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ciudadanointeligente / write-it

App to create and send messages to public persons. It's a component of POPLUS project.
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Import from json instead of PopIt #1105

Closed michalskop closed 8 years ago

michalskop commented 8 years ago

It would be useful to have possibility to import data from Popolo-standardized json file instead of PopIt. For example, if the aim is to create an instance for a city council with a couple of representatives that are not going to change in the next 4 years, setting up a new instance of PopiIt seems to me as an overkill (if all we need is to import a couple of dozens of strings).

tmtmtmtm commented 8 years ago

Hi @michalskop — in theory this already works like that. However, the implementation currently uses popit-django so it's not quite as simple as giving it the URL of the pure JSON (see the discussion at https://github.com/ciudadanointeligente/write-it/issues/1100#issuecomment-151323168)

To get the integration with WriteInPublic working, we had to write a little proxy app that turned our JSON into the required format, but that was because we wanted those to automatically update any time the data changed. If it's a one-off file that would be a lot easier.

Hopefully someone will get around to replacing the dependency on popit-django with django-popolo soon though, so that even that isn't necessary,