mvcgi

BioThings Studio data plugin demo

A data plugin is defined by at least a manifest file and a parser.

manifest.json

It contains different sections:

• "dumper": tells the studio where to get data from

  • "data_url" : a string, or a list of strings, containins URLs. Currently supported protocols are: http, https, and ftp. http/https must not be mixed with ftp (only one protocol supported)

  • "uncompress": true|false. tells the studio to try to uncompress downloaded data. Currently supports zip, gz, bz2 and xz format.

  • "release": Optiona. Format: "module:function", refers to a function returning a string as a release.

           By default, if not provided, dumper will try to
           find release information from data_url itself. If http is used,
           Last-Modified or ETag HTTP headers will be considered to set a release.
           If ftp, MDTM will be used. Both will result in a timestamp-like format,
           such as YYYY-mm-dd. If a list of URLs is specified, this logic will be applied
           to the latest one in the list.
           
           If no such information is available, this field can be specified as a hook
           returning a release number (as a string). The signature takes "self" as the
           only argument and will represent the active dumper instance (function will
           actually be monkey-patched to the dumper instance). Any method/property is
           available to determine the release number, specifically, self.__class__.SRC_URLS
           containing the URLs defined abobe. self.client can be used to inspect these URLs
           further, and corresponds to either an ftplib.FTP or request.Session instance.
    

• "upload": tells the studio how to parse and upload data once it's been dumped locally

  • "parser" : Format "module:fuction", where function takes a data folder path as argument (ie. where the data was downloaded). While parsing data, it should return or yield dict with at least "_id" key present.

  • "on_duplicates" : what to do if duplicates are found (parser returns dict with same _id). Can be either error|ignore|merge. (merge will merge dict together, see biothings.utils.dataload.merge_struct function

• "__metadata__": describes the datasource, exposed through /metadata endpoint.

  • "license_url": points to license page

  • "license": license name if any

  • "url": datasource main web page