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Extension

This feature is currently experimental. The API might change without notice

Frictionless is built on top of a powerful plugins system which is used internally and allows to extend the framework.

Creating Plugin

To create a plugin you need:

create a module called frictionless_<name> available in PYTHONPATH
subclass the Plugin class and override one of the methods above

Please consult with System/Plugin for in-detail information about the Plugin interface and how these methods can be implemented.

Plugin Example

Let's say we're interested in supporting the csv2k format that we have just invented. For simplicity, let's use a format that is exactly the same with CSV.

First of all, we need to create a frictionless_csv2k module containing a Plugin implementation and a Parser implementation but we're going to re-use the CsvParser as our new format is the same:

frictionless_csv2k.py

Python

from frictionless import Plugin, system
from frictionless.plugins.csv import CsvParser

class Csv2kPlugin(Plugin):
    def create_parser(self, resource):
        if resource.format == "csv2k":
            return Csv2kParser(resource)

class Csv2kParser(CsvParser):
    pass

system.register('csv2k', Csv2kPlugin())

Now, we can use our new format in any of the Frictionless functions that accept a table source, for example, extract or Table:

Python

from frictionless import extract

rows = extract('data/table.csv2k')
print(rows)

This example is over-simplified to show the high-level mechanics but writing Frictionless Plugins is designed to be easy. For inspiration, you can check the frictionless/plugins directory and learn from real-life examples. Also, in the Frictionless codebase there are many Check, Control, Dialect, Loader, Parser, and Server implementations - you can read their code for better understanding of how to write your own subclass or reach out to us for support.

Parameters

resource (Resource): resource

File Resource »

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