http://localhost/ticket/43 <h1 id="AsA">As A</h1> <p> User </p> <h1 id="IWantTo">I Want To</h1> <p> Add arbitrary named attributes to packages (an attribute being a name, type, value triple). </p> <h1 id="Details">Details</h1> <ul><li>We will do this using a dedicated (versioned) table associated to Package </li><li>Do we allow multiple attributes of the same name? <ul><li>For the present: No (since we will key by attribute name) </li><li>Could allow for single attribute but with multiple values using json list ... </li></ul></li><li>What types do we allow or do we just rely on JSON to take care of this? </li></ul><h1 id="QuestionsOriginal">Questions (Original)</h1> <ul><li>How complex is this to implement? </li><li>What would an arbitrary user be able to edit? Possibilities: <ol><li>'create new attribute' and setting the value (so name and type would be chosen from predefined list). </li><li>'create', setting of name and value (but not type -- type already set in predefined list) </li></ol></li><li>Could just use (machine) tags -- though this could be seen as a bit of a hack. </li><li>Would solve having to create special file/url attributes (though I think that perhaps file stuff is important enough to merit first class support in the domain model -- though, that said, since one won't want to have a file limit adding unlimited file support is very similar to unlimited attributes of arbitrary type). </li></ul> en-us http://assets.okfn.org/p/ckan/img/ckan_logo_shortname.png http://localhost/ticket/43 Trac 0.12.3 rgrp Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:03:50 GMT http://localhost/ticket/43#comment:1 http://localhost/ticket/43#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>milestone</strong> set to <em>v0.6</em> </li> </ul> Ticket rgrp Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:02:20 GMT http://localhost/ticket/43#comment:2 http://localhost/ticket/43#comment:2 <ul> <li><strong>priority</strong> changed from <em>major</em> to <em>minor</em> </li> <li><strong>milestone</strong> <em>v0.6</em> deleted </li> </ul> <p> This is currently low priority and should only happen after move to vdm 0.2 (sqlalchemy etc). </p> Ticket rgrp Fri, 08 May 2009 10:52:23 GMT http://localhost/ticket/43#comment:3 http://localhost/ticket/43#comment:3 <ul> <li><strong>priority</strong> changed from <em>minor</em> to <em>critical</em> </li> <li><strong>description</strong> modified (<a href="/ticket/43?action=diff&amp;version=3">diff</a>) </li> <li><strong>milestone</strong> set to <em>v0.9</em> </li> </ul> <p> Started work on this using "extra" table. See <a class="missing changeset" title="No default repository defined">r426</a>. </p> Ticket rgrp Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:39:55 GMT http://localhost/ticket/43#comment:4 http://localhost/ticket/43#comment:4 <ul> <li><strong>milestone</strong> changed from <em>v0.9</em> to <em>v0.95</em> </li> </ul> <p> Making this versioned/revisioned turns out to be slightly more complex than anticipated (need a stateful associated list). So defer to 0.95 </p> Ticket rgrp Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:32:42 GMT http://localhost/ticket/43#comment:5 http://localhost/ticket/43#comment:5 <p> Done in model in <a class="missing changeset" title="No default repository defined">changeset:7f9b19d4d54a</a>: "Implement a fully *versioned* <a class="missing wiki">PackageExtra?</a> domain object in the model and attach to the Package object via a simple dict-like attribute named 'extras'.". </p> <p> However still need to integrate into WUI which can only happen after conversion to formalchemy (<a class="closed ticket" href="http://localhost/ticket/76" title="enhancement: Convert to use formalchemy for all forms (closed: fixed)">ticket:76</a>) is complete. </p> Ticket rgrp Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:43:22 GMT http://localhost/ticket/43#comment:6 http://localhost/ticket/43#comment:6 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>new</em> to <em>closed</em> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> set to <em>fixed</em> </li> </ul> <p> Split out wui work in two new tickets <a class="closed ticket" href="http://localhost/ticket/124" title="enhancement: Display Generic Package Attributes in WUI (closed: fixed)">ticket:124</a> (show) and <a class="closed ticket" href="http://localhost/ticket/125" title="enhancement: Edit Generic Package Attributes in WUI (closed: duplicate)">ticket:125</a> (edit) and therefore marking this as done. </p> Ticket