id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,pull_request,body,repo,type,active_lock_reason,performed_via_github_app,reactions,draft,state_reason 1978023780,I_kwDOBm6k_c515j9k,2205,request.post_vars() method obliterates form keys with multiple values,9599,open,0,,8755003,3,2023-11-05T23:25:08Z,2023-11-06T04:10:34Z,,OWNER,,"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/452a587e236ef642cbc6ae345b58767ea8420cb5/datasette/utils/asgi.py#L137-L139 In GET requests you can do `?foo=1&foo=2` - you can do the same in POST requests, but the `dict()` call here eliminates those duplicates. You can't even try calling `post_body()` and implement your own custom parsing because of: - #2204",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/2205/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1879209560,I_kwDOCGYnMM5wAnZY,589,Mechanism for de-registering registered SQL functions,9599,open,0,,,3,2023-09-03T19:32:39Z,2023-09-03T19:36:34Z,,OWNER,,I used a custom SQL function in a migration script and then realized that it should be de-registered before the end of the script to avoid leaking into the calling code.,140912432,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/589/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1856075668,I_kwDOCGYnMM5uoXeU,586,.transform() fails to drop column if table is part of a view,9599,open,0,,,3,2023-08-18T05:25:22Z,2023-08-18T06:13:47Z,,OWNER,,"I got this error trying to drop a column from a table that was part of a SQL view: > error in view plugins: no such table: main.pypi_releases Upon further investigation I found that this pattern seemed to fix it: ```python def transform_the_table(conn): # Run this in a transaction: with conn: # We have to read all the views first, because we need to drop and recreate them db = sqlite_utils.Database(conn) views = {v.name: v.schema for v in db.views if table.lower() in v.schema.lower()} for view in views.keys(): db[view].drop() db[table].transform( types=types, rename=rename, drop=drop, column_order=[p[0] for p in order_pairs], ) # Now recreate the views for name, schema in views.items(): db.create_view(name, schema) ``` So grab a copy of any view that might reference this table, start a transaction, drop those views, run the transform, recreate the views again. > I wonder if this should become an option in `sqlite-utils`? Maybe a `recreate_views=True` argument for `table.tranform(...)`? Should it be opt-in or opt-out? _Originally posted by @simonw in https://github.com/simonw/datasette-edit-schema/issues/35#issuecomment-1683370548_ ",140912432,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/586/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1838469176,I_kwDOBm6k_c5tlNA4,2127,Context base class to support documenting the context,9599,open,0,,3268330,3,2023-08-07T00:01:02Z,2023-08-10T01:30:25Z,,OWNER,,"This idea first came up here: - https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2112#issuecomment-1652751140 If `datasette.render_template(...)` takes an optional `Context` subclass as an alternative to a context dictionary, I could then use dataclasses to define the context made available to specific templates - which then gives me something I can use to help document what they are. Also refs: - https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1510",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/2127/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1822939274,I_kwDOBm6k_c5sp9iK,2113,Implement and document extras for the new query view page,9599,open,0,,8755003,3,2023-07-26T18:24:01Z,2023-08-09T17:35:22Z,,OWNER,,- #2109 ,107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/2113/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1054244712,I_kwDOBm6k_c4-1n9o,1510,Datasette 1.0 documented template context (maybe via API docs),9599,open,0,,3268330,3,2021-11-15T23:23:58Z,2023-06-28T02:05:21Z,,OWNER,,Documented context plus protective unit tests. Goal is that custom templates built for 1.x will not break without a 2.x release.,107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1510/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1618130434,I_kwDOJHON9s5gcrYC,11,Implement a SQL view to make it easier to query files in a nested folder,9599,open,0,,,3,2023-03-09T23:19:28Z,2023-03-09T23:24:01Z,,MEMBER,,"Working with nested data in SQL is tricky, can I make it easier with a view or canned query?",611552758,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/dogsheep/apple-notes-to-sqlite/issues/11/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1525815985,I_kwDOBm6k_c5a8hqx,1983,Make CustomJSONEncoder a documented public API,9599,open,0,,,3,2023-01-09T15:27:05Z,2023-01-09T15:35:58Z,,OWNER,,It's used by `datasette-geojson` here: https://github.com/eyeseast/datasette-geojson/commit/902bf135a5a33a0dc8264673d00a59a67cb05152,107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1983/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1082584499,I_kwDOBm6k_c5Ahu2z,1558,Redesign `facet_results` JSON structure prior to Datasette 1.0,9599,open,0,,3268330,3,2021-12-16T19:45:10Z,2023-01-09T15:31:17Z,,OWNER,,"> Decision: as an initial fix I'm going to de-duplicate those keys by using `tags__array` etc - with a `_2` on the end if that key is already used. > > I'll open a separate issue to redesign this better for Datasette 1.0. _Originally posted by @simonw in https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/625#issuecomment-996130862_",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1558/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1175690070,I_kwDOBm6k_c5GE5tW,1676,"Reconsider ensure_permissions() logic, can it be less confusing?",9599,open,0,,3268330,3,2022-03-21T17:14:57Z,2022-12-02T01:23:40Z,,OWNER,,"> Updated documentation: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/e627510b760198ccedba9e5af47a771e847785c9/docs/internals.rst#await-ensure_permissionsactor-permissions > >> This method allows multiple permissions to be checked at onced. It raises a `datasette.Forbidden` exception if any of the checks are denied before one of them is explicitly granted. >> >> This is useful when you need to check multiple permissions at once. For example, an actor should be able to view a table if either one of the following checks returns `True` or not a single one of them returns `False`: > > That's pretty hard to understand! I'm going to open a separate issue to reconsider if this is a useful enough abstraction given how confusing it is. _Originally posted by @simonw in https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1675#issuecomment-1074177827_",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1676/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1386562662,I_kwDOCGYnMM5SpURm,493,Tiny typographical error in install/uninstall docs,9599,open,0,,,3,2022-09-26T19:00:42Z,2022-10-25T21:31:15Z,,OWNER,,"Added in: - #483 I don't know how to fix this in Sphinx: I'm getting this: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/latest/cli.html#cli-install > The [insert –convert](https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/latest/cli.html#cli-insert-convert) and [query –functions](https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/latest/cli.html#cli-query-functions) options But I want it to display `insert --convert` and not `insert –convert` there. Here's the code: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/blob/85247038f70d7eb2f3e272cfeaa4c44459cafba8/docs/cli.rst#L2125",140912432,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/493/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1410305897,I_kwDOBm6k_c5UD49p,1845,Reconsider the Datasette first-run experience,9599,open,0,,,3,2022-10-15T22:21:31Z,2022-10-16T08:54:53Z,,OWNER,,"Had a really interesting conversation today about how hard it is to get from ""I installed Datasette"" to ""I've done something useful with it"": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33216789#33218590 Spending some time focusing on that first-run experience feels very worthwhile.",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1845/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1386917344,PR_kwDOBm6k_c4_prjN,1823,Keyword-only arguments for a bunch of internal methods,9599,open,0,,,3,2022-09-27T00:44:59Z,2022-10-05T04:37:54Z,,OWNER,simonw/datasette/pulls/1823,"Refs #1822 ---- :books: Documentation preview :books:: https://datasette--1823.org.readthedocs.build/en/1823/ ",107914493,pull,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1823/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",0, 1149661489,I_kwDOCGYnMM5EhnEx,409,`with db:` for transactions,9599,open,0,,,3,2022-02-24T19:22:06Z,2022-10-01T03:42:50Z,,OWNER,,This can be a documented wrapper around `with db.conn:`.,140912432,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/409/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1386854246,I_kwDOBm6k_c5Sqbdm,1822,Switch to keyword-only arguments for a bunch of internal methods,9599,open,0,,3268330,3,2022-09-26T23:20:38Z,2022-09-27T00:44:04Z,,OWNER,,"This is a good idea, and one that needs to happen before Datasette 1.0: > While you are adding features, would you be future-proofing your APIs if you switched over some arguments over to keyword-only arguments or would that be too disruptive? > > Thinking out loud: > > ``` > async def render_template( > self, templates, *, context=None, plugin_context=None, request=None, view_name=None > ): > ``` _Originally posted by @jefftriplett in https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1817#issuecomment-1256781274_ ",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1822/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 838245338,MDU6SXNzdWU4MzgyNDUzMzg=,1272,Unit tests for the Dockerfile,9599,open,0,,,3,2021-03-23T01:36:29Z,2022-07-29T10:22:59Z,,OWNER,,"Working on the Dockerfile in #1249 made me wish for automated tests - to confirm that it boots up correctly, can run SpatiaLite and doesn't have weird bugs like the `/db` page hanging. These could run in CI too, but maybe only if the `Dockerfile` is updated.",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1272/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1054243511,I_kwDOBm6k_c4-1nq3,1509,Datasette 1.0 JSON API (and documentation),9599,open,0,,3268330,3,2021-11-15T23:22:45Z,2022-03-15T20:38:56Z,,OWNER,,"The new JSON API in a stable, documented form.",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1509/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1122451096,PR_kwDOBm6k_c4x_mXy,1626,Try test suite against macOS and Windows,9599,open,0,,,3,2022-02-02T22:26:51Z,2022-02-03T01:22:44Z,,OWNER,simonw/datasette/pulls/1626,Refs #1625,107914493,pull,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1626/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",0, 534629631,MDU6SXNzdWU1MzQ2Mjk2MzE=,650,Add a glossary to the documentation,9599,open,0,,,3,2019-12-09T00:23:45Z,2022-01-13T22:04:56Z,,OWNER,,"Call it `glossary.rst` - it can use a definition list something like this: ```rst .. _glossary: Glossary ======== Term A definition of the term. Another term Another definition. ```",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/650/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 793002853,MDExOlB1bGxSZXF1ZXN0NTYwNzYwMTQ1,1204,WIP: Plugin includes,9599,open,0,,,3,2021-01-25T03:59:06Z,2021-12-17T07:10:49Z,,OWNER,simonw/datasette/pulls/1204,"Refs #1191 Next steps: - [ ] Get comfortable that this pattern is the right way to go - [ ] Implement it for all of the other pages, not just the table page - [ ] Add a new set of plugin tests that exercise ALL of these new hook locations - [ ] Document, then ship",107914493,pull,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1204/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1, 636511683,MDU6SXNzdWU2MzY1MTE2ODM=,830,Redesign register_facet_classes plugin hook,9599,open,0,,3268330,3,2020-06-10T20:03:27Z,2021-12-16T19:58:22Z,,OWNER,,"Nothing uses this plugin hook yet, so the design is not yet proven. I'm going to build a real plugin against it and use that process to inform any design changes that may need to be made. I'll add a warning about this to the documentation.",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/830/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1071531082,I_kwDOCGYnMM4_3kRK,349,A way of creating indexes on newly created tables,9599,open,0,,,3,2021-12-05T18:56:12Z,2021-12-07T01:04:37Z,,OWNER,,"I'm writing code for https://github.com/simonw/git-history/issues/33 that creates a table inside a loop: ```python item_pk = db[item_table].lookup( {""_item_id"": item_id}, item_to_insert, column_order=(""_id"", ""_item_id""), pk=""_id"", ) ``` I need to look things up by `_item_id` on this table, which means I need an index on that column (the table can get very big). But there's no mechanism in SQLite utils to detect if the table was created for the first time and add an index to it. And I don't want to run `CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS` every time through the loop. This should work like the `foreign_keys=` mechanism. ",140912432,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/349/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1072435124,I_kwDOCGYnMM4_7A-0,350,Optional caching mechanism for table.lookup(),9599,open,0,,,3,2021-12-06T17:54:25Z,2021-12-06T17:56:57Z,,OWNER,,"Inspired by work on `git-history` where I used this pattern: ```python column_name_to_id = {} def column_id(column): if column not in column_name_to_id: id = db[""columns""].lookup( {""namespace"": namespace_id, ""name"": column}, foreign_keys=((""namespace"", ""namespaces"", ""id""),), ) column_name_to_id[column] = id return column_name_to_id[column] ``` If you're going to be doing a large number of `table.lookup(...)` calls and you know that no other script will be modifying the database at the same time you can presumably get a big speedup using a Python in-memory cache - maybe even a LRU one to avoid memory bloat.",140912432,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/350/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 952189173,MDU6SXNzdWU5NTIxODkxNzM=,3,Use HN algolia endpoint to retrieve trees,9599,open,0,,,3,2021-07-25T03:35:27Z,2021-07-25T18:41:17Z,,MEMBER,,"The `trees` command currently has to make a request for every single comment. Algolia have an endpoint that bundles the entire thread together into a single request. `https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/ID` Here's an example that loads quickly, with about 50 comments: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/27941108 It doesn't appear to use pagination at all - if a thread is big then the response is big. I ran this search to find some stories with more than 1000 comments: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=story&numericFilters=num_comments%3E=1000 Here's one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967 with 4759 comments. Hitting the API takes 41s and returns 3.7 MB of JSON! ``` wget 'https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/25015967' 0.03s user 0.04s system 0% cpu 41.368 total /tmp % ls -lah 25015967 -rw-r--r-- 1 simon wheel 3.7M Jul 24 20:31 25015967 ```",248903544,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/dogsheep/hacker-news-to-sqlite/issues/3/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 903902495,MDU6SXNzdWU5MDM5MDI0OTU=,1342,Improve `path_with_replaced_args()` and friends and document them,9599,open,0,,,3,2021-05-27T15:18:28Z,2021-05-27T15:23:02Z,,OWNER,,"> In order to cleanly implement this I need to expose the `path_with_replaced_args` utility function to Datasette's template engine. This is the first time this will become an exposed (and hence should-by-documented) API and I don't like its shape much. _Originally posted by @simonw in https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1337#issuecomment-849721280_",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1342/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 642296989,MDU6SXNzdWU2NDIyOTY5ODk=,856,Consider pagination of canned queries,9599,open,0,,,3,2020-06-20T03:15:59Z,2021-05-21T14:22:41Z,,OWNER,,The new `canned_queries()` plugin hook from #852 combined with plugins like https://github.com/simonw/datasette-saved-queries could mean that some installations end up with hundreds or even thousands of canned queries. I should consider pagination or some other way of ensuring that this doesn't cause performance problems for Datasette.,107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/856/reactions"", ""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 741862364,MDU6SXNzdWU3NDE4NjIzNjQ=,1090,Custom widgets for canned query forms,9599,open,0,,,3,2020-11-12T19:21:07Z,2021-03-27T16:25:25Z,,OWNER,,"This is an idea that was cut from the first version of writable canned queries: > I really want the option to use a `