approach at the moment)

Make lib/search.py pluggable so that we can plug in different search systems (e.g. SOLR).

Suggest we define a base Search class from which specific search implementations inherit (e.g. SQLSearch, SOLRSearch etc). The specific one being used would then be set via a config variable.

Make sure accented characters are normalized when indexed and when searched for.

Make sure the related item count is available on all dataset pages (inc. follow) when it is enabled.

Make the search results pagination styled by Bootstrap.

Needs putting into a <ul> structure. Current page and '..' need become links that are styled disabled.

Wanted by DGU.

Makes sense to keep all auth stuff under logic/auth.

Also decide which functions from new_authz.pu should be marked private with _.

Also decide which functions from new_authz.py are really helpers for the auth functions in get.py, update.py and delete.py, and should maybe moved to another file, e.g. logic/auth/helpers.py

Many users of CKAN want to have their own instance without much effort. Setting these up in separate places is a maintenance nightmare, we should much rather have some tenant separation in core CKAN. Some ideas:

• introduce model.Site and c.site
  • site has: custom CSS, extra_template_path, title, languages list, package_form, group_form (all configured via web UI)
• Subdomain detector to activate sites.
• use site in Authorizer instead of System, have a NullSite? for global things
• allow cross-site search
• packages are in a list of sites, m:n rather than 1:n
  • list of sites is string-based, can contain sites not in site table to express harvested external material which is not editable locally.

Markdown produces Debug logging, even when the pylons logging config is set to level of Info or Warning. This clogs up the logfile.

Migrate tables for activity streams

Missed the ckan prefix on the storage settings names so this needs to be fixed.

Most articles still refer and link to ckan.net, wiki.ckan.net and to packages

Most of CKANs storage options are tied to the USA. This brings concerns of data security for some organisations who may wish to adopt the system. ​Wuala is a distributed file system that stores data in a peer-to-peer manner. The company behind it, LaCie? sells storage for a fee. However, they also enable clients to have 'free' storage space when machines act as a storage node.

In order to be a storage node, a machine needs to be online for more than 14% of the time - roughly 4h per day. Most CKAN servers are likely to have a far greater uptime than this.

Supporting Wuala would go some way to enabling CKAN to be used in a secure manner. That is, CKAN could be promoted for organisational use where there is lots of data to be stored and large geographic distances to be managed. There is a ​Python client available and a fairly ​long Google Tech Talk that overviews the system.

Most of the get_group/add_member style calls should be handled, or at least provided via logic layer.

Don't need to break existing code, but do need to provide access via logic layer