html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,performed_via_github_app https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073043350,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073043350,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9VeW,9599,2022-03-19T16:54:26Z,2022-03-19T16:54:26Z,OWNER,"The `Database` class already has a `path` property but it means something else - it's the path to the `.db` file on disk: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/61419388c134001118aaf7dfb913562d467d7913/datasette/database.py#L29-L50 So need a different name for the path-that-is-used-in-the-URL.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073043433,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073043433,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9Vfp,9599,2022-03-19T16:54:55Z,2022-03-19T20:01:19Z,OWNER,"Options: - `route_path` - `url_path` - `route` I like `route_path`, or maybe `route`.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073043713,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073043713,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9VkB,9599,2022-03-19T16:56:19Z,2022-03-19T16:56:19Z,OWNER,"Worth noting that the `name` right now is picked automatically to avoid conflicts: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/61419388c134001118aaf7dfb913562d467d7913/datasette/app.py#L397-L413","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073073547,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073073547,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9c2L,9599,2022-03-19T20:06:07Z,2022-03-19T20:06:07Z,OWNER,"Implementing this is a little tricky because there's a whole lot of code that expects the `database` captured by the URL routing to be the name used to look up the database in `datasette.databases` - or via `.get_database()`. The `DataView.get()` method is a good example of the trickyness here. It even has code that dispatches out to plugin hooks that take `database` as a parameter. https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/61419388c134001118aaf7dfb913562d467d7913/datasette/views/base.py#L383-L555 All the more reason to get rid of that `BaseView -> DataView -> TableView` hierarchy entirely: - #1660","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073073579,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073073579,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9c2r,9599,2022-03-19T20:06:27Z,2022-03-19T20:06:27Z,OWNER,Marking this as blocked until #1660 is done.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073075697,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073075697,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9dXx,9599,2022-03-19T20:24:06Z,2022-03-19T20:24:06Z,OWNER,"Right now if a database has a `.` in its name e.g. `fixtures.dot` the URL to that database is: /fixtures~2Edot But the output on `/-/databases` doesn't reflect that, it still shows the name with the dot.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073075913,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073075913,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9dbJ,9599,2022-03-19T20:25:46Z,2022-03-19T20:26:08Z,OWNER,"The output of `/.json` DOES use `path` to mean the URL path, not the path to the file on disk: ``` { ""fixtures.dot"": { ""name"": ""fixtures.dot"", ""hash"": null, ""color"": ""631f11"", ""path"": ""/fixtures~2Edot"", ``` So that's a problem already: having `db.path` refer to something different from that JSON is inconsistent.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073076015,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073076015,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9dcv,9599,2022-03-19T20:26:32Z,2022-03-19T20:26:32Z,OWNER,I'm inclined to redefine `ds.path` to `ds.file_path` to fix this. Or `ds.filepath`.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073076110,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073076110,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9deO,9599,2022-03-19T20:27:22Z,2022-03-19T20:27:22Z,OWNER,"The docs do currently describe `path` as the filesystem path here: https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/internals.html#database-class Good thing I'm not at 1.0 yet so I can change that!","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073076136,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073076136,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9deo,9599,2022-03-19T20:27:44Z,2022-03-19T20:27:44Z,OWNER,"Pretty sure changing it will break some existing plugins though, including likely Datasette Desktop.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073076187,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073076187,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9dfb,9599,2022-03-19T20:28:20Z,2022-03-19T20:28:20Z,OWNER,I'm going to keep `path` as the path to the file on disk. I'll pick a new name for what is currently `path` in that undocumented JSON API.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073097394,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073097394,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9iqy,9599,2022-03-19T20:56:35Z,2022-03-19T20:56:35Z,OWNER,"I'm trying to think if there's any reason not to use `route` for this. Would I possibly want to use that noun for something else in the future? I like it more than `route_path` because it has no underscore. Decision made: I'm going with `route`.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073112104,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073112104,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9mQo,9599,2022-03-19T21:08:21Z,2022-03-19T21:08:21Z,OWNER,"I think I've got this working but I need to write a test for it that covers the rare case when the route is not the same thing as the database name. I'll do that with a new test.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073125334,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073125334,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9pfW,9599,2022-03-19T22:53:55Z,2022-03-19T22:53:55Z,OWNER,"Need to update documentation in a few places - e.g. https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/internals.html#remove-database-name > This removes a database that has been previously added. `name=` is the unique name of that database, used in its URL path.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073126264,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073126264,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9pt4,9599,2022-03-19T22:59:30Z,2022-03-19T22:59:30Z,OWNER,"Also need to update the `datasette.urls` methods that construct the URL to a database/table/row - they take the database name but they need to know to look for the route. Need to add tests that check the links in the HTML and can confirm this is working correctly.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073134206,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073134206,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9rp-,9599,2022-03-20T00:12:03Z,2022-03-20T00:12:03Z,OWNER,I'd like to have a live demo of this up on `latest.datasette.io` too.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073134816,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073134816,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9rzg,9599,2022-03-20T00:16:22Z,2022-03-20T00:16:22Z,OWNER,I'm going to add a `fixtures2.db` database which has that as the name but `alternative-route` as the route. I'll set that up using a custom plugin in the `plugins/` folder that gets deployed by https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/main/.github/workflows/deploy-latest.yml,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073135433,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073135433,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9r9J,9599,2022-03-20T00:20:36Z,2022-03-20T00:20:36Z,OWNER,"Building this plugin instantly revealed that all of the links - on the homepage and the database page and so on - are incorrect: ```python from datasette import hookimpl @hookimpl def startup(datasette): db = datasette.get_database(""fixtures2"") db.route = ""alternative-route"" ```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073136686,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073136686,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9sQu,9599,2022-03-20T00:31:13Z,2022-03-20T00:31:13Z,OWNER,"That demo is now live: - https://latest.datasette.io/alternative-route - https://latest.datasette.io/alternative-route/attraction_characteristic","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154, https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668#issuecomment-1073136896,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1668,1073136896,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_9sUA,9599,2022-03-20T00:33:23Z,2022-03-20T00:33:23Z,OWNER,I'm going to release this as a 0.61 alpha so I can more easily depend on it from `datasette-hashed-urls`.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1174306154,