Wrap GET requests to Census API in while loop

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Data Repo for the equitable development tool (EDDT)

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Wrap GET requests to Census API in while loop #142

Closed SashaWeinstein closed 2 years ago

SashaWeinstein commented 2 years ago

This is based off idea Max found and shared over email. Put GET requests in while loop that breaks when:

a successful request comes back
an error comes back that the url is wrong (has a misspelling or queries a non-existent variable)
it has tries a maximum number of times

SashaWeinstein commented 2 years ago

Note on variable naming.

I'm planning to cache aggregated results based on the the "category" which is the tab in the data matrix. However we already use the term "category" to refer to the different values that a categorical column can take on (age buckets, race, etc). The EDDT_category parameter/attr is used to refer to the tabs in the data matrix