Change snippets to only download, but not read/decode data into the environment

manhinli commented 5 years ago

At the moment, the snippets for Python and R are reading in the content of the file into the environment, but this is causing a few headaches:

there is no one baseline format to read into - we can't always assume it is text
the code for R is problematic for a variety of reasons - one of which is the getURLContent() function which doesn't follow redirects (and bugs out when instructed to)
snippets currently write content into the data variable which the user needs to be aware of in case it does overwrite their own data

After discussions on Friday, 9 November, we came to the conclusion that the main thing to do here is to fetch the content, and to leave the reading/decoding to the user.

This ticket is to change the snippet code to provide only the necessary code to download the files in question.

manhinli commented 5 years ago

Done, sent through as part of PR: https://github.com/ausecocloud/workspace-ui/pull/23

gweis commented 5 years ago

merged and deployed

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Change snippets to only download, but not read/decode data into the environment #71