{"id": "changelog:id73", "page": "changelog", "ref": "id73", "title": "0.33 (2019-12-22)", "content": "rowid is now included in dropdown menus for filtering tables ( #636 ) \n \n \n Columns are now only suggested for faceting if they have at least one value with more than one record ( #638 ) \n \n \n Queries with no results now display \"0 results\" ( #637 ) \n \n \n Improved documentation for the --static option ( #641 ) \n \n \n asyncio task information is now included on the /-/threads debug page \n \n \n Bumped Uvicorn dependency 0.11 \n \n \n You can now use --port 0 to listen on an available port \n \n \n New template_debug setting for debugging templates, e.g. https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/roadside_attractions?_context=1 ( #654 )", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/636\", \"label\": \"#636\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/638\", \"label\": \"#638\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/637\", \"label\": \"#637\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/641\", \"label\": \"#641\"}, {\"href\": \"https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/roadside_attractions?_context=1\", \"label\": \"https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/roadside_attractions?_context=1\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/654\", \"label\": \"#654\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:new-plugin-hooks", "page": "changelog", "ref": "new-plugin-hooks", "title": "New plugin hooks", "content": "register_magic_parameters(datasette) can be used to define new types of magic canned query parameters. \n \n \n startup(datasette) can run custom code when Datasette first starts up. datasette-init is a new plugin that uses this hook to create database tables and views on startup if they have not yet been created. ( #834 ) \n \n \n canned_queries(datasette, database, actor) lets plugins provide additional canned queries beyond those defined in Datasette's metadata. See datasette-saved-queries for an example of this hook in action. ( #852 ) \n \n \n forbidden(datasette, request, message) is a hook for customizing how Datasette responds to 403 forbidden errors. 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This will attempt to set an alias after the deploy completes. \n \n \n Fixed a bug where the advanced CSV export form failed to include the currently selected filters ( #393 )", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/393\", \"label\": \"#393\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:id91", "page": "changelog", "ref": "id91", "title": "0.25.2 (2018-12-16)", "content": "datasette publish heroku now uses the python-3.6.7 runtime \n \n \n Added documentation on how to build the documentation \n \n \n Added documentation covering our release process \n \n \n Upgraded to pytest 4.0.2", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "changelog:id72", "page": "changelog", "ref": "id72", "title": "0.34 (2020-01-29)", "content": "_search= queries are now correctly escaped using a new escape_fts() custom SQL function. This means you can now run searches for strings like park. without seeing errors. ( #651 ) \n \n \n Google Cloud Run is no longer in beta, so datasette publish cloudrun has been updated to work even if the user has not installed the gcloud beta components package. Thanks, Katie McLaughlin ( #660 ) \n \n \n datasette package now accepts a --port option for specifying which port the resulting Docker container should listen on. 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For example, adding a template file called templates/pages/about.html will result in a new page being served at /about on your instance. See the custom pages documentation for full details, including how to return custom HTTP headers, redirects and status codes. ( #648 ) \n Configuration directory mode ( #731 ) allows you to define a custom Datasette instance as a directory. So instead of running the following: \n datasette one.db two.db \\\n --metadata=metadata.json \\\n --template-dir=templates/ \\\n --plugins-dir=plugins \\\n --static css:css \n You can instead arrange your files in a single directory called my-project and run this: \n datasette my-project/ \n Also in this release: \n \n \n New NOT LIKE table filter: ?colname__notlike=expression . ( #750 ) \n \n \n Datasette now has a pattern portfolio at /-/patterns - e.g. https://latest.datasette.io/-/patterns . This is a page that shows every Datasette user interface component in one place, to aid core development and people building custom CSS themes. ( #151 ) \n \n \n SQLite PRAGMA functions such as pragma_table_info(tablename) are now allowed in Datasette SQL queries. ( #761 ) \n \n \n Datasette pages now consistently return a content-type of text/html; charset=utf-8\" . ( #752 ) \n \n \n Datasette now handles an ASGI raw_path value of None , which should allow compatibility with the Mangum adapter for running ASGI apps on AWS Lambda. Thanks, Colin Dellow. ( #719 ) \n \n \n Installation documentation now covers how to Using pipx . ( #756 ) \n \n \n Improved the documentation for Full-text search . ( #748 )", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/648\", \"label\": \"#648\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/731\", \"label\": \"#731\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/750\", \"label\": \"#750\"}, {\"href\": \"https://latest.datasette.io/-/patterns\", \"label\": \"https://latest.datasette.io/-/patterns\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/151\", \"label\": \"#151\"}, {\"href\": \"https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragfunc\", \"label\": \"PRAGMA functions\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/761\", \"label\": \"#761\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/752\", \"label\": \"#752\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/erm/mangum\", \"label\": \"Mangum\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/719\", \"label\": \"#719\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/756\", \"label\": \"#756\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/748\", \"label\": \"#748\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:v1-0-a1", "page": "changelog", "ref": "v1-0-a1", "title": "1.0a1 (2022-12-01)", "content": "Write APIs now serve correct CORS headers if Datasette is started in --cors mode. See the full list of CORS headers in the documentation. ( #1922 ) \n \n \n Fixed a bug where the _memory database could be written to even though writes were not persisted. ( #1917 ) \n \n \n The https://latest.datasette.io/ demo instance now includes an ephemeral database which can be used to test Datasette's write APIs, using the new datasette-ephemeral-tables plugin to drop any created tables after five minutes. This database is only available if you sign in as the root user using the link on the homepage. ( #1915 ) \n \n \n Fixed a bug where hitting the write endpoints with a GET request returned a 500 error. It now returns a 405 (method not allowed) error instead. ( #1916 ) \n \n \n The list of endpoints in the API explorer now lists mutable databases first. ( #1918 ) \n \n \n The \"ignore\": true and \"replace\": true options for the insert API are now documented . 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\n{{ super() }}\n{% endblock %} \n \n \n --static option for datasette serve ( #160 ) \n You can now tell Datasette to serve static files from a specific location at a\n specific mountpoint. \n For example: \n datasette serve mydb.db --static extra-css:/tmp/static/css \n Now if you visit this URL: \n http://localhost:8001/extra-css/blah.css \n The following file will be served: \n /tmp/static/css/blah.css \n \n \n Canned query support. \n Named canned queries can now be defined in metadata.json like this: \n {\n \"databases\": {\n \"timezones\": {\n \"queries\": {\n \"timezone_for_point\": \"select tzid from timezones ...\"\n }\n }\n }\n} \n These will be shown in a new \"Queries\" section beneath \"Views\" on the database page. \n \n \n New datasette skeleton command for generating metadata.json ( #164 ) \n \n \n metadata.json support for per-table/per-database metadata ( #165 ) \n Also added support for descriptions and HTML descriptions. \n Here's an example metadata.json file illustrating custom per-database and per-\n table metadata: \n {\n \"title\": \"Overall datasette title\",\n \"description_html\": \"This is a description with HTML.\",\n \"databases\": {\n \"db1\": {\n \"title\": \"First database\",\n \"description\": \"This is a string description & has no HTML\",\n \"license_url\": \"http://example.com/\",\n \"license\": \"The example license\",\n \"queries\": {\n \"canned_query\": \"select * from table1 limit 3;\"\n },\n \"tables\": {\n \"table1\": {\n \"title\": \"Custom title for table1\",\n \"description\": \"Tables can have descriptions too\",\n \"source\": \"This has a custom source\",\n \"source_url\": \"http://example.com/\"\n }\n }\n }\n }\n} \n \n \n Renamed datasette build command to datasette inspect ( #130 ) \n \n \n Upgrade to Sanic 0.7.0 ( #168 ) \n https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/releases/tag/0.7.0 \n \n \n Package and publish commands now accept --static and --template-dir \n Example usage: \n datasette package --static css:extra-css/ --static js:extra-js/ \\\n sf-trees.db --template-dir templates/ --tag sf-trees --branch master \n This creates a local Docker image that includes copies of the templates/,\n extra-css/ and extra-js/ directories. You can then run it like this: \n docker run -p 8001:8001 sf-trees \n For publishing to Zeit now: \n datasette publish now --static css:extra-css/ --static js:extra-js/ \\\n sf-trees.db --template-dir templates/ --name sf-trees --branch master \n \n \n HTML comment showing which templates were considered for a page ( #171 )", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/custom_templates.html\", \"label\": \"to be customized\"}, {\"href\": \"https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/metadata.html\", \"label\": \"metadata.json format\"}, {\"href\": \"https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/sql_queries.html#canned-queries\", \"label\": \"canned queries\"}, {\"href\": \"https://www.srihash.org/\", \"label\": \"https://www.srihash.org/\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/153\", \"label\": \"#153\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/153\", \"label\": \"#153\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/160\", \"label\": \"#160\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/164\", \"label\": \"#164\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/165\", \"label\": \"#165\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/130\", \"label\": \"#130\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/168\", \"label\": \"#168\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/releases/tag/0.7.0\", \"label\": \"https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/releases/tag/0.7.0\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/171\", \"label\": \"#171\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:better-plugin-documentation", "page": "changelog", "ref": "better-plugin-documentation", "title": "Better plugin documentation", "content": "The plugin documentation has been re-arranged into four sections, including a brand new section on testing plugins. ( #687 ) \n \n \n Plugins introduces Datasette's plugin system and describes how to install and configure plugins. \n \n \n Writing plugins describes how to author plugins, from one-off single file plugins to packaged plugins that can be published to PyPI. It also describes how to start a plugin using the new datasette-plugin cookiecutter template. \n \n \n Plugin hooks is a full list of detailed documentation for every Datasette plugin hook. \n \n \n Testing plugins describes how to write tests for Datasette plugins, using pytest and HTTPX .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.45 (2020-07-01)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/687\", \"label\": \"#687\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin\", \"label\": \"datasette-plugin\"}, {\"href\": \"https://docs.pytest.org/\", \"label\": \"pytest\"}, {\"href\": \"https://www.python-httpx.org/\", \"label\": \"HTTPX\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:v1-0-a10", "page": "changelog", "ref": "v1-0-a10", "title": "1.0a10 (2024-02-17)", "content": "The only changes in this alpha correspond to the way Datasette handles database transactions. ( #2277 ) \n \n \n The database.execute_write_fn() method has a new transaction=True parameter. This defaults to True which means all functions executed using this method are now automatically wrapped in a transaction - previously the functions needed to roll transaction handling on their own, and many did not. \n \n \n Pass transaction=False to execute_write_fn() if you want to manually handle transactions in your function. \n \n \n Several internal Datasette features, including parts of the JSON write API , had been failing to wrap their operations in a transaction. This has been fixed by the new transaction=True default.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2277\", \"label\": \"#2277\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:faceting", "page": "changelog", "ref": "faceting", "title": "Faceting", "content": "The number of unique values in a facet is now always displayed. Previously it was only displayed if the user specified ?_facet_size=max . ( #1556 ) \n \n \n Facets of type date or array can now be configured in metadata.json , see Facets in metadata . Thanks, David Larlet. ( #1552 ) \n \n \n New ?_nosuggest=1 parameter for table views, which disables facet suggestion. ( #1557 ) \n \n \n Fixed bug where ?_facet_array=tags&_facet=tags would only display one of the two selected facets. 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( #904 )", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.51 (2020-10-31)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/904\", \"label\": \"#904\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:other-changes", "page": "changelog", "ref": "other-changes", "title": "Other changes", "content": "The new DATASETTE_TRACE_PLUGINS=1 environment variable turns on detailed trace output for every executed plugin hook, useful for debugging and understanding how the plugin system works at a low level. ( #2274 ) \n \n \n Datasette on Python 3.9 or above marks its non-cryptographic uses of the MD5 hash function as usedforsecurity=False , for compatibility with FIPS systems. ( #2270 ) \n \n \n SQL relating to Datasette's internal database now executes inside a transaction, avoiding a potential database locked error. ( #2273 ) \n \n \n The /-/threads debug page now identifies the database in the name associated with each dedicated write thread. ( #2265 ) \n \n \n The /db/-/create API now fires a insert-rows event if rows were inserted after the table was created. ( #2260 )", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"1.0a9 (2024-02-16)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2274\", \"label\": \"#2274\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2270\", \"label\": \"#2270\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2273\", \"label\": \"#2273\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2265\", \"label\": \"#2265\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2260\", \"label\": \"#2260\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:through-for-joins-through-many-to-many-tables", "page": "changelog", "ref": "through-for-joins-through-many-to-many-tables", "title": "?_through= for joins through many-to-many tables", "content": "The new ?_through={json} argument to the Table view allows records to be filtered based on a many-to-many relationship. See Special table arguments for full documentation - here's an example . ( #355 ) \n This feature was added to help support facet by many-to-many , which isn't quite ready yet but will be coming in the next Datasette release.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.29 (2019-07-07)\"]", "references": "[{\"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\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/355\", \"label\": \"#355\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/551\", \"label\": \"facet by many-to-many\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:id62", "page": "changelog", "ref": "id62", "title": "0.43 (2020-05-28)", "content": "The main focus of this release is a major upgrade to the register_output_renderer(datasette) plugin hook, which allows plugins to provide new output formats for Datasette such as datasette-atom and datasette-ics . \n \n \n Redesign of register_output_renderer(datasette) to provide more context to the render callback and support an optional \"can_render\" callback that controls if a suggested link to the output format is provided. ( #581 , #770 ) \n \n \n Visually distinguish float and integer columns - useful for figuring out why order-by-column might be returning unexpected results. ( #729 ) \n \n \n The Request object , which is passed to several plugin hooks, is now documented. ( #706 ) \n \n \n New metadata.json option for setting a custom default page size for specific tables and views, see Setting a custom page size . ( #751 ) \n \n \n Canned queries can now be configured with a default URL fragment hash, useful when working with plugins such as datasette-vega , see Additional canned query options . ( #706 ) \n \n \n Fixed a bug in datasette publish when running on operating systems where the /tmp directory lives in a different volume, using a backport of the Python 3.8 shutil.copytree() function. ( #744 ) \n \n \n Every plugin hook is now covered by the unit tests, and a new unit test checks that each plugin hook has at least one corresponding test. 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This can be used to sort a column in ascending or descending order, facet data by that column or filter the table to just rows that have a value for that column. \n Plugin authors can use the new datasette.client object to make internal HTTP requests from their plugins, allowing them to make use of Datasette's JSON API. ( #943 ) \n New Deploying Datasette documentation with guides for deploying Datasette on a Linux server using systemd or to hosting providers that support buildpacks . ( #514 , #997 ) \n Other improvements in this release: \n \n \n Publishing to Google Cloud Run documentation now covers Google Cloud SDK options. Thanks, Geoffrey Hing. ( #995 ) \n \n \n New datasette -o option which opens your browser as soon as Datasette starts up. ( #970 ) \n \n \n Datasette now sets sqlite3.enable_callback_tracebacks(True) so that errors in custom SQL functions will display tracebacks. ( #891 ) \n \n \n Fixed two rendering bugs with column headers in portrait mobile view. ( #978 , #980 ) \n \n \n New db.table_column_details(table) introspection method for retrieving full details of the columns in a specific table, see Database introspection . \n \n \n Fixed a routing bug with custom page wildcard templates. ( #996 ) \n \n \n datasette publish heroku now deploys using Python 3.8.6. \n \n \n New datasette publish heroku --tar= option. ( #969 ) \n \n \n OPTIONS requests against HTML pages no longer return a 500 error. 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On the\n table page the column headers can now be clicked to apply sort (or descending\n sort), or you can specify ?_sort=column or ?_sort_desc=column directly\n in the URL. \n \n \n table_rows => table_rows_count , filtered_table_rows =>\n filtered_table_rows_count \n Renamed properties. Closes #194 \n \n \n New sortable_columns option in metadata.json to control sort options. \n You can now explicitly set which columns in a table can be used for sorting\n using the _sort and _sort_desc arguments using metadata.json : \n {\n \"databases\": {\n \"database1\": {\n \"tables\": {\n \"example_table\": {\n \"sortable_columns\": [\n \"height\",\n \"weight\"\n ]\n }\n }\n }\n }\n} \n Refs #189 \n \n \n Column headers now link to sort/desc sort - refs #189 \n \n \n _sort and _sort_desc parameters for table views \n Allows for paginated sorted results based on a specified column. \n Refs #189 \n \n \n Total row count now correct even if _next applied \n \n \n Use .custom_sql() for _group_count implementation (refs #150 ) \n \n \n Make HTML title more readable in query template ( #180 ) [Ryan Pitts] \n \n \n New ?_shape=objects/object/lists param for JSON API ( #192 ) \n New _shape= parameter replacing old .jsono extension \n Now instead of this: \n /database/table.jsono \n We use the _shape parameter like this: \n /database/table.json?_shape=objects \n Also introduced a new _shape called object which looks like this: \n /database/table.json?_shape=object \n Returning an object for the rows key: \n ...\n\"rows\": {\n \"pk1\": {\n ...\n },\n \"pk2\": {\n ...\n }\n} \n Refs #122 \n \n \n Utility for writing test database fixtures to a .db file \n python tests/fixtures.py /tmp/hello.db \n This is useful for making a SQLite database of the test fixtures for\n interactive exploration. \n \n \n Compound primary key _next= now plays well with extra filters \n Closes #190 \n \n \n Fixed bug with keyset pagination over compound primary keys \n Refs #190 \n \n \n Database/Table views inherit source/license/source_url/license_url \n metadata \n If you set the source_url/license_url/source/license fields in your root\n metadata those values will now be inherited all the way down to the database\n and table templates. \n The title/description are NOT inherited. \n Also added unit tests for the HTML generated by the metadata. \n Refs #185 \n \n \n Add metadata, if it exists, to heroku temp dir ( #178 ) [Tony Hirst] \n \n \n Initial documentation for pagination \n \n \n Broke up test_app into test_api and test_html \n \n \n Fixed bug with .json path regular expression \n I had a table called geojson and it caused an exception because the regex\n was matching .json and not \\.json \n \n \n Deploy to Heroku with Python 3.6.3", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/194\", \"label\": \"#194\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/189\", \"label\": \"#189\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/189\", \"label\": \"#189\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/189\", \"label\": \"#189\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/150\", \"label\": \"#150\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/180\", \"label\": \"#180\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/192\", \"label\": \"#192\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/122\", \"label\": \"#122\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/190\", \"label\": \"#190\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/190\", \"label\": \"#190\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/185\", \"label\": \"#185\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/178\", \"label\": \"#178\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:id118", "page": "changelog", "ref": "id118", "title": "0.22 (2018-05-20)", "content": "The big new feature in this release is Facets . Datasette can now apply faceted browse to any column in any table. It will also suggest possible facets. See the Datasette Facets announcement post for more details. \n In addition to the work on facets: \n \n \n Added docs for introspection endpoints \n \n \n New --config option, added --help-config , closes #274 \n Removed the --page_size= argument to datasette serve in favour of: \n datasette serve --config default_page_size:50 mydb.db \n Added new help section: \n datasette --help-config \n Config options:\n default_page_size Default page size for the table view\n (default=100)\n max_returned_rows Maximum rows that can be returned from a table\n or custom query (default=1000)\n sql_time_limit_ms Time limit for a SQL query in milliseconds\n (default=1000)\n default_facet_size Number of values to return for requested facets\n (default=30)\n facet_time_limit_ms Time limit for calculating a requested facet\n (default=200)\n facet_suggest_time_limit_ms Time limit for calculating a suggested facet\n (default=50) \n \n \n Only apply responsive table styles to .rows-and-column \n Otherwise they interfere with tables in the description, e.g. on\n https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight/nba-elo%2Fnbaallelo \n \n \n Refactored views into new views/ modules, refs #256 \n \n \n Documentation for SQLite full-text search support, closes #253 \n \n \n /-/versions now includes SQLite fts_versions , closes #252", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://simonwillison.net/2018/May/20/datasette-facets/\", \"label\": \"Datasette Facets\"}, {\"href\": \"https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/introspection.html\", \"label\": \"docs for introspection endpoints\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/274\", \"label\": \"#274\"}, {\"href\": \"https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight/nba-elo%2Fnbaallelo\", \"label\": \"https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight/nba-elo%2Fnbaallelo\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/256\", \"label\": \"#256\"}, {\"href\": \"https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/full_text_search.html\", \"label\": \"Documentation for SQLite full-text search\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/253\", \"label\": \"#253\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/252\", \"label\": \"#252\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:plugin-hooks-and-internals", "page": "changelog", "ref": "plugin-hooks-and-internals", "title": "Plugin hooks and internals", "content": "The prepare_jinja2_environment(env, datasette) plugin hook now accepts an optional datasette argument. Hook implementations can also now return an async function which will be awaited automatically. ( #1809 ) \n \n \n Database(is_mutable=) now defaults to True . ( #1808 ) \n \n \n The datasette.check_visibility() method now accepts an optional permissions= list, allowing it to take multiple permissions into account at once when deciding if something should be shown as public or private. This has been used to correctly display padlock icons in more places in the Datasette interface. ( #1829 ) \n \n \n Datasette no longer enforces upper bounds on its dependencies. 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This can be used in conjunction with custom templates to customize the Datasette interface. datasette-auth-github uses this hook to add custom HTML to the new top navigation bar (which is designed to be modified by plugins, see #540 ).", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.29 (2019-07-07)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-github\", \"label\": \"datasette-auth-github\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/540\", \"label\": \"#540\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:log-out", "page": "changelog", "ref": "log-out", "title": "Log out", "content": "The ds_actor cookie can be used by plugins (or by Datasette's --root mechanism ) to authenticate users. The new /-/logout page provides a way to clear that cookie. \n A \"Log out\" button now shows in the global navigation provided the user is authenticated using the ds_actor cookie. ( #840 )", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.45 (2020-07-01)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/840\", \"label\": \"#840\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:permission-checks-now-consider-opinions-from-every-plugin", "page": "changelog", "ref": "permission-checks-now-consider-opinions-from-every-plugin", "title": "Permission checks now consider opinions from every plugin", "content": "The datasette.permission_allowed() method previously consulted every plugin that implemented the permission_allowed() plugin hook and obeyed the opinion of the last plugin to return a value. ( #2275 ) \n Datasette now consults every plugin and checks to see if any of them returned False (the veto rule), and if none of them did, it then checks to see if any of them returned True . \n This is explained at length in the new documentation covering How permissions are resolved .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"1.0a9 (2024-02-16)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2275\", \"label\": \"#2275\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:id53", "page": "changelog", "ref": "id53", "title": "0.47.3 (2020-08-15)", "content": "The datasette --get command-line mechanism now ensures any plugins using the startup() hook are correctly executed. ( #934 )", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/934\", \"label\": \"#934\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:id70", "page": "changelog", "ref": "id70", "title": "0.36 (2020-02-21)", "content": "The datasette object passed to plugins now has API documentation: Datasette class . ( #576 ) \n \n \n New methods on datasette : .add_database() and .remove_database() - documentation . ( #671 ) \n \n \n prepare_connection() plugin hook now takes optional datasette and database arguments - prepare_connection(conn, database, datasette) . ( #678 ) \n \n \n Added three new plugins and one new conversion tool to the The Datasette Ecosystem .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/576\", \"label\": \"#576\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/671\", \"label\": \"#671\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/678\", \"label\": \"#678\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:running-datasette-behind-a-proxy", "page": "changelog", "ref": "running-datasette-behind-a-proxy", "title": "Running Datasette behind a proxy", "content": "The base_url configuration option is designed to help run Datasette on a specific path behind a proxy - for example if you want to run an instance of Datasette at /my-datasette/ within your existing site's URL hierarchy, proxied behind nginx or Apache. \n Support for this configuration option has been greatly improved ( #1023 ), and guidelines for using it are now available in a new documentation section on Running Datasette behind a proxy . ( #1027 )", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.51 (2020-10-31)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1023\", \"label\": \"#1023\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1027\", \"label\": \"#1027\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:new-plugin-hook-asgi-wrapper", "page": "changelog", "ref": "new-plugin-hook-asgi-wrapper", "title": "New plugin hook: asgi_wrapper", "content": "The asgi_wrapper(datasette) plugin hook allows plugins to entirely wrap the Datasette ASGI application in their own ASGI middleware. ( #520 ) \n Two new plugins take advantage of this hook: \n \n \n datasette-auth-github adds a authentication layer: users will have to sign in using their GitHub account before they can view data or interact with Datasette. You can also use it to restrict access to specific GitHub users, or to members of specified GitHub organizations or teams . \n \n \n datasette-cors allows you to configure CORS headers for your Datasette instance. You can use this to enable JavaScript running on a whitelisted set of domains to make fetch() calls to the JSON API provided by your Datasette instance.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.29 (2019-07-07)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/520\", \"label\": \"#520\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-github\", \"label\": \"datasette-auth-github\"}, {\"href\": \"https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-organizations\", \"label\": \"organizations\"}, {\"href\": \"https://help.github.com/en/articles/organizing-members-into-teams\", \"label\": \"teams\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette-cors\", \"label\": \"datasette-cors\"}, {\"href\": \"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS\", \"label\": \"CORS headers\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:improved-support-for-spatialite", "page": "changelog", "ref": "improved-support-for-spatialite", "title": "Improved support for SpatiaLite", "content": "The SpatiaLite module \n for SQLite adds robust geospatial features to the database. \n Getting SpatiaLite working can be tricky, especially if you want to use the most\n recent alpha version (with support for K-nearest neighbor). \n Datasette now includes extensive documentation on SpatiaLite , and thanks to Ravi Kotecha our GitHub\n repo includes a Dockerfile that can build\n the latest SpatiaLite and configure it for use with Datasette. \n The datasette publish and datasette package commands now accept a new\n --spatialite argument which causes them to install and configure SpatiaLite\n as part of the container they deploy.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.23 (2018-06-18)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index\", \"label\": \"SpatiaLite module\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/r4vi\", \"label\": \"Ravi Kotecha\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/master/Dockerfile\", \"label\": \"Dockerfile\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:alter-table-support-for-create-insert-upsert-and-update", "page": "changelog", "ref": "alter-table-support-for-create-insert-upsert-and-update", "title": "Alter table support for create, insert, upsert and update", "content": "The JSON write API can now be used to apply simple alter table schema changes, provided the acting actor has the new alter-table permission. ( #2101 ) \n The only alter operation supported so far is adding new columns to an existing table. \n \n \n The /db/-/create API now adds new columns during large operations to create a table based on incoming example \"rows\" , in the case where one of the later rows includes columns that were not present in the earlier batches. This requires the create-table but not the alter-table permission. \n \n \n When /db/-/create is called with rows in a situation where the table may have been already created, an \"alter\": true key can be included to indicate that any missing columns from the new rows should be added to the table. 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Full details in issue #2262 . \n To avoid similar mistakes in the future the datasette.permission_allowed() method now specifies default= as a keyword-only argument.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"1.0a9 (2024-02-16)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2262\", \"label\": \"#2262\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:v1-0-a11", "page": "changelog", "ref": "v1-0-a11", "title": "1.0a11 (2024-02-19)", "content": "The \"replace\": true argument to the /db/table/-/insert API now requires the actor to have the update-row permission. ( #2279 ) \n \n \n Fixed some UI bugs in the interactive permissions debugging tool. ( #2278 ) \n \n \n The column action menu now aligns better with the cog icon, and positions itself taking into account the width of the browser window. 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( #283 ) \n \n \n --ssl-keyfile and --ssl-certfile options can be used to specify a TLS certificate, allowing Datasette to serve traffic over https:// without needing to run it behind a separate proxy. ( #1221 ) \n \n \n The /:memory: page has been renamed (and redirected) to /_memory for consistency with the new /_internal database introduced in Datasette 0.54. ( #1205 ) \n \n \n Added plugin testing documentation on Using pdb for errors thrown inside Datasette . ( #1207 ) \n \n \n The official Datasette Docker image now uses Python 3.7.10, applying the latest security fix for that Python version. 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This applies automatically to any POST request, which means plugins need to include a csrftoken in any POST forms that they render. They can do that like so: \n ", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.44 (2020-06-11)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/798\", \"label\": \"#798\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:id39", "page": "changelog", "ref": "id39", "title": "0.52.4 (2020-12-05)", "content": "Show pysqlite3 version on /-/versions , if installed. ( #1125 ) \n \n \n Errors output by Datasette (e.g. for invalid SQL queries) now go to stderr , not stdout . ( #1131 ) \n \n \n Fix for a startup error on windows caused by unnecessary from os import EX_CANTCREAT - thanks, Abdussamet Ko\u00e7ak. 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( #953 ) \n \n \n New --upgrade option for datasette install . ( #945 ) \n \n \n New datasette --pdb option. ( #962 ) \n \n \n datasette --get exit code now reflects the internal HTTP status code. ( #947 ) \n \n \n New raise_404() template function for returning 404 errors. ( #964 ) \n \n \n datasette publish heroku now deploys using Python 3.8.5 \n \n \n Upgraded CodeMirror to 5.57.0. ( #948 ) \n \n \n Upgraded code style to Black 20.8b1. ( #958 ) \n \n \n Fixed bug where selected facets were not correctly persisted in hidden form fields on the table page. ( #963 ) \n \n \n Renamed the default error template from 500.html to error.html . \n \n \n Custom error pages are now documented, see Custom error pages . 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If provided, this can be used to specify a branch\n published to GitHub that should be built into the container. \n This makes it easier to test code that has not yet been officially released to\n PyPI, e.g.: \n datasette publish now mydb.db --branch=master \n \n \n Implemented ?_search=XXX + UI if a FTS table is detected. \n Closes #131 \n \n \n Added datasette --version support. \n \n \n Table views now show expanded foreign key references, if possible. \n If a table has foreign key columns, and those foreign key tables have\n label_columns , the TableView will now query those other tables for the\n corresponding values and display those values as links in the corresponding\n table cells. \n label_columns are currently detected by the inspect() function, which looks\n for any table that has just two columns - an ID column and one other - and\n sets the label_column to be that second non-ID column. \n \n \n Don't prevent tabbing to \"Run SQL\" button ( #117 ) [Robert Gieseke] \n See comment in #115 \n \n \n Add keyboard shortcut to execute SQL query ( #115 ) [Robert Gieseke] \n \n \n Allow --load-extension to be set via environment variable. \n \n \n Add support for ?field__isnull=1 ( #107 ) [Ray N] \n \n \n Add spatialite, switch to debian and local build ( #114 ) [Ariel N\u00fa\u00f1ez] \n \n \n Added --load-extension argument to datasette serve. \n Allows loading of SQLite extensions. 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Datasette now provides links for users to download this data directly from Datasette, and uses those links to make binary data available from CSV exports. See Binary data for more details. ( #1036 and #1034 ).", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.51 (2020-10-31)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1036\", \"label\": \"#1036\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1034\", \"label\": \"#1034\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:v0-28-register-output-renderer", "page": "changelog", "ref": "v0-28-register-output-renderer", "title": "register_output_renderer plugins", "content": "Russ Garrett implemented a new Datasette plugin hook called register_output_renderer ( #441 ) which allows plugins to create additional output renderers in addition to Datasette's default .json and .csv . \n Russ's in-development datasette-geo plugin includes an example of this hook being used to output .geojson automatically converted from SpatiaLite.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.28 (2019-05-19)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/441\", \"label\": \"#441\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/russss/datasette-geo\", \"label\": \"datasette-geo\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/russss/datasette-geo/blob/d4cecc020848bbde91e9e17bf352f7c70bc3dccf/datasette_plugin_geo/geojson.py\", \"label\": \"an example\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:id154", "page": "changelog", "ref": "id154", "title": "0.17 (2018-04-13)", "content": "Release 0.17 to fix issues with PyPI", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "changelog:authentication", "page": "changelog", "ref": "authentication", "title": "Authentication", "content": "Prior to this release the Datasette ecosystem has treated authentication as exclusively the realm of plugins, most notably through datasette-auth-github . \n 0.44 introduces Authentication and permissions as core Datasette concepts ( #699 ). This enables different plugins to share responsibility for authenticating requests - you might have one plugin that handles user accounts and another one that allows automated access via API keys, for example. \n You'll need to install plugins if you want full user accounts, but default Datasette can now authenticate a single root user with the new --root command-line option, which outputs a one-time use URL to authenticate as a root actor ( #784 ): \n datasette fixtures.db --root \n http://127.0.0.1:8001/-/auth-token?token=5b632f8cd44b868df625f5a6e2185d88eea5b22237fd3cc8773f107cc4fd6477\nINFO: Started server process [14973]\nINFO: Waiting for application startup.\nINFO: Application startup complete.\nINFO: Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:8001 (Press CTRL+C to quit) \n Plugins can implement new ways of authenticating users using the new actor_from_request(datasette, request) hook.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.44 (2020-06-11)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-github\", \"label\": \"datasette-auth-github\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/699\", \"label\": \"#699\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/784\", \"label\": \"#784\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:id69", "page": "changelog", "ref": "id69", "title": "0.37 (2020-02-25)", "content": "Plugins now have a supported mechanism for writing to a database, using the new .execute_write() and .execute_write_fn() methods. Documentation . ( #682 ) \n \n \n Immutable databases that have had their rows counted using the inspect command now use the calculated count more effectively - thanks, Kevin Keogh. ( #666 ) \n \n \n --reload no longer restarts the server if a database file is modified, unless that database was opened immutable mode with -i . ( #494 ) \n \n \n New ?_searchmode=raw option turns off escaping for FTS queries in ?_search= allowing full use of SQLite's FTS5 query syntax . 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Secret configuration values describes how plugins can now specify that their settings should be read from a file or an environment variable: \n {\n \"plugins\": {\n \"datasette-auth-github\": {\n \"client_secret\": {\n \"$env\": \"GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET\"\n }\n }\n }\n} \n These plugin secrets can be set directly using datasette publish . See Custom metadata and plugins for details. 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View functions can be defined that accept any of the current datasette object, the current request , or the ASGI scope , send and receive objects.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.44 (2020-06-11)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/819\", \"label\": \"#819\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:configuration", "page": "changelog", "ref": "configuration", "title": "Configuration", "content": "Plugin configuration now lives in the datasette.yaml configuration file , passed to Datasette using the -c/--config option. Thanks, Alex Garcia. ( #2093 ) \n datasette -c datasette.yaml \n Where datasette.yaml contains configuration that looks like this: \n plugins:\n datasette-cluster-map:\n latitude_column: xlat\n longitude_column: xlon \n Previously plugins were configured in metadata.yaml , which was confusing as plugin settings were unrelated to database and table metadata. \n \n \n The -s/--setting option can now be used to set plugin configuration as well. See Configuration via the command-line for details. ( #2252 ) \n The above YAML configuration example using -s/--setting looks like this: \n datasette mydatabase.db \\\n -s plugins.datasette-cluster-map.latitude_column xlat \\\n -s plugins.datasette-cluster-map.longitude_column xlon \n \n \n The new /-/config page shows the current instance configuration, after redacting keys that could contain sensitive data such as API keys or passwords. ( #2254 ) \n \n \n Existing Datasette installations may already have configuration set in metadata.yaml that should be migrated to datasette.yaml . To avoid breaking these installations, Datasette will silently treat table configuration, plugin configuration and allow blocks in metadata as if they had been specified in configuration instead. ( #2247 ) ( #2248 ) ( #2249 ) \n \n \n Note that the datasette publish command has not yet been updated to accept a datasette.yaml configuration file. 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Docker containers used by datasette publish and datasette package both now use that version of Python. ( #1853 ) \n \n \n --load-extension option now supports entrypoints. Thanks, Alex Garcia. ( #1789 ) \n \n \n Facet size can now be set per-table with the new facet_size table metadata option. ( #1804 ) \n \n \n The truncate_cells_html setting now also affects long URLs in columns. ( #1805 ) \n \n \n The non-JavaScript SQL editor textarea now increases height to fit the SQL query. ( #1786 ) \n \n \n Facets are now displayed with better line-breaks in long values. Thanks, Daniel Rech. ( #1794 ) \n \n \n The settings.json file used in Configuration directory mode is now validated on startup. ( #1816 ) \n \n \n SQL queries can now include leading SQL comments, using /* ... */ or -- ... syntax. Thanks, Charles Nepote. ( #1860 ) \n \n \n SQL query is now re-displayed when terminated with a time limit error. ( #1819 ) \n \n \n The inspect data mechanism is now used to speed up server startup - thanks, Forest Gregg. ( #1834 ) \n \n \n In Configuration directory mode databases with filenames ending in .sqlite or .sqlite3 are now automatically added to the Datasette instance. ( #1646 ) \n \n \n Breadcrumb navigation display now respects the current user's permissions. 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( #1844 ) \n \n \n More detailed command descriptions on the CLI reference page. ( #1787 ) \n \n \n New documentation on Running Datasette using OpenRC - thanks, Adam Simpson. 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A plugin can now add additional datasette publish publishers in addition to the default now and heroku , both of which have been refactored into default plugins. publish_subcommand documentation . Closes #349 \n \n \n New render_cell plugin hook. Plugins can now customize how values are displayed in the HTML tables produced by Datasette's browsable interface. datasette-json-html and datasette-render-images are two new plugins that use this hook. render_cell documentation . Closes #352 \n \n \n New extra_body_script plugin hook, enabling plugins to provide additional JavaScript that should be added to the page footer. extra_body_script documentation . \n \n \n extra_css_urls and extra_js_urls hooks now take additional optional parameters, allowing them to be more selective about which pages they apply to. Documentation . \n \n \n You can now use the sortable_columns metadata setting to explicitly enable sort-by-column in the interface for database views, as well as for specific tables. \n \n \n The new fts_table and fts_pk metadata settings can now be used to explicitly configure full-text search for a table or a view , even if that table is not directly coupled to the SQLite FTS feature in the database schema itself. \n \n \n Datasette will now use pysqlite3 in place of the standard library sqlite3 module if it has been installed in the current environment. This makes it much easier to run Datasette against a more recent version of SQLite, including the just-released SQLite 3.25.0 which adds window function support. 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( #1770 ) \n \n \n The render_cell() plugin hook is now also passed a row argument, representing the sqlite3.Row object that is being rendered. ( #1300 ) \n \n \n The configuration directory is now stored in datasette.config_dir , making it available to plugins. Thanks, Chris Amico. ( #1766 )", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.62 (2022-08-14)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1770\", \"label\": \"#1770\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1300\", \"label\": \"#1300\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1766\", \"label\": \"#1766\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:plugins-and-internals", "page": "changelog", "ref": "plugins-and-internals", "title": "Plugins and internals", "content": "New plugin hook: filters_from_request(request, database, table, datasette) , which runs on the table page and can be used to support new custom query string parameters that modify the SQL query. ( #473 ) \n \n \n Added two additional methods for writing to the database: await db.execute_write_script(sql, block=True) and await db.execute_write_many(sql, params_seq, block=True) . ( #1570 ) \n \n \n The db.execute_write() internal method now defaults to blocking until the write operation has completed. Previously it defaulted to queuing the write and then continuing to run code while the write was in the queue. ( #1579 ) \n \n \n Database write connections now execute the prepare_connection(conn, database, datasette) plugin hook. ( #1564 ) \n \n \n The Datasette() constructor no longer requires the files= argument, and is now documented at Datasette class . ( #1563 ) \n \n \n The tracing feature now traces write queries, not just read queries. ( #1568 ) \n \n \n The query string variables exposed by request.args will now include blank strings for arguments such as foo in ?foo=&bar=1 rather than ignoring those parameters entirely. 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This mechanism is intended to be used by plugins that may need to display the actor who was responsible for something managed by that plugin: they can now resolve the recorded IDs of actors into the full actor objects. ( #2181 ) \n \n \n DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS environment variable for controlling which plugins are loaded by Datasette. ( #2164 ) \n \n \n Datasette now checks if the user has permission to view a table linked to by a foreign key before turning that foreign key into a clickable link. ( #2178 ) \n \n \n The execute-sql permission now implies that the actor can also view the database and instance. ( #2169 ) \n \n \n Documentation describing a pattern for building plugins that themselves define further hooks for other plugins. ( #1765 ) \n \n \n Datasette is now tested against the Python 3.12 preview. 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( #774 ) \n \n \n New datasette.get_database() method. \n \n \n Added _ prefix to many private, undocumented methods of the Datasette class. ( #576 ) \n \n \n Removed the db.get_outbound_foreign_keys() method which duplicated the behaviour of db.foreign_keys_for_table() . \n \n \n New await datasette.permission_allowed() method. \n \n \n /-/actor debugging endpoint for viewing the currently authenticated actor. \n \n \n New request.cookies property. \n \n \n /-/plugins endpoint now shows a list of hooks implemented by each plugin, e.g. https://latest.datasette.io/-/plugins?all=1 \n \n \n request.post_vars() method no longer discards empty values. \n \n \n New \"params\" canned query key for explicitly setting named parameters, see Canned query parameters . ( #797 ) \n \n \n request.args is now a MultiParams object. \n \n \n Fixed a bug with the datasette plugins command. ( #802 ) \n \n \n Nicer pattern for using make_app_client() in tests. ( #395 ) \n \n \n New request.actor property. \n \n \n Fixed broken CSS on nested 404 pages. ( #777 ) \n \n \n New request.url_vars property. ( #822 ) \n \n \n Fixed a bug with the python tests/fixtures.py command for outputting Datasette's testing fixtures database and plugins. ( #804 ) \n \n \n datasette publish heroku now deploys using Python 3.8.3. \n \n \n Added a warning that the register_facet_classes() hook is unstable and may change in the future. ( #830 ) \n \n \n The {\"$env\": \"ENVIRONMENT_VARIBALE\"} mechanism (see Secret configuration values ) now works with variables inside nested lists. 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This should make\n our tests on Python 3.5 in Travis much more stable. \n \n \n Support _search_COLUMN=text searches, closes #237 \n \n \n Show version on /-/plugins page, closes #248 \n \n \n ?_size=max option, closes #249 \n \n \n Added /-/versions and /-/versions.json , closes #244 \n Sample output: \n {\n \"python\": {\n \"version\": \"3.6.3\",\n \"full\": \"3.6.3 (default, Oct 4 2017, 06:09:38) \\n[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.37)]\"\n },\n \"datasette\": {\n \"version\": \"0.20\"\n },\n \"sqlite\": {\n \"version\": \"3.23.1\",\n \"extensions\": {\n \"json1\": null,\n \"spatialite\": \"4.3.0a\"\n }\n }\n} \n \n \n Renamed ?_sql_time_limit_ms= to ?_timelimit , closes #242 \n \n \n New ?_shape=array option + tweaks to _shape , closes #245 \n \n \n Default is now ?_shape=arrays (renamed from lists ) \n \n \n New ?_shape=array returns an array of objects as the root object \n \n \n Changed ?_shape=object to return the object as the root \n \n \n Updated docs \n \n \n \n \n FTS tables now detected by inspect() , closes #240 \n \n \n New ?_size=XXX query string parameter for table view, closes #229 \n Also added documentation for all of the _special arguments. \n Plus deleted some duplicate logic implementing _group_count . \n \n \n If max_returned_rows==page_size , increment max_returned_rows - fixes #230 \n \n \n New hidden: True option for table metadata, closes #239 \n \n \n Hide idx_* tables if spatialite detected, closes #228 \n \n \n Added class=rows-and-columns to custom query results table \n \n \n Added CSS class rows-and-columns to main table \n \n \n label_column option in metadata.json - closes #234", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/237\", \"label\": \"#237\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/248\", \"label\": \"#248\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/249\", \"label\": \"#249\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/244\", \"label\": \"#244\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/242\", \"label\": \"#242\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/245\", \"label\": \"#245\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/240\", \"label\": \"#240\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/229\", \"label\": \"#229\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/230\", \"label\": \"#230\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/239\", \"label\": \"#239\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/228\", \"label\": \"#228\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/234\", \"label\": \"#234\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:write-api", "page": "changelog", "ref": "write-api", "title": "Write API", "content": "New API explorer at /-/api for trying out the API. ( #1871 ) \n \n \n /db/-/create API for Creating a table . ( #1882 ) \n \n \n /db/table/-/insert API for Inserting rows . ( #1851 ) \n \n \n /db/table/-/drop API for Dropping tables . ( #1874 ) \n \n \n /db/table/pk/-/update API for Updating a row . ( #1863 ) \n \n \n /db/table/pk/-/delete API for Deleting a row . ( #1864 )", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"1.0a0 (2022-11-29)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1871\", \"label\": \"#1871\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1882\", \"label\": \"#1882\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1851\", \"label\": \"#1851\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1874\", \"label\": \"#1874\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1863\", \"label\": \"#1863\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1864\", \"label\": \"#1864\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:v1-0-a12", "page": "changelog", "ref": "v1-0-a12", "title": "1.0a12 (2024-02-29)", "content": "New query_actions() plugin hook, similar to table_actions() and database_actions() . Can be used to add a menu of actions to the canned query or arbitrary SQL query page. ( #2283 ) \n \n \n New design for the button that opens the query, table and database actions menu. ( #2281 ) \n \n \n \"does not contain\" table filter for finding rows that do not contain a string. ( #2287 ) \n \n \n Fixed a bug in the makeColumnActions(columnDetails) JavaScript plugin mechanism where the column action menu was not fully reset in between each interaction. ( #2289 )", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2283\", \"label\": \"#2283\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2281\", \"label\": \"#2281\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2287\", \"label\": \"#2287\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2289\", \"label\": \"#2289\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:plugin-hooks", "page": "changelog", "ref": "plugin-hooks", "title": "Plugin hooks", "content": "New jinja2_environment_from_request(datasette, request, env) plugin hook, which can be used to customize the current Jinja environment based on the incoming request. This can be used to modify the template lookup path based on the incoming request hostname, among other things. ( #2225 ) \n \n \n New family of template slot plugin hooks : top_homepage , top_database , top_table , top_row , top_query , top_canned_query . Plugins can use these to provide additional HTML to be injected at the top of the corresponding pages. ( #1191 ) \n \n \n \n \n New track_event() mechanism for plugins to emit and receive events when certain events occur within Datasette. ( #2240 ) \n \n \n \n Plugins can register additional event classes using register_events(datasette) . \n \n \n They can then trigger those events with the datasette.track_event(event) internal method. \n \n \n Plugins can subscribe to notifications of events using the track_event(datasette, event) plugin hook. \n \n \n Datasette core now emits login , logout , create-token , create-table , drop-table , insert-rows , upsert-rows , update-row , delete-row events, documented here . \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n New internal function for plugin authors: await db.execute_isolated_fn(fn) , for creating a new SQLite connection, executing code and then closing that connection, all while preventing other code from writing to that particular database. This connection will not have the prepare_connection() plugin hook executed against it, allowing plugins to perform actions that might otherwise be blocked by existing connection configuration. ( #2218 )", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"1.0a8 (2024-02-07)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2225\", \"label\": \"#2225\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1191\", \"label\": \"#1191\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2240\", \"label\": \"#2240\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2218\", \"label\": \"#2218\"}]"} {"id": "changelog:id28", "page": "changelog", "ref": "id28", "title": "0.58 (2021-07-14)", "content": "New datasette --uds /tmp/datasette.sock option for binding Datasette to a Unix domain socket, see proxy documentation ( #1388 ) \n \n \n \"searchmode\": \"raw\" table metadata option for defaulting a table to executing SQLite full-text search syntax without first escaping it, see Advanced SQLite search queries . ( #1389 ) \n \n \n New plugin hook: get_metadata(datasette, key, database, table) , for returning custom metadata for an instance, database or table. Thanks, Brandon Roberts! ( #1384 ) \n \n \n New plugin hook: skip_csrf(datasette, scope) , for opting out of CSRF protection based on the incoming request. ( #1377 ) \n \n \n The menu_links() , table_actions() and database_actions() plugin hooks all gained a new optional request argument providing access to the current request. ( #1371 ) \n \n \n Major performance improvement for Datasette faceting. ( #1394 ) \n \n \n Improved documentation for Running Datasette behind a proxy to recommend using ProxyPreservehost On with Apache. ( #1387 ) \n \n \n POST requests to endpoints that do not support that HTTP verb now return a 405 error. \n \n \n db.path can now be provided as a pathlib.Path object, useful when writing unit tests for plugins. Thanks, Chris Amico. 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( #394 ) \n \n \n New metadata settings \"sort\" and \"sort_desc\" for setting the default sort order for a table. See Setting a default sort order . ( #702 ) \n \n \n Sort direction arrow now displays by default on the primary key. This means you only have to click once (not twice) to sort in reverse order. ( #677 ) \n \n \n New await Request(scope, receive).post_vars() method for accessing POST form variables. ( #700 ) \n \n \n Plugin hooks documentation now links to example uses of each plugin. 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( #1856 ) \n \n \n New max_signed_tokens_ttl setting for restricting the maximum allowed duration of a signed token. 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