def post_data(visualization_id, request):
"""Post new data for an existing visualization (i.e. add data to existing
object in db).
Arguments:
visualization_id -- id of the visualization for which the data posted is.
request -- Flask request object, with the data for the
visualization in the json field.
"""
data = request.json
result = db.write_viz_data(visualization_id, data)
# TODO: return proper value to describe succes/failure of data write.
return {"empty": result}
def post_data(visualization_id, request):
"""Post new data for an existing visualization (i.e. add data to existing
object in db).
Arguments:
visualization_id -- id of the visualization for which the data posted is.
request -- Flask request object, with the data for the
visualization in the json field.
"""
data = request.json
result = db.write_viz_data(visualization_id, data)
# TODO: return proper value to describe succes/failure of data write.
return {"empty": result}
def post_data_new_viz(request):
"""Post new data for a new visualization (i.e. we don't know the id, so
create some new visualization object to hold this data). The method should
return the _id of the visualization created.
Arguments:
request -- Flask request object, with the data for the visualization
in the json field.
"""
# check if any name has been provided for the visualization, otherwise
# generate a random one.
data = request.get_json()
print type(data)
print data
if not 'name' in data:
data.name = uuid.uuid4()
# generate the viz id.
data['_id'] = uuid.uuid4().hex
# write the new object to db.
result = db.write_viz_data(data['_id'], data)
return result
def post_data_new_viz(request):
"""Post new data for a new visualization (i.e. we don't know the id, so
create some new visualization object to hold this data). The method should
return the _id of the visualization created.
Arguments:
request -- Flask request object, with the data for the visualization
in the json field.
"""
# check if any name has been provided for the visualization, otherwise
# generate a random one.
data = request.get_json()
print type(data)
print data
if not 'name' in data:
data.name = uuid.uuid4()
# generate the viz id.
data['_id'] = uuid.uuid4().hex
# write the new object to db.
result = db.write_viz_data(data['_id'], data)
return result