ckanaction

Rust library crate to access CKAN Action API endpoints through Rust builders. Based on the CKAN Action API v3. Endpoints are expected to return with an output of type serde_json::Value.

cargo add ckanaction

Examples

Run /package_list endpoint with a limit of 5 results per page and print the output:

use dotenvy::dotenv;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    // Load environment variables from .env file
    dotenv()?;

    // Initialize and build CKAN struct
    let ckan = ckanaction::CKAN::builder()
        .url("http://localhost:5000")
        .token(dotenvy::var("CKAN_API_TOKEN")?)
        .build();

    // Send request to /package_list and print output
    let result = ckan.package_list()
        .limit(5) // <-- This is an optional parameter you can remove
        .call()
        .await?;
    println!("{result:#?}");

    Ok(())
}

The following examples won't include the boilerplate code.

Create a new package (dataset) with custom fields:

let custom_fields = serde_json::json!({
    "data_contact_email": "support@dathere.com",
    "update_frequency": "daily",
    "related_resources": [],
});
let result = ckan.package_create()
    .name("my-new-package".to_string())
    .custom_fields(custom_fields)
    .private(false)
    .call()
    .await?;
println!("{result:#?}");

Create a new resource with a new file from a file path:

let path_buf = current_dir()?.join("data.csv");
let result = ckan
    .resource_create()
    .package_id("3mz0qhbb-cdb0-ewst-x7c0-casnkwv0edub".to_string())
    .name("My new resource".to_string())
    .format("CSV".to_string())
    .upload(path_buf)
    .call()
    .await?;
println!("{result:#?}");

Some endpoints without any parameters may not need a builder such as /status_show so there is no .call() method after .status_show():

let status_show = ckan.status_show().await?;
println!("{status_show:#?}");

Notes

• If you use a maybe_fn() then if you provide None it will be ignored and that parameter will not be added to the JSON body. This library assumes None would not be provided as a value (since the cases where it is a value is often the default value that the CKAN API already has set for that parameter).

Tests

To run the tests in the tests directory, first replace the values for CKAN_API_TOKEN and CKAN_URL then run:

cargo test