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How to support Data Package versions and version changes in frictionless-r #224

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peterdesmet opened this issue Jul 3, 2024 · 0 comments

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peterdesmet commented Jul 3, 2024

Data Package is now versioned, something that can be indicated at the $schema property. Ideally, frictionless-r supports (the properties that makes sense) for all versions (currently v1 and v2) and doesn't require users to install an older version of frictionless-r to support previous versions of Data Package

Reading

Ideally, when reading a data package, frictionless-r:

  • Detects the version of package, resource, dialect, schema
  • Assumes v1 if not provided in schema (cf. specs)
  • Does not communicate version, but can provided it with detected function version()
  • Silently (!) ignores properties that are not part of the version (e.g. categorical in v1): note, this may be frustrating to the user, who should know to update $schema to v2, but warning for all of these is hard to provide.
  • Warns if a version is not recognized and reverts to the latest version supported by frictionless-r

Writing

Ideally, when writing a data package, frictionless-r:

  • Always writes to the latest version supported by frictionless-r? This can be frustrating to users who want to retain the version.
  • Alternatively, write_package() allows to specify a version, and older versions can be gradually phased out.

Examples and test

  • Update example to v2
  • Provide test files for v1
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