Reader classes

To provide alternative ways of importing data from various sources, several Reader classes are available to choose or extend from.

A base Reader class provides a base class that has to be inherited for all reader implementations.

Reader	Base reader class.
LocalFileSystemReader	Read a file from the local filesystem.

class Reader(**options)

Base reader class.

Read raw data from a file or other data source.

read()

Read in raw data from our source.

Returns

a lazy iterable that yields the file’s contents

class LocalFileSystemReader(**options)

Read a file from the local filesystem.

Key filename

Path to a local file either inside the STATIC_ROOT directory or an absolute path on the local system.

__init__(**options)

Set options for this reader.

Common options are a file path and name, as well as authentication credentials for logging on to remote systems.