How to export data using nbshell?

[hoalex]

Hi there,

I am looking for a way to use the export functionality of the web UI via Nbshell (the standard "All Data" export would be fine; using a custom export template would be even better). Is this even possible, and if yes, does anyone know how to use it?

Thanks!
Alex

[jeremystretch]

nbshell is just a wrapper around the Python interactive shell, so you can do pretty much anything you can write code for.

You can find the ExportModel class defined in extras/models.py. This class includes a render() method which takes a queryset and returns the rendered output. So, you can do something like this:

sites = Site.objects.all()
et = ExportTemplate.objects.get(name='MyExportTemplate')
et.render(sites)

Hope that helps!

[hoalex]

Thanks, that works! 👍
Any way to also run the default "All data" export via nbshell? It seems it's not technically defined as an export template...

[jeremystretch]

The default export is handled by the table class. You can find the code for it here.

[hoalex]

Thank you for the pointer, I will see if I can get that to work. For the moment, using the export templates works fine for me.