Simon Willison

Detailed upgrade instructions for metadata.yaml -> datasette.yaml

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> `Exception: Datasette no longer accepts plugin configuration in --metadata. Move your "plugins" configuration blocks to a separate file - we suggest calling that datasette..json - and start Datasette with...

Mechanism for storing metadata in _metadata tables

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_Original title: Perhaps metadata should all live in a `_metadata` in-memory database_ Inspired by #1150 - metadata should be exposed as an API, and for large Datasette instances that API...

> This made me think. That `{"$env": "ENV_VAR"}` hack was introduced back here: > > - https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/538 > > The problem it was solving was that metadata was visible to...

Consider a request/response wrapping hook slightly higher level than asgi_wrapper()

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There's a long justification for why this might be needed here: - https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-tokens/issues/10#issuecomment-1701820001 Short version: it would be neat if it was possible to stash some data on the `request`...

Move schema tables from _internal to _catalog

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This came up in discussion over: - https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/2174

The return type isn't documented here: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/4c3ef033110407f3b3dbce501659d523724985e0/docs/internals.rst#L327-L350 On inspecting the code I'm not 100% sure if it's possible for this. method to return `None`, or if it can only return...

I just had to write a one-off custom plugin to redirect niche-musems.com to www.niche-museums.com (https://github.com/simonw/museums/issues/21) - it would be great if this kind of thing could be handled by a...

Enforce import sort order with isort

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I want to use isort to order imports. A few steps here: - [x] Add a .isort.cfg file (see below) - [x] Use `isort -rc` to reformat existing code -...

If a row has a primary key of `null` various things break

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Stumbled across this while experimenting with `datasette-write-ui`. The error I got was a 500 on the `/db` page: > `'NoneType' object has no attribute 'encode'` Tracked it down to this...

Context base class to support documenting the context

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This idea first came up here: - https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2112#issuecomment-1652751140 If `datasette.render_template(...)` takes an optional `Context` subclass as an alternative to a context dictionary, I could then use dataclasses to define the...