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Processing while ingesting

Carlos Brandt edited this page Apr 28, 2016 · 9 revisions

DaCHS allows you to process your data while it is being ingested; and that can be done in different levels, from variables type casting to units conversion to complex,multiple variables computing. For the simple/common ones (e.g, units conversion), DaCHS even provides you an API; for more complex tasks, you can define your custom python code.

In your RD there are a couple of places you can trigger such processing calls. One of these places is in the rowmaker element.

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apply elements allow you to embed python code.
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