{"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-database-actions", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-hook-database-actions", "title": "database_actions(datasette, actor, database, request)", "content": "datasette  -  Datasette class \n                         \n                             You can use this to access plugin configuration options via  datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) , or to execute SQL queries. \n                         \n                     \n                     \n                         actor  - dictionary or None \n                         \n                             The currently authenticated  actor . \n                         \n                     \n                     \n                         database  - string \n                         \n                             The name of the database. \n                         \n                     \n                     \n                         request  -  Request object \n                         \n                             The current HTTP request. \n                         \n                     \n                 \n                 Populates an actions menu on the database page. \n                 This example adds a new database action for creating a table, if the user has the  edit-schema  permission: \n                 from datasette import hookimpl\n\n\n@hookimpl\ndef database_actions(datasette, actor, database):\n    async def inner():\n        if not await datasette.permission_allowed(\n            actor,\n            \"edit-schema\",\n            resource=database,\n            default=False,\n        ):\n            return []\n        return [\n            {\n                \"href\": datasette.urls.path(\n                    \"/-/edit-schema/{}/-/create\".format(\n                        database\n                    )\n                ),\n                \"label\": \"Create a table\",\n            }\n        ]\n\n    return inner \n                 Example:  datasette-graphql ,  datasette-edit-schema", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\", \"Action hooks\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-graphql\", \"label\": \"datasette-graphql\"}, {\"href\": \"https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-edit-schema\", \"label\": \"datasette-edit-schema\"}]"}