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[EPIC] Fetchers DX

DX = developer experience

This EPIC lists issues aiming to simplify development of fetchers by providing higher-level tools/libraries/services, harmonize fetchers by reducing their specificities, and improve technical documentation. It does not deal with data model.

This would prevent fetcher authors to reinvent something, having to copy/paste recipies, reduce the risk of forgetting something and give directives about how to write a fetcher in general.

The common tasks could be implemented as a library of functions (i.e. dbnomics_fetchers Python package), or fetchers could implement some method, inherit a class, etc. Each solution will be discussed in specific issues, and we'll decide about the implementation once we will be sure that it satisfies the majority of the needs.

Goals

  • for each fetcher, write the mapping between the source data model and the dbnomics data model, for example in the README
    • propose an example to fill-in

Issues

Edited by Christophe Benz