Inline Tutorial

Frictionless supports working with Inline Data from memory.

Reading Data

You can read data in this format using Package/Resource, for example:

Python

from pprint import pprint

from frictionless import Resource

resource = Resource(data=[['id', 'name'], [1, 'english'], [2, 'german']])

pprint(resource.read_rows())

[{'id': 1, 'name': 'english'}, {'id': 2, 'name': 'german'}]

Writing Data

The same is actual for writing:

Python

from frictionless import Resource

source = Resource('data/table.csv')

target = source.write(format='inline')

print(target)

print(target.to_view())

{'data': [['id', 'name'], [1, 'english'], [2, '中国人']], 'format': 'inline'}

+----+-----------+

| id | name |

+====+===========+

| 1 | 'english' |

+----+-----------+

| 2 | '中国人' |

+----+-----------+

Configuring Data

There is a dialect to configure this format, for example:

Python

from frictionless import Resource

from frictionless.plugins.inline import InlineDialect

dialect = InlineDialect(keyed=True, keys=['name', 'id'])

resource = Resource(data=[{'id': 1, 'name': 'english'}, {'id': 2, 'name': 'german'}], dialect=dialect)

print(resource.to_view())

+-----------+----+

| name | id |

+===========+====+

| 'english' | 1 |

+-----------+----+

| 'german' | 2 |

+-----------+----+

References:

• Inline Dialect