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Yeah, every time I see something cool done with triggers, I remember that I need to start using triggers.

This could use a new plugin hook, too. I don't want to complicate your life too much, but for things like GIS, I'd want a way to turn regular JSON into SpatiaLite geometries or combine X/Y coordinates into point geometries and such. Happy to help however I can.

@eyeseast Maybe you could do this with triggers? Like you can insert JSON-friendly data into a "raw" table, and create a trigger that transforms that inserted data into the proper table

Here's an example:

```sql -- meant to be updated from a Datasette insert create table points_raw(longitude int, latitude int);

-- the target table with proper spatliate geometries create table points(point geometry);

CREATE TRIGGER insert_points_raw INSERT ON points_raw BEGIN insert into points(point) values (makepoint(new.longitude, new.latitude)) END; ```

You could then POST a new row to points_raw like this: POST /db/points_raw Authorization: Bearer xxx Content-Type: application/json { "row": { "longitude": 27.64356, "latitude": -47.29384 } }

Then SQLite with run the trigger and insert a new row in points with the correct geometry point. Downside is you'd have duplicated data with points_raw, but maybe it could be a TEMP table (or have a cron that deletes all rows from that table every so often?)

That's reasonable. Canned queries and custom endpoints are certainly going to give more room for specific needs.

This could use a new plugin hook, too. I don't want to complicate your life too much, but for things like GIS, I'd want a way to turn regular JSON into SpatiaLite geometries or combine X/Y coordinates into point geometries and such. Happy to help however I can.