issues

In several applications I've been experimenting with alternate formatting of datasette query results. Lately I've found that CSS grids work very well and seem quite general for formatting rows. In CSS I use grid templates to define the layout of each record and the regions for each field, hiding the fields I don't want. It's pretty flexible and looks good. It's also a great basis for highly responsive layout.

I initially thought I'd only use this feature for record detail views, but now I use it for index views as well.

However, there are some limitations: * With the existing table templates, it seems that you can change the display property on the enclosing table, tbody, and tr to make them be grid-like, but that seems hacky (convert table and tbody to be display: block and tr to be display: grid). * More significantly, it's very nice to have the column name available when rendering each record to display headers/field labels. The existing templates don't do that, so a custom _table template is necessary. * I don't know if any plugins are sensitive to whether data is rendered as a table or not since I'm not completely clear how plugins get their data. * Regardless, you need custom CSS to take full advantage of grids. I don't have a proposal on how to integrate them more deeply.

It would be helpful to at least have an official example or test that used a grid layout for records to make sure nothing in datasette breaks with it.

I just upgraded from 0.49 to 0.50.1 and found that the links on column headers are broken.

If I inspect the source, they have a leading "//" (without host or port) rather than including base_url like other links on the page do. The links in the "gears" menu for each column do work.

I don't have custom templates for my project.

When JSON fields are rendered in a jinja2 template, it is handy to be able to manipulate them as data (e.g., iterate over an array of values).

Ansible has a "from_json" function, which just called json.loads. It's a trivial as a datasette plugin, but it seems generally useful. Does it makes sense to add it directly into the app?

Faceted search uses JSON array elements as facets rather than the arrays. However, if a search is "Apply"ed (using the Apply button), the array itself rather than its elements used.

To reproduce: https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_sort=pk&_facet=created&_facet=tags&_facet_array=tags

Press "Apply", which might be done when removing a filter. Notice that the "tags" facet values are now arrays, not array elements. It appears the "&_facet_array=tags" element of the query string is dropped.

Hey there,

Have you considered providing apsw support as an alternative to stock python sqlite3? I use apsw because it keeps up with sqlite3 and is straightforward to bring in extensions like FTS5. FTS really accelerates the kind of searching often done by web clients.

I may be able to help (it shouldn't be much code), but there are a couple of stylistic questions that come up when supporting an optional package. Also, apsw is tricky in that it doesn't have a pypi package (author says limitations in providing options to setup.py).