ckanext-comments

Add comment-trees to CKAN pages.

This plugins provides comment threads linked to any of the main CKAN entities:

• datasets
• resources
• groups
• organizations
• users.

All the features are API-first, so anything you can do via UI, can be done via API.

No changes to the WebUI are done by default. One have to include a snippet into Jinja2 template in order to show the comments on a page.

{# subject_type := package | group | resource | user #}
{% snippet 'comments/snippets/thread.html', subject_id=pkg.id, subject_type='package' %}

:info: For the datasets it also can be achieved by enabling ckanext.comments.enable_default_dataset_comments option.

Requirements

• python >= 3.7
• CKAN >= 2.9

Installation

To install ckanext-comments:

1. Install python package

pip install ckanext-comments

1. Add comments to the ckan.plugins setting in your CKAN config file

2. Apply database migrations

ckan db upgrade -p comments

1. Add cooments/snippets/thread.html to your package/read.html template, like this:

{% ckan_extends %}

{% block primary_content_inner %}
  {{ super() }}
  {% snippet 'comments/snippets/thread.html', subject_id=pkg.id, subject_type='package' %}
{% endblock primary_content_inner %}

Config settings

# Require comment approval in order to make it visible
# (optional, default: true).
ckanext.comments.require_approval = false

# Editor(admin) can edit draft comments
# (optional, default: true).
ckanext.comments.draft_edits = true

# Author can edit own draft comments
# (optional, default: true).
ckanext.comments.draft_edits_by_author = false

# Editor(admin) can edit approved comments
# (optional, default: false).
ckanext.comments.approved_edits = false

# Author can edit own approved comments
# (optional, default: false).
ckanext.comments.approved_edits_by_author = false

# Number of reply levels that are shown on mobile layout
# (optional, default: 3).
ckanext.comments.mobile_depth_threshold = 3

# Include default thread implementation on the dataset page
# (optional, default: false).
ckanext.comments.enable_default_dataset_comments = true

API

comments_thread_create

Create a thread for the subject.

Args:

• subject_id(str): unique ID of the commented entity
• subject_type(str:package|resource|user|group): type of the commented entity

comments_thread_show

Show the subject's thread.

Args:

• subject_id(str): unique ID of the commented entity
• subject_type(str:package|resource|user|group): type of the commented entity
• init_missing(bool, optional): return an empty thread instead of 404
• include_comments(bool, optional): show comments from the thread
• include_author(bool, optional): show authors of the comments
• combine_comments(bool, optional): combine comments into a tree-structure
• after_date(str:ISO date, optional): show comments only since the given date

comments_thread_delete

Delete the thread.

Args:

• id(str): ID of the thread

comments_comment_create

Add a comment to the thread.

Args:

• subject_id(str): unique ID of the commented entity
• subject_type(str:package|resource|user|group): type of the commented entity
• content(str): comment's message
• reply_to_id(str, optional): reply to the existing comment
• create_thread(bool, optional): create a new thread if it doesn't exist yet

comments_comment_show

Show the details of the comment

Args:

• id(str): ID of the comment

comments_comment_approve

Approve draft comment

Args:

• id(str): ID of the comment

comments_comment_delete

Remove existing comment

Args:

• id(str): ID of the comment

comments_comment_update

Update existing comment

Args:

• id(str): ID of the comment
• content(str): comment's message

Tests

To run the tests, do:

pytest --ckan-ini=test.ini

License

AGPL