JSON data/structure input/output

[mhulse]

• Determine workflow and tools used to parse JSON/data.
• Determine JSON/data format that we'll need for parsing on GH pages.

Tools to maybe utilize:

1. Mustache or lodash for templating.
2. Angular.js JS framework
3. jQuery
4. Other?

[robertdenton]

Rob's first go at it:

[
    {
        "contest": "US Senate",
        "total": 400,
        "options": [
            {
                "option":"Yes",
                "votes": 137,
                "percent": 34.25
            },
            {
                "option":"No",
                "votes": 341,
                "percent": 85.25
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "contest": "US Rep 4th District",
        "total": 500,
        "options": [
            {
                "option":"Yes",
                "votes": 200,
                "percent": 40
            },
            {
                "option":"No",
                "votes": 100,
                "percent": 20
            }
        ]
    }
]

[jheasly]

Add:

• [x] JSONP; GET option?
• [x] Test data generator.
• [x] Test data reset.

[mhulse]

Note to self: For parsing/templating/MVC, http://knockoutjs.com maybe? Need to explore.

[mhulse]

Nice work on this first draft of the JSON output John: http://projects.registerguard.com/ballot/json/

:+1: and adding (above) link to issue for future reference.

[jheasly]

JSONP feed info items to be integrated into display:

• [x] "incumbent"
• [x] "affiliation_pretty"/"affiliation" (note: If "Nonpartisan" / "(N)" race, probably just want to ignore displaying. Most of the city council races are of this type.)
  • Constitution
  • Democratic
  • Independent
  • Libertarian
  • Nonpartisan
  • Pacific Green
  • Peace
  • Progressive
  • Republican
  • Working Families
• [x] Short state measure descriptions (which I don't think is actually in the JSON yet ... )
  Done: It's called explainer_text

[mhulse]

Feed tweaks:

• [x] Add generic description field (perhaps for each candidate or yes/no)
  Done: It's called extra_cand_meas_text
• [x] Add image url field (for content measures and for each candidate)
  Done: It's called image_url and takes up to 300 characters
• [x] Create the "top" /top feed where we pick the "top" race(s) and measures via checkbox.
  • Checkbox for each measure (individual measure will be cherry picked)
  • Checkbox for race (all governors, for example, and we'll grab top two in a loop).

[jheasly]

Django - clear cache on model save - the lightweight way (hamfisted — clobbers entire cache — but lightweight ... ) https://gist.github.com/centralniak/1100130 https://github.com/registerguard/django-ad-manager/blob/master/ad_manager/mixins/views.py

Interesting Concentric Sky code (but not really what I'm looking for): https://github.com/concentricsky/django-cachemodel

[mhulse]

Just so I have the key/values:

• C: Constitution
• D: Democratic
• I: Independent
• L: Libertarian
• N: Nonpartisan
• PR: Progressive
• P: Peace
• PG: Pacific Green
• R: Republican
• WF: Working Families

[mhulse]

Just curious, why do some of the "votes" in this:

http://projects.registerguard.com/ballot/json/region/

Say "None"?

[jheasly]

As for key/values, the JSON(P) feeds have an affiliation_pretty key, where the value is the full name. Does that take care of the issue?

[jheasly]

You get a value of None until a value of 0 gets recorded by an updating script or fat-fingered in via the admin.

[mhulse]

Yup, affiliation_pretty is useful. I am using both actually. IIRC, I ended up checking for !== "none' and !== "" to get around some of the issues I was having. All is good now.

Thanks for clarification.

With that said, I think this issue is complete. Everything has been checked off above lists (just need to refine styles and cross-browser test).

Closing! :+1:

[jheasly]

Thinking about it now, running a python manage.py ballot_test_data_in (then python manage.py ballot_test_data_reset) would've removed the Nones.

I think the Nones must've been the Region races/measures I added late last week and I never inserted/deleted test data into them, so they still had that virgin None state.

[mhulse]

Ah, I see. No worries. 😃

• [x] We'll bust out some test data on Monday.

I really want to make sure my JS is updating results correctly, so we'll have to do some thorough checking.