[Developers] Prototyping in the sandbox

[Paul Mackay]

Hello,

To facilitate prototyping in the sandbox, I was thinking it would be helpful
to have documented methods of doing the following:

* Defining types, topics and bases in a file format that can be used by the
libraries, e.g. Python. Perhaps this could be one of the 2 data dump formats
or something closer to the data structures used when programming.

* Export functionality to grab a set of entries defined by various criteria
(creator, types linked to a base, etc) and dump to that format.

* Import functionality to push all entries from the format into the
database.

These could then be used to experiment with the sandbox even though it gets
wiped once a week.

Currently there seems to be the data dumps in 2 formats and then the Python
API that returns results as Python data structures. Has there been any
discussion to provide something in between, roughly along the lines I
describe above? If not I would be happy to discuss further.

cheers

paul
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