Load and dump data to json files

It will be nice to have cli commands for importing/exporting data, something like:

$ lektor load file.csv $ lektor dump model --otuput file.csv

It’ll be useful when importing data from other tools, spreadsheets, databases… etc

• It’s this ok?
• Should data be imported/exported from csv or json files?

If this gets approved I’m willing to provide a PR for it

[nixjdm]

In case anyone wants to take a crack at this a good place to start might be datamodel.py For instance it has several to_json methods that can do a lot of the exporting right now. Importing is another matter, but it’s a good jumping off point.

For instance, play around in the lektor dev shell. Try pprint.pprint(pad.get('/').datamodel.to_json(pad))

[rlaverde]

Also, lektor load file.csv reads like a pretty broadly scoped command. Where do you envision this being imported to? Will that be encoded in the csv? CLI options could let you specify what to do with it.

Yes, load command will need some options (also dump), maybe something like this:

lektor load --model <model> --path <path> --format <json,csv> <file name>

lektor load --model blog --path /content/blog --format csv blog_dump.csv