Disscussion Board

[vvaezian]

Topics that don't need a ticket, should be discussed here.

[santy1402]

Hello. I wanted to ask for your help with metabase_api. I searched the internet for a long time but could not find a solution. Perhaps you know. I have a local metabase and have google auth configured. How do I use the api in this case? I think that only you can help me. Thanks

[vvaezian]

Hi @santy1402
I haven't tried Google authentication before. But probably one workaround is to use "ENABLE PASSWORD AUTHENTICATION" button. Then use username/password to connect to API (e.g. using metabase_api_python package, or other packages available).

[santy1402]

In this case, probably all users will be able to ignore the login through google. Maybe you know something else?

[vvaezian]

Cannot think of another approach at the moment.
Feel free to add the support for Google Auth to the current repo (see here).

[AndrewLWilson]

@vvaezian I love what you've created here and would like to contribute if you are open to that! Is there an easy way to populate a local Metabase instance with the required entities to run the test suite locally? I'm running the latest Metabase docker image, but the tests are failing because the required entities aren't found.

[vvaezian]

Hi @AndrewLWilson, I'm definitely open to any help for expanding the functionality of this package.
Regarding the tests, they are currently run against a live (personal) Metabase instance, so that wouldn't work on local. I cannot think of an easy way to maintain a local version currently. The tests will run once you create a PR though.

[AndrewLWilson]

Great! For now I'll rely on the PR to run tests. An idea to enable local testing for folks like me could be to redo the tests so that they bootstrap themselves off of the sample database that ships with Metabase. The tests could start with creating a collection, then creating a card, a dashboard, etc. That might be something I could work on if you are open to it.

[vvaezian]

That is a good idea. I'll look into it.

[vvaezian]

Feel free to write tests based on Sample Dataset. I had tried it initially, but the issue I believe was that I was missing some functions for example for creating dashboards. So I decided to use some pre-created objects.

[vvaezian]

@AndrewLWilson You can now run tests locally in v0.3.0 (see the tests directory).

[KonstLofi]

@vvaezian Thanks a lot for you package! It very useful and helpful. Could you please explain why it is necessary to set FRIENDLY TABLE AND FIELD NAMES setting into Disable before use get_columns_name_id function?
The setting change only display_name property like "display_name": "Goal Name" and not change name property like "name": "goal_name". I didn't find the use of display_name property in package.

[vvaezian]

Hi @KonstLofi , please see this issue.

[xandeea]

@vvaezian Hi, i'm getting an error using the function copy_dashboard: KeyError: 'sizeX', do you know what could be doing that?

[vvaezian]

hI @xandeea, it was due to a change they made in Metabase API. I did release a patch for it. You just need to upgrade: pip install --upgrade metabase_api

[xandeea]

thanks a lot!

[idot]

Dear @vvaezian , is it possible to use this metabase API client to migrate from one metabase instance to another? I saw some projects that do this, but I would start trying my migration with this project because it looks more complete/general if migration is in principle possible.

thank you very much in advance,
ido

[vvaezian]

Hi @idot, if you are using Pro or Enterprise version of Metabase, there is the Serialization feature specifically for your use-case. Otherwise, while you can use the current package for getting the Metabase objects, the current functions are not specifically designed for your use-case. So you probably would need to do some development yourself.