feature request: Import API: add `overwrite` to `collision_strategy`

In cartoframes development, we rely on the Import API for updating a table in a user’s account.

Having a collision_strategy=overwrite option would make our development cleaner and allow us to offload the complexity of data/map management to CARTO’s APIs instead of having to rely on the unintended consequences of dropping a table that a visualization is attached to.

• Strategy
  • If the schema does not exactly match, raise an error.
• Documentation

cc @juanignaciosl

[javisantana]

If we want to implement this we should close the scope a lot, specifically about table schema. If the schema does not exactly match I’d raise an error.

To give some perspective. We had (during years) a feature called import append flag. Actually we had that feature in the first version of the editor, it was always disabled and we finally removed it because we didn’t implement it. I also heard a lot of times the “replace table” thing

[juanignaciosl]

@andy-esch give this a try at your CartoFrames workflow. If you find bugs or rough edges open a new issue and we’ll discuss it.