html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,performed_via_github_app https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1024#issuecomment-709589297,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1024,709589297,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTU4OTI5Nw==,9599,2020-10-15T21:04:31Z,2020-10-15T21:04:31Z,OWNER,I think nginx or Apache would be the best tools for this. I'm inclined to try with nginx first since I know it better.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722674708, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1024#issuecomment-709590337,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1024,709590337,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTU5MDMzNw==,9599,2020-10-15T21:06:24Z,2020-10-15T21:07:19Z,OWNER,"From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32549684/nginx-proxy-and-remove-proxy-pass-prefix/32550251 it looks like the config I should use is: ``` server { listen 80; server_name example.com; location /datasette/ { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; proxy_read_timeout 90; } } ```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722674708, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1024#issuecomment-709590941,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1024,709590941,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTU5MDk0MQ==,9599,2020-10-15T21:07:47Z,2020-10-15T21:07:47Z,OWNER,On macOS I ran `brew install nginx`. I'm going to try running it on port 8000 so I don't have to run it as root.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722674708, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1024#issuecomment-709595960,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1024,709595960,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTU5NTk2MA==,9599,2020-10-15T21:18:14Z,2020-10-15T21:18:14Z,OWNER,Typing `nginx` starts it running as a daemon listening on port `http-alt` aka 8080. It uses the config file from ` /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf`.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722674708, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1024#issuecomment-709597589,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1024,709597589,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTU5NzU4OQ==,9599,2020-10-15T21:21:53Z,2020-10-15T21:23:25Z,OWNER,"Here's a recipe for running nginx against a custom config file: https://gist.github.com/simonw/35f0ebf9c1d6df158759 ``` daemon off; events { worker_connections 1024; } http { access_log /dev/stdout; error_log /dev/stderr; types { text/html html htm shtml; text/css css; image/gif gif; image/jpeg jpeg jpg; application/javascript js; } server { listen 8002; index index.html; root app; } } ``` ``` nginx -p `pwd` -c `pwd`/nginx.conf ``` ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722674708, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1024#issuecomment-709598324,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1024,709598324,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTU5ODMyNA==,9599,2020-10-15T21:23:33Z,2020-10-15T21:26:55Z,OWNER,"Combining these two examples, here's the config file I am going to use for this. I'll save this as `nginx.conf`: ``` daemon off; events { worker_connections 1024; } http { server { listen 8000; location /datasette { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; } } } ``` Then start the server with: ``` nginx -p `pwd` -c `pwd`/nginx.conf ``` And start Datasette like this: ``` datasette fixtures.db --config base_url:/datasette/ ```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722674708, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1024#issuecomment-709600335,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1024,709600335,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTYwMDMzNQ==,9599,2020-10-15T21:28:02Z,2020-10-15T22:25:43Z,OWNER,"This is working OK so far: I'll try crawling it with `wget -r` to see if I get any errors.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722674708, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1024#issuecomment-709622973,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1024,709622973,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTYyMjk3Mw==,9599,2020-10-15T22:27:31Z,2020-10-15T22:27:31Z,OWNER,"Here's how I tested it: ``` time wget -r 'http://localhost:8000/datasette/' 2>&1 | grep -i -C 5 ""failed\|error"" > /tmp/errors.txt ``` This wrote out any errors (plus context) to the `errors.txt` log - and reported that the full crawl took 33s. Here's what I got in `errors.txt`: ``` 0K . 71.6M=0s 2020-10-15 15:23:09 (71.6 MB/s) - ‘localhost:8000/datasette/index.html’ saved [1276] Loading robots.txt; please ignore errors. --2020-10-15 15:23:09-- http://localhost:8000/robots.txt Reusing existing connection to localhost:8000. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found -- --2020-10-15 15:23:09-- http://localhost:8000/robots.txt Reusing existing connection to localhost:8000. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2020-10-15 15:23:09 ERROR 404: Not Found. --2020-10-15 15:23:09-- http://localhost:8000/datasette/-/static/app.css?b576be Reusing existing connection to localhost:8000. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 8563 (8.4K) [text/css] -- -- 2020-10-15 15:23:13 (7.90 MB/s) - ‘localhost:8000/datasette/fixtures/primary_key_multiple_columns_explicit_label.json?_shape=object’ saved [58] --2020-10-15 15:23:13-- http://localhost:8000/-/static-plugins/datasette_cluster_map/datasette-cluster-map.js Reusing existing connection to localhost:8000. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2020-10-15 15:23:13 ERROR 404: Not Found. --2020-10-15 15:23:13-- http://localhost:8000/datasette/fixtures?sql=select+pk%2C+name%2C+address%2C+latitude%2C+longitude+from+roadside_attractions+order+by+pk+limit+101 Reusing existing connection to localhost:8000. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] -- -- 2020-10-15 15:23:13 (84.3 MB/s) - ‘localhost:8000/datasette/fixtures/roadside_attractions.json?_shape=object’ saved [619] --2020-10-15 15:23:13-- http://localhost:8000/datasette/fixtures/%5C%22https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright%5C%22 Reusing existing connection to localhost:8000. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2020-10-15 15:23:13 ERROR 404: Not Found. --2020-10-15 15:23:13-- http://localhost:8000/datasette/fixtures?sql=select+pk%2C+text1%2C+text2%2C+%5Bname+with+.+and+spaces%5D+from+searchable+order+by+pk+limit+101 Reusing existing connection to localhost:8000. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] -- -- 2020-10-15 15:23:14 (28.6 MB/s) - ‘localhost:8000/datasette/fixtures/searchable_view_configured_by_metadata.json?_shape=array&_nl=on’ saved [180] --2020-10-15 15:23:14-- http://localhost:8000/ Reusing existing connection to localhost:8000. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2020-10-15 15:23:14 ERROR 404: Not Found. --2020-10-15 15:23:14-- http://localhost:8000/datasette/fixtures?sql=select+pk1%2C+pk2%2C+pk3%2C+content+from+compound_three_primary_keys+order+by+pk1%2C+pk2%2C+pk3+limit+101&_hide_sql=1 Reusing existing connection to localhost:8000. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] -- -- 2020-10-15 15:23:21 (64.1 MB/s) - ‘localhost:8000/datasette/fixtures.csv?sql=select+pk,+name,+address,+latitude,+longitude+from+roadside_attractions+order+by+pk+limit+101&_size=max’ saved [403] --2020-10-15 15:23:21-- http://localhost:8000/datasette/%5C%22https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright%5C%22 Reusing existing connection to localhost:8000. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2020-10-15 15:23:21 ERROR 404: Not Found. --2020-10-15 15:23:21-- http://localhost:8000/datasette/fixtures?sql=select+pk%2C+name%2C+address%2C+latitude%2C+longitude+from+roadside_attractions+order+by+pk+desc+limit+101 Reusing existing connection to localhost:8000. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] ```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722674708, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1024#issuecomment-709625063,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1024,709625063,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTYyNTA2Mw==,9599,2020-10-15T22:33:22Z,2020-10-15T22:33:22Z,OWNER,"Of those errors... `http://localhost:8000/robots.txt` 404 is fine. `http://localhost:8000/datasette/%5C%22https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright%5C%22` looks to me like a `wget` parsing bug where it got confused by this JavaScript: ``` window.DATASETTE_CLUSTER_MAP_TILE_LAYER_OPTIONS = {""maxZoom"": 19, ""detectRetina"": true, ""attribution"": ""© OpenStreetMap contributors""}; ``` `http://localhost:8000/-/static-plugins/datasette_cluster_map/datasette-cluster-map.js` is a real bug. It's a bug in `datasette-cluster-map` but also requires me to solve #988 - mechanism for plugins to construct URLs that obey `base_url`. I'm not sure why I'm getting a hit to `http://localhost:8000/` since I wouldn't expect to link to `/` anywhere.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722674708, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1025#issuecomment-709629920,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1025,709629920,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTYyOTkyMA==,9599,2020-10-15T22:48:20Z,2020-10-15T22:48:20Z,OWNER,"Also these: ``` datasette % git grep '""/' -- '*.html' ':(exclude)*/patterns.html' datasette/templates/allow_debug.html:
datasette/templates/base.html: datasette/templates/error.html: home datasette/templates/logout.html: datasette/templates/messages_debug.html: datasette/templates/query.html: home / ```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722724086, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1025#issuecomment-709632136,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1025,709632136,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTYzMjEzNg==,9599,2020-10-15T22:55:44Z,2020-10-15T22:55:44Z,OWNER,"It looks like there are also some generated redirect responses that don't take `base_url` into account: ``` datasette % git grep '""/' -- '*.py' ':(exclude)*test_*.py' ':(exclude)datasette/app.py' datasette/_version.py: for i in cfg.versionfile_source.split(""/""): datasette/utils/asgi.py: path=""/"", datasette/views/base.py: should_redirect = ""/{}-{}"".format(name, expected) datasette/views/base.py: should_redirect += ""/"" + urllib.parse.quote_plus(kwargs[""table""]) datasette/views/base.py: should_redirect += ""/"" + kwargs[""pk_path""] datasette/views/special.py: response = Response.redirect(""/"") datasette/views/special.py: return Response.redirect(""/"") datasette/views/special.py: response = Response.redirect(""/"") datasette/views/special.py: return Response.redirect(""/"") ```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722724086, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1025#issuecomment-709632314,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1025,709632314,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTYzMjMxNA==,9599,2020-10-15T22:56:25Z,2020-10-15T22:56:34Z,OWNER,"That `utils/asgi.py` line is the default path for setting cookies. That should likely take `base_url` into account too: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/4f7c0ebd85ccd8c1853d7aa0147628f7c1b749cc/datasette/utils/asgi.py#L331-L342","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722724086, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1026#issuecomment-709636372,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1026,709636372,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTYzNjM3Mg==,9599,2020-10-15T23:09:34Z,2020-10-15T23:09:34Z,OWNER,"I'm inclined to say that internal requests should ignore `base_url` - since that seems like the right thing for plugins that need to access default Datasette APIs. The one catch here is plugins that might want to proxy the current incoming URL for some reason - where that incoming `request.path` could include the `base_url`. Actually those should be fine - because it will have been stripped off earlier: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/4f7c0ebd85ccd8c1853d7aa0147628f7c1b749cc/datasette/app.py#L963-L968","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722738988, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1027#issuecomment-709646865,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1027,709646865,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTY0Njg2NQ==,9599,2020-10-15T23:47:08Z,2020-10-15T23:47:08Z,OWNER,It should cover both nginx and Apache. nginx config is here: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1024#issuecomment-709598324,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722758132, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1027#issuecomment-709647525,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1027,709647525,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTY0NzUyNQ==,9599,2020-10-15T23:49:51Z,2020-10-15T23:51:39Z,OWNER,"I'll install Apache on macOS to figure this out using https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/httpd `brew install httpd` output this at the end: ``` ==> httpd DocumentRoot is /usr/local/var/www. The default ports have been set in /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf to 8080 and in /usr/local/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-ssl.conf to 8443 so that httpd can run without sudo. To have launchd start httpd now and restart at login: brew services start httpd Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run: apachectl start ```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",722758132, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/690#issuecomment-709497595,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/690,709497595,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTQ5NzU5NQ==,9599,2020-10-15T18:04:35Z,2020-10-15T18:12:15Z,OWNER,"For the table actions: attaching it to a cog icon next to the table name could make sense. This is the column action icon at twice the size, color `#666`.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",573755726, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/690#issuecomment-709498425,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/690,709498425,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTQ5ODQyNQ==,9599,2020-10-15T18:06:08Z,2020-10-15T18:06:08Z,OWNER,And for instance-level actions (linking to `datasette-import-csv` for example) an actions menu anchored against a burger-bar menu icon in the navigation bar.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",573755726, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/690#issuecomment-709499944,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/690,709499944,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTQ5OTk0NA==,9599,2020-10-15T18:09:06Z,2020-10-15T18:09:06Z,OWNER,"I'm going to dedicate this issue to thinking about action menus. #981 added column action menus, others to build could be: - Table action menus (for things like configure FTS, edit schema) - Database action menus (import CSV file into this table) - Instance action menus (manage users, import CSV into this instance) - Column action menus (already there, plugins could include extract this column) - Row action menus? ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",573755726, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/690#issuecomment-709500715,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/690,709500715,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTUwMDcxNQ==,9599,2020-10-15T18:10:32Z,2020-10-15T18:10:32Z,OWNER,"Row action menus are a question mark for me. Adding them to the table page itself could get really noisy - though maybe they're a vertical ... menu at the end of the row? They could also go on the `row.html` template, though that page is rarely used at the moment. I'm going to skip row actions for the moment and concentrate on the other four, which I know I have use-cases for.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",573755726, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/838#issuecomment-709588425,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/838,709588425,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTU4ODQyNQ==,9599,2020-10-15T21:02:37Z,2020-10-15T21:02:37Z,OWNER,Tracking ticket: #1023,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",637395097, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/865#issuecomment-709588373,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/865,709588373,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTU4ODM3Mw==,9599,2020-10-15T21:02:31Z,2020-10-15T21:02:31Z,OWNER,Tracking ticket: #1023,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",644582921, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/865#issuecomment-709626786,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/865,709626786,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTYyNjc4Ng==,9599,2020-10-15T22:38:38Z,2020-10-15T22:38:38Z,OWNER,"I managed to recreate proxying using `nginx` in #1024 - but I could not replicate this bug. I did NOT use `ProxyPassReverse` though. I think that may be what caused the problem. I'll add a section to the documentation about this shortly.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",644582921, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/865#issuecomment-709633080,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/865,709633080,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTYzMzA4MA==,9599,2020-10-15T22:58:51Z,2020-10-15T22:58:51Z,OWNER,"It looks like there are places where Datasette might return a redirect that doesn't take `base_url` into account - I'm planning on fixing those here, after which I think `ProxyPassReverse` should no longer be necessary. https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1025#issuecomment-709632136","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 1, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",644582921, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/878#issuecomment-709502889,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/878,709502889,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTUwMjg4OQ==,9599,2020-10-15T18:14:34Z,2020-10-15T18:14:34Z,OWNER,"The `BaseView` class does this for Datasette internals at the moment, but I'm not convinced it works as well as it could. I'd like to turn this into a class that is documented and available to plugins as well.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",648435885, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/878#issuecomment-709503359,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/878,709503359,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTUwMzM1OQ==,9599,2020-10-15T18:15:28Z,2020-10-15T18:15:28Z,OWNER,I think this is blocking #619,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",648435885, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/894#issuecomment-709505147,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/894,709505147,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTUwNTE0Nw==,9599,2020-10-15T18:18:45Z,2020-10-15T18:50:50Z,OWNER,"This needs querystring parameter design. Some options: * `?_sort_clause=cast(mycol+as+integer)` and `?_sort_clause_desc=cast(mycol+as+integer)` - allowing any expression. This would need to be disabled if arbitrary SQL was turned off, similar to the restrictions on `?_where=`. * `?_sort_numeric=mycol` and `?_sort_numeric_desc=mycol` - this would cast to `real` which would work on integer values as well. It could be allowed even when arbitrary SQL was disabled.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",657572753, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/894#issuecomment-709505608,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/894,709505608,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTUwNTYwOA==,9599,2020-10-15T18:19:35Z,2020-10-15T18:19:35Z,OWNER,"I could even let plugins define new sort types. Imagine a plugin that enables this: `?_sort_date_desc=mycol` - where it knows how to handle specific date formats, or even uses `dateutil.parser.parse`.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",657572753, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/894#issuecomment-709505953,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/894,709505953,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTUwNTk1Mw==,9599,2020-10-15T18:20:13Z,2020-10-15T18:20:13Z,OWNER,Sorting by date when the column has a junk date format in it is such a column need it should maybe ship in Datasette by default - though I've been trying to avoid adding heavy dependencies like `dateutil` if I can get away with it.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",657572753, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/894#issuecomment-709509635,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/894,709509635,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTUwOTYzNQ==,9599,2020-10-15T18:24:57Z,2020-10-15T18:24:57Z,OWNER,"This does feel like a weird plugin hook just because there aren't really THAT many different use-cases that plugins could solve. The ones I can think of are: - Sort numeric - Sort by parsed date - Sort by FTS rank Could this work if I just allow `_sort_clause=`? One possible solution for the no-arbitrary-SQL case: users can define sort orders in `metadata.json/yml`. So if you want to enable sort-by-distance without enabling arbitrary SQL you could add something like this: ```yaml databases: mydb: tables: museums: sort_clause: bm25(fts) ```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",657572753, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/894#issuecomment-709510422,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/894,709510422,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTUxMDQyMg==,9599,2020-10-15T18:26:25Z,2020-10-15T18:26:25Z,OWNER,"There's something interesting about figuring out which sort options should be offered in the column actions menu. Two options: - Try to detect if a text column is all-integers or all-floats, either by scanning the entire table (if it's small enough) or by scanning the first X rows, where X might be the size of the first page or maybe the first 1,000 or similar. - Could also let users define this in `metadata.yml` for the table.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",657572753, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/894#issuecomment-709511399,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/894,709511399,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTUxMTM5OQ==,9599,2020-10-15T18:28:09Z,2020-10-15T18:28:09Z,OWNER,"The simplest solution would be for Python code to scan all of the visible values on the current page and show the column action for ""sort by this numeric"" based purely on that. I already do that in the JavaScript for ""are there any blank values in the first page?"" here: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/4f7c0ebd85ccd8c1853d7aa0147628f7c1b749cc/datasette/static/table.js#L106-L118 ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",657572753, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/894#issuecomment-709513483,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/894,709513483,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTUxMzQ4Mw==,9599,2020-10-15T18:31:56Z,2020-10-15T18:31:56Z,OWNER,"I think the first version of this feature involves implementing `?_sort_numeric=col` and `?_sort_numeric_desc=col` plus the JavaScript to detect if those values should be shown in the column actions menu. One question: how to reflect that this is happening in the current sort UI. This menu here for example: And this interface: how should it indicate that a text is currently sorted numerically v.s. sorted alphabetically, and allow the user to switch from one to the other? ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",657572753, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/894#issuecomment-709524123,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/894,709524123,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTUyNDEyMw==,9599,2020-10-15T18:50:25Z,2020-10-15T18:50:25Z,OWNER,"For the ""Sort by X"" select menu case... I could automatically expand that menu to contain extra options for ""Sort numerically by X"" for each TEXT column in the table. That's a pretty good option. For the action cog menu, I can add the extra options to the cog menu - and rely on the fact that the title of the page will say ""Sorted numerically by colname descending"".","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",657572753, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/894#issuecomment-709525082,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/894,709525082,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTUyNTA4Mg==,9599,2020-10-15T18:51:59Z,2020-10-15T18:51:59Z,OWNER,This is enough of a design to build a working prototype.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",657572753, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/894#issuecomment-709531343,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/894,709531343,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcwOTUzMTM0Mw==,9599,2020-10-15T19:03:12Z,2020-10-15T19:03:12Z,OWNER,"The Sort by `