CKAN Developer Hangouts

CKAN developer hangouts are currently happening on Thursdays at around 10:15 GMT. They're voluntary Skype calls for devs to talk about dev stuff. This wiki page is a place to list things we want to talk about.

Next Hangout

• Validation and conversion of data dicts. What is the right way to do it? When and where should it be done? A consistent approach is needed. See the discussion on #622. Also see wardi's docs

  • Related, it really feels like we need much better documentation of validation, the schemas, the validators, the converters, what you can do with it and how. We get a lot of questions from very confused users trying to implement custom schemas in their I*Form plugins and a lot of the time I don't know the answers.

• The API is broken with partial updates, eg. when you do a package_update and only supply some of the package's fields, some of the unsupplied fields will be left alone while others will be deleted. What should the behaviour with partial updates should be: delete unsupplied fields or not?