Remote Endpoints

Datasets can be configured to retrieve data from a remote endpoint, as opposed to an internal database table. This is currently implemented by calling:

manage.py change_dataset $DATASET --endpoint-url=...

Remote endpoints have reduced functionality. The following features are not available yet:

• Field reduction

• Expanding relations

• Filtering on relations

• WFS endpoints

• Export formats (e.g. CSV / GeoJSON)

In fact, the remote endpoints still behave mostly as a reverse proxy. The endpoint is retrieved, validated against the schema, and authentication/authorization is applied.

The logic for remote endpoints exists in dso_api.dynamic_api.remote. Its serializers build upon the DSO base classes:

The serializers have their own factory function; remote_serializer_factory(). It uses the Amsterdam Schema data to generate the serializer fields.