{"id": "changelog:id82", "page": "changelog", "ref": "id82", "title": "0.29.2 (2019-07-13)", "content": "Bumped Uvicorn to 0.8.4, fixing a bug where the query string was not included in the server logs. ( #559 ) \n \n \n Fixed bug where the navigation breadcrumbs were not displayed correctly on the page for a custom query. ( #558 ) \n \n \n Fixed bug where custom query names containing unicode characters caused errors.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://www.uvicorn.org/\", \"label\": \"Uvicorn\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/559\", \"label\": \"#559\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/558\", \"label\": \"#558\"}]"} {"id": "configuration:configuration-reference-css-js", "page": "configuration", "ref": "configuration-reference-css-js", "title": "Custom CSS and JavaScript", "content": "Datasette can load additional CSS and JavaScript files, configured in datasette.yaml like this: \n [[[cog\nfrom metadata_doc import config_example\nconfig_example(cog, \"\"\"\n extra_css_urls:\n - https://simonwillison.net/static/css/all.bf8cd891642c.css\n extra_js_urls:\n - https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js\n\"\"\") \n ]]] \n [[[end]]] \n The extra CSS and JavaScript files will be linked in the
of every page: \n \n \n You can also specify a SRI (subresource integrity hash) for these assets: \n [[[cog\nconfig_example(cog, \"\"\"\n extra_css_urls:\n - url: https://simonwillison.net/static/css/all.bf8cd891642c.css\n sri: sha384-9qIZekWUyjCyDIf2YK1FRoKiPJq4PHt6tp/ulnuuyRBvazd0hG7pWbE99zvwSznI\n extra_js_urls:\n - url: https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js\n sri: sha256-k2WSCIexGzOj3Euiig+TlR8gA0EmPjuc79OEeY5L45g=\n\"\"\") \n ]]] \n [[[end]]] \n This will produce: \n \n \n Modern browsers will only execute the stylesheet or JavaScript if the SRI hash\n matches the content served. You can generate hashes using www.srihash.org \n Items in \"extra_js_urls\" can specify \"module\": true if they reference JavaScript that uses JavaScript modules . This configuration: \n [[[cog\nconfig_example(cog, \"\"\"\n extra_js_urls:\n - url: https://example.datasette.io/module.js\n module: true\n\"\"\") \n ]]] \n [[[end]]] \n Will produce this HTML: \n ", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Configuration\", null]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://www.srihash.org/\", \"label\": \"www.srihash.org\"}, {\"href\": \"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Modules\", \"label\": \"JavaScript modules\"}]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-extra-css-urls", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-hook-extra-css-urls", "title": "extra_css_urls(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette)", "content": "This takes the same arguments as extra_template_vars(...) \n Return a list of extra CSS URLs that should be included on the page. These can\n take advantage of the CSS class hooks described in Custom pages and templates . \n This can be a list of URLs: \n from datasette import hookimpl\n\n\n@hookimpl\ndef extra_css_urls():\n return [\n \"https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css\"\n ] \n Or a list of dictionaries defining both a URL and an\n SRI hash : \n @hookimpl\ndef extra_css_urls():\n return [\n {\n \"url\": \"https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css\",\n \"sri\": \"sha384-9gVQ4dYFwwWSjIDZnLEWnxCjeSWFphJiwGPXr1jddIhOegiu1FwO5qRGvFXOdJZ4\",\n }\n ] \n This function can also return an awaitable function, useful if it needs to run any async code: \n @hookimpl\ndef extra_css_urls(datasette):\n async def inner():\n db = datasette.get_database()\n results = await db.execute(\n \"select url from css_files\"\n )\n return [r[0] for r in results]\n\n return inner \n Examples: datasette-cluster-map , datasette-vega", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\", \"Page extras\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://www.srihash.org/\", \"label\": \"SRI hash\"}, {\"href\": \"https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-cluster-map\", \"label\": \"datasette-cluster-map\"}, {\"href\": \"https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-vega\", \"label\": \"datasette-vega\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:new-configuration-settings", "page": "changelog", "ref": "new-configuration-settings", "title": "New configuration settings", "content": "Datasette's Settings now also supports boolean settings. A number of new\n configuration options have been added: \n \n \n num_sql_threads - the number of threads used to execute SQLite queries. Defaults to 3. \n \n \n allow_facet - enable or disable custom Facets using the _facet= parameter. Defaults to on. \n \n \n suggest_facets - should Datasette suggest facets? Defaults to on. \n \n \n allow_download - should users be allowed to download the entire SQLite database? Defaults to on. \n \n \n allow_sql - should users be allowed to execute custom SQL queries? Defaults to on. \n \n \n default_cache_ttl - Default HTTP caching max-age header in seconds. Defaults to 365 days - caching can be disabled entirely by settings this to 0. \n \n \n cache_size_kb - Set the amount of memory SQLite uses for its per-connection cache , in KB. \n \n \n allow_csv_stream - allow users to stream entire result sets as a single CSV file. Defaults to on. \n \n \n max_csv_mb - maximum size of a returned CSV file in MB. Defaults to 100MB, set to 0 to disable this limit.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.23 (2018-06-18)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_cache_size\", \"label\": \"per-connection cache\"}]"} {"id": "settings:setting-cache-size-kb", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-cache-size-kb", "title": "cache_size_kb", "content": "Sets the amount of memory SQLite uses for its per-connection cache , in KB. \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting cache_size_kb 5000", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_cache_size\", \"label\": \"per-connection cache\"}]"} {"id": "full_text_search:full-text-search-advanced-queries", "page": "full_text_search", "ref": "full-text-search-advanced-queries", "title": "Advanced SQLite search queries", "content": "SQLite full-text search includes support for a variety of advanced queries , including AND , OR , NOT and NEAR . \n By default Datasette disables these features to ensure they do not cause errors or confusion for users who are not aware of them. You can disable this escaping and use the advanced queries by adding &_searchmode=raw to the table page query string. \n If you want to enable these operators by default for a specific table, you can do so by adding \"searchmode\": \"raw\" to the metadata configuration for that table, see Configuring full-text search for a table or view . \n If that option has been specified in the table metadata but you want to over-ride it and return to the default behavior you can append &_searchmode=escaped to the query string.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Full-text search\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html#full_text_query_syntax\", \"label\": \"a variety of advanced queries\"}]"} {"id": "full_text_search:full-text-search-enabling", "page": "full_text_search", "ref": "full-text-search-enabling", "title": "Enabling full-text search for a SQLite table", "content": "Datasette takes advantage of the external content mechanism in SQLite, which allows a full-text search virtual table to be associated with the contents of another SQLite table. \n To set up full-text search for a table, you need to do two things: \n \n \n Create a new FTS virtual table associated with your table \n \n \n Populate that FTS table with the data that you would like to be able to run searches against", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Full-text search\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://www.sqlite.org/fts3.html#_external_content_fts4_tables_\", \"label\": \"external content\"}]"} {"id": "json_api:json-api-table-arguments", "page": "json_api", "ref": "json-api-table-arguments", "title": "Special table arguments", "content": "?_col=COLUMN1&_col=COLUMN2 \n \n List specific columns to display. These will be shown along with any primary keys. \n \n \n \n ?_nocol=COLUMN1&_nocol=COLUMN2 \n \n List specific columns to hide - any column not listed will be displayed. Primary keys cannot be hidden. \n \n \n \n ?_labels=on/off \n \n Expand foreign key references for every possible column. See below. \n \n \n \n ?_label=COLUMN1&_label=COLUMN2 \n \n Expand foreign key references for one or more specified columns. \n \n \n \n ?_size=1000 or ?_size=max \n \n Sets a custom page size. This cannot exceed the max_returned_rows limit\n passed to datasette serve . Use max to get max_returned_rows . \n \n \n \n ?_sort=COLUMN \n \n Sorts the results by the specified column. \n \n \n \n ?_sort_desc=COLUMN \n \n Sorts the results by the specified column in descending order. \n \n \n \n ?_search=keywords \n \n For SQLite tables that have been configured for\n full-text search executes a search\n with the provided keywords. \n \n \n \n ?_search_COLUMN=keywords \n \n Like _search= but allows you to specify the column to be searched, as\n opposed to searching all columns that have been indexed by FTS. \n \n \n \n ?_searchmode=raw \n \n With this option, queries passed to ?_search= or ?_search_COLUMN= will\n not have special characters escaped. This means you can make use of the full\n set of advanced SQLite FTS syntax ,\n though this could potentially result in errors if the wrong syntax is used. \n \n \n \n ?_where=SQL-fragment \n \n If the execute-sql permission is enabled, this parameter\n can be used to pass one or more additional SQL fragments to be used in the\n WHERE clause of the SQL used to query the table. \n This is particularly useful if you are building a JavaScript application\n that needs to do something creative but still wants the other conveniences\n provided by the table view (such as faceting) and hence would like not to\n have to construct a completely custom SQL query. \n Some examples: \n \n \n facetable?_where=_neighborhood like \"%c%\"&_where=_city_id=3 \n \n \n facetable?_where=_city_id in (select id from facet_cities where name != \"Detroit\") \n \n \n \n \n \n ?_through={json} \n \n This can be used to filter rows via a join against another table. \n The JSON parameter must include three keys: table , column and value . \n table must be a table that the current table is related to via a foreign key relationship. \n column must be a column in that other table. \n value is the value that you want to match against. \n For example, to filter roadside_attractions to just show the attractions that have a characteristic of \"museum\", you would construct this JSON: \n {\n \"table\": \"roadside_attraction_characteristics\",\n \"column\": \"characteristic_id\",\n \"value\": \"1\"\n} \n As a URL, that looks like this: \n ?_through={%22table%22:%22roadside_attraction_characteristics%22,%22column%22:%22characteristic_id%22,%22value%22:%221%22} \n Here's an example . \n \n \n \n ?_next=TOKEN \n \n Pagination by continuation token - pass the token that was returned in the\n \"next\" property by the previous page. \n \n \n \n ?_facet=column \n \n Facet by column. Can be applied multiple times, see Facets . Only works on the default JSON output, not on any of the custom shapes. \n \n \n \n ?_facet_size=100 \n \n Increase the number of facet results returned for each facet. Use ?_facet_size=max for the maximum available size, determined by max_returned_rows . \n \n \n \n ?_nofacet=1 \n \n Disable all facets and facet suggestions for this page, including any defined by Facets in metadata . \n \n \n \n ?_nosuggest=1 \n \n Disable facet suggestions for this page. \n \n \n \n ?_nocount=1 \n \n Disable the select count(*) query used on this page - a count of None will be returned instead.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"JSON API\", \"Table arguments\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://www.sqlite.org/fts3.html\", \"label\": \"full-text search\"}, {\"href\": \"https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html#full_text_query_syntax\", \"label\": \"advanced SQLite FTS syntax\"}, {\"href\": \"https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_where=_neighborhood%20like%20%22%c%%22&_where=_city_id=3\", \"label\": \"facetable?_where=_neighborhood like \\\"%c%\\\"&_where=_city_id=3\"}, {\"href\": \"https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_where=_city_id%20in%20(select%20id%20from%20facet_cities%20where%20name%20!=%20%22Detroit%22)\", \"label\": \"facetable?_where=_city_id in (select id from facet_cities where name != \\\"Detroit\\\")\"}, {\"href\": \"https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/roadside_attractions?_through={%22table%22:%22roadside_attraction_characteristics%22,%22column%22:%22characteristic_id%22,%22value%22:%221%22}\", \"label\": \"an example\"}]"} {"id": "full_text_search:id1", "page": "full_text_search", "ref": "id1", "title": "Full-text search", "content": "SQLite includes a powerful mechanism for enabling full-text search against SQLite records. Datasette can detect if a table has had full-text search configured for it in the underlying database and display a search interface for filtering that table. \n Here's an example search : \n \n Datasette automatically detects which tables have been configured for full-text search.", "breadcrumbs": "[]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://www.sqlite.org/fts3.html\", \"label\": \"a powerful mechanism for enabling full-text search\"}, {\"href\": \"https://register-of-members-interests.datasettes.com/regmem/items?_search=hamper&_sort_desc=date\", \"label\": \"an example search\"}]"} {"id": "installation:installation-pip", "page": "installation", "ref": "installation-pip", "title": "Using pip", "content": "Datasette requires Python 3.8 or higher. The Python.org Python For Beginners page has instructions for getting started. \n You can install Datasette and its dependencies using pip : \n pip install datasette \n You can now run Datasette like so: \n datasette", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Installation\", \"Basic installation\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/\", \"label\": \"Python.org Python For Beginners\"}]"} {"id": "testing_plugins:testing-datasette-client", "page": "testing_plugins", "ref": "testing-datasette-client", "title": "Using datasette.client in tests", "content": "The datasette.client mechanism is designed for use in tests. It provides access to a pre-configured HTTPX async client instance that can make GET, POST and other HTTP requests against a Datasette instance from inside a test. \n A simple test looks like this: \n @pytest.mark.asyncio\nasync def test_homepage():\n ds = Datasette(memory=True)\n response = await ds.client.get(\"/\")\n html = response.text\n assert \"