Provide a flag to open data packages with not safe paths?

Overview

We could allow to open data package with not safe paths if user explicitly choose it:

package = Package(descriptor, safe=False)

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From @vitorbaptista

This is what I’m trying to do:

import datapackage

descriptor = {
    'name': 'my-datapackage',
    'resources': [
      {
        'name': 'data',
        'path': '/tmp/my-data.csv'
      }
    ]
}
dp = datapackage.Package(descriptor)
# *** tableschema.exceptions.DataPackageException: Local path "/tmp/my-data.csv" is not safe

Reading the helpers.is_safe_path() method:

https://github.com/frictionlessdata/datapackage-py/blob/3d25cfd2013c0ddb6b5f9ceb7724dcd111fc9905/datapackage/helpers.py#L189-L196

Makes me think that what I’m trying to do isn’t possible anymore. Any known workarounds?

(cc @roll)

[roll]

It’s being released atm as datapackage@1.13:

• https://github.com/frictionlessdata/datapackage-py/blob/master/tests/test_resource.py#L388
• https://github.com/frictionlessdata/datapackage-py/blob/master/tests/test_package.py#L777

[davibicudo]

This is also an issue for me, as I described in the unnecessary duplicate issue: https://github.com/frictionlessdata/datapackage-py/issues/261 Thanks @vitorbaptista for the mock workaround, I’ll copy it for now in my code.