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| 336936010 | MDU6SXNzdWUzMzY5MzYwMTA= | 331 | Datasette throws error when loading spatialite db without extension loaded | 82988 | closed | 0 | 2 | 2018-06-29T09:51:14Z | 2022-01-20T21:29:40Z | 2018-07-10T15:13:36Z | CONTRIBUTOR | When starting datasette on a SpatialLite database *without* loading the SpatiaLite extension (using eg `--load-extension=/usr/local/lib/mod_spatialite.dylib`) an error is thrown and the server fails to start: ``` datasette -p 8003 adminboundaries.db Serve! files=('adminboundaries.db',) on port 8003 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/ajh59/anaconda3/bin/datasette", line 11, in <module> sys.exit(cli()) File "/Users/ajh59/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/ajh59/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/Users/ajh59/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/Users/ajh59/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/Users/ajh59/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/ajh59/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/datasette/cli.py", line 552, in serve ds.inspect() File "/Users/ajh59/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/datasette/app.py", line 273, in inspect "tables": inspect_tables(conn, self.metadata.get("databases", {}).get(name, {})) File "/Users/ajh59/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/datasette/inspect.py", line 79, in inspect_tables "PRAGMA table_info({});".format(escape_sqlite(table)) sqlite3.OperationalError: no such module: VirtualSpatialIndex ``` It would be nice to trap this and return a message saying something like: ``` It looks like you're trying to load a SpatiaLite database? Make sure you load in the SpatiaLite extension when starting datasette. Read more: https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/spatialite.html ``` | 107914493 | issue | {"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/331/reactions", "total_count": 0, "+1": 0, "-1": 0, "laugh": 0, "hooray": 0, "confused": 0, "heart": 0, "rocket": 0, "eyes": 0} | completed |