U/gblackadder/pydantic and excel

.gitignore

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+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+
+# Unit test
+.pytest_cache/
+
+# Environments
+.venv
+
+# Visual Studio Code
+.vscode/
+
+# Environment variables
+.env

.pre-commit-config.yaml

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+repos:
+  - repo: https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets
+    rev: v1.5.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: detect-secrets
+        exclude: package.lock.json
+        args: ["--exclude-lines", "\\s*\"image/png\": \".+\""]
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-isort
+    rev: v5.10.1  # Use the latest version
+    hooks:
+      - id: isort
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff-pre-commit
+    rev: v0.0.287  # Use the latest version
+    hooks:
+      - id: ruff
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
+    rev: 23.3.0  # Use the latest version
+    hooks:
+      - id: black

README.md

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 # metadata-schemas
-Metadata JSON Schemas
+This repository contains both the definitions of Metadata Schemas and a python library for creating schema objects with pydantic and Excel.
 
-View documentation - https://worldbank.github.io/metadata-schemas/
+## Defining Metadata Schemas
+
+The schemas are defined in the JSON Schema format in the folder `schemas`. For more information you can view documentation at https://worldbank.github.io/metadata-schemas/
+
+## Excel
+
+Excel sheets formatted for each metadata type are located in this repo in the excel_sheets folder.
+
+## Python library
+
+To install the library run
+
+```pip install metadataschemas```
+
+### Creating a pydantic metadata object
+
+To create a timeseries metadata object run
+
+```python
+from metadataschemas import timeseries_schema
+
+timeseries_metadata = timeseries_schema.TimeseriesSchema(idno='project_idno',series_description=timeseries_schema.SeriesDescription(idno='project_idno', name='project_name'))
+```
+
+Depending on your IDE, selecting `TimeseriesSchema` could show you what fields the schema contains and their corresponding object definitions.
+
+There are metadata objects for each of the following metadata types:
+
+| Metadata Type    | Metadata Object                                 |
+|------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
+| document         | `document_schema.ScriptSchemaDraft`             |
+| geospatial       | `geospatial_schema.GeospatialSchema`            |
+| script           | `script_schema.ResearchProjectSchemaDraft`      |
+| series           | `series_schema.Series`                          |
+| survey           | `microdata_schema.MicrodataSchema`              |
+| table            | `table_schema.Model`                            |
+| timeseries       | `timeseries_schema.TimeseriesSchema`            |
+| timeseries_db    | `timeseries_db_schema.TimeseriesDatabaseSchema` |
+| video            | `video_schema.Model`                            |
+
+### Python - Metadata Manager
+
+The Manager exists to be an interface with Excel and to lightly assist creating schemas.
+
+For Excel we can:
+
+1. Create blank Excel files formatted for a given metadata type
+2. Write metadata objects to Excel
+3. Read an appropriately formatted Excel file containing metadata into a pydantic metadata object
+
+To use it run:
+
+```python
+from metadataschemas import MetadataManager
+
+mm = MetadataManager()
+
+filename = mm.write_metadata_outline_to_excel('timeseries')
+
+filename = mm.save_metadata_to_excel('timeseries', 
+                                     object=timeseries_metadata)
+
+# Then after you have updated the metadata in the Excel file
+
+updated_timeseries_metadata = mm.read_metadata_from_excel(timeseries_metadata_filename)
+```
+
+Note that the Excel write and save functions do not currently support Geospatial metadata.
+
+The manager also offers a convenient way to get started creating metadata in pydantic by creating an empty pydantic object for a given metadata type which can then be updated as needed.
+
+```python
+# list the supported metadata types
+mm.metadata_type_names
+
+# get the pydantic class for a given metadata type
+survey_type = mm.metadata_class_from_name("survey")
+
+# create an instantiated pydantic object and then fill in your data
+survey_metadata = mm.type_to_outline(metadata_type="survey")
+survey_metadata.repositoryid = "repository id"
+survey_metadata.study_desc.title_statement.idno = "project_idno"
+```
+
+
+## Updating Pydantic definitions and Excel sheets
+
+To update the pydantic schemas so that they match the latest json schemas run
+
+    `python pydantic_schemas/generators/generate_pydantic_schemas.py`
+
+Then to update the Excel sheets run
+
+    `python pydantic_schemas/generators/generate_excel_files.py`