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  • De-tangling Metadata before Datasette 1.0 · 1 ✖

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1690787394 https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2143#issuecomment-1690787394 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/2143 IC_kwDOBm6k_c5kx15C simonw 9599 2023-08-23T23:52:02Z 2023-08-23T23:52:02Z OWNER

This also makes it simple to separate out secrets.

datasette --config settings.yaml --config secrets.yaml --config db-docs.yaml --config db-fixtures.yaml

Having multiple configs that combine in that way is a really interesting direction.

To chime in from a poweruser perspective: I'm worried that this is an overengineering trap. Yes, the current solution is somewhat messy. But there are datasette-wide settings, there are database-scope settings, there are table-scope settings etc, but then there are database-scope metadata and table-scope metadata. Trying to cleanly separate "settings" from "configuration" is, I believe, an uphill fight.

I'm very keen on separating out the "metadata" - where metadata is the slimmest possible set of things, effectively the data license and the source and the column and table descriptions - from everything else, mainly because I want metadata to be able to travel with the data.

One idea that's been discussed before is having an optional mechanism for storing metadata in the SQLite database file itself - potentially in a _datasette_metadata table. That way you could distribute a DB file and anyone who opened it in Datasette would also see the correct metadata about it.

That's why I'm so keen on splitting out metadata from all of the other stuff - settings and plugin configuration and authentication rules.

So really it becomes "true metadata" v.s. "all of the other junk that's accumulated in metadata and settings.json".

 
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