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Ship the equipment catalog so a new site does not start empty
`flask seed reference-data` wrote a dozen generic model types and no vendors or
models at all, so adopting this platform began by retyping a catalog another
site had already spent a year building. That is the largest single obstacle to
standing a new facility up.

scripts/export_catalog.py dumps the catalog from a live instance to
shopdb/data/catalog.json, and `flask seed catalog` loads it. What travels:

  vendors 53, models 128, modelsupplies 146, modeltypes 35, machinetypes 21,
  computertypes 10, printertypes 9, networkdevicetypes 5, locationtypes 11,
  operatingsystems 14, measuringtooltypes 8, notificationtypes 3,
  accessprotocols 3

The 146 printer supplies are the most useful part after the models themselves:
every toner, drum and maintenance kit with its part number, colour, capacity
tier and page yield, already matched to the right model, instead of somebody
reading them off spent cartridges.

IDEMPOTENT and ADDITIVE. Records match on a natural key - a vendor by name, a
model by vendor plus model number, a supply by model plus part number - so a
second run adds nothing, and it never updates or deletes: a site that corrected
a description or pointed a model at its own photo keeps its version.

Catalog only. No assets, locations, employees, business units or anything with a
serial number: nobody wants one plant's machines appearing at another. Vendor
contact details are excluded too, since a rep's name and number belong to
whoever holds that relationship. supportteams, printerdrivers and customfields
are site-specific and deliberately absent.

Models and supplies reference their vendor by NAME rather than id, because ids
differ between databases and an id-keyed catalog would silently attach part
numbers to the wrong printer.

The installer offers it as a tick-box on a new "Starter data" page, defaulting
to on, passing -SeedCatalog to stage 3. Offered rather than assumed: a site that
machines nothing does not want 21 machine types cluttering its dropdowns.

Verified by loading into an empty database and running twice: every group
populated on the first pass, "Catalog already present, nothing to add" on the
second.
2026-08-05 13:16:57 -04:00

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"""Export the reference CATALOG from a live instance to a portable JSON file.
A new site starts with almost nothing: `flask seed reference-data` writes a
dozen generic model types and no vendors or models at all. So the first thing
anyone does at a new facility is retype a vendor and model list that another
facility already spent a year building. This lets that catalog travel.
CATALOG ONLY. Vendors, models and the type vocabularies are descriptions of
equipment that exists in the world, and are the same at every site. Assets,
locations, employees, business units and anything with a serial number are that
site's own records and are deliberately NOT exported - nobody wants West
Jefferson's machines appearing at another plant.
Vendor contact details are also skipped: a rep's name and phone number belong to
whoever has the relationship, not to the catalog.
python scripts/export_catalog.py # to shopdb/data/catalog.json
python scripts/export_catalog.py --out mine.json
python scripts/export_catalog.py --pretty # readable diffs in git
Load it on another instance with: flask seed catalog
"""
import argparse
import json
import os
import sys
from collections import OrderedDict
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
DEFAULT_OUT = os.path.join('shopdb', 'data', 'catalog.json')
def export(connection):
from sqlalchemy import inspect, text
inspector = inspect(connection)
tables = set(inspector.get_table_names())
data = OrderedDict()
def rows(sql):
return [dict(r._mapping) for r in connection.execute(text(sql))]
def has(table):
return table in tables
# --- type vocabularies -------------------------------------------------
# Each is a small controlled list, and a site with none of them cannot even
# classify what it owns.
if has('modeltypes'):
data['modeltypes'] = rows("""
SELECT modeltype, category, description, icon
FROM modeltypes ORDER BY modeltype""")
for table, column in (('machinetypes', 'machinetype'),
('computertypes', 'computertype'),
('printertypes', 'printertype'),
('networkdevicetypes', 'networkdevicetype'),
('locationtypes', 'locationtype')):
if has(table):
extra = ', color' if 'color' in {c['name'] for c in inspector.get_columns(table)} else ''
data[table] = rows('SELECT %s, description%s FROM %s ORDER BY %s'
% (column, extra, table, column))
if has('operatingsystems'):
columns = {c['name'] for c in inspector.get_columns('operatingsystems')}
wanted = [c for c in ('osname', 'osversion', 'osfamily', 'description') if c in columns]
data['operatingsystems'] = rows('SELECT %s FROM operatingsystems ORDER BY osname'
% ', '.join(wanted))
# --- vendors -----------------------------------------------------------
# Name and website only. Contact person, phone and address are a site's own
# relationship with that vendor, not a property of the vendor.
if has('vendors'):
columns = {c['name'] for c in inspector.get_columns('vendors')}
wanted = [c for c in ('vendor', 'website', 'description') if c in columns]
data['vendors'] = rows('SELECT %s FROM vendors ORDER BY vendor' % ', '.join(wanted))
# --- models ------------------------------------------------------------
# Referenced by NAME, not id: ids differ between databases, and a catalog
# keyed on them would silently attach models to the wrong vendor.
if has('models'):
data['models'] = rows("""
SELECT m.modelnumber AS modelnumber,
v.vendor AS vendor,
mt.modeltype AS modeltype,
m.description AS description,
m.documentationurl AS documentationurl,
m.imageurl AS imageurl
FROM models m
LEFT JOIN vendors v ON m.vendorid = v.vendorid
LEFT JOIN modeltypes mt ON m.modeltypeid = mt.modeltypeid
ORDER BY v.vendor, m.modelnumber""")
# --- printer supplies --------------------------------------------------
# The single most useful thing to inherit after the models themselves: a new
# site with printers gets every toner, drum and maintenance-kit part number
# already matched to the right model, instead of somebody reading them off
# cartridges. Keyed by the model's natural key for the same reason models
# are keyed by vendor name.
if has('modelsupplies') and has('models'):
data['modelsupplies'] = rows("""
SELECT mo.modelnumber AS modelnumber,
v.vendor AS vendor,
s.supplytype AS supplytype,
s.color AS color,
s.capacitytier AS capacitytier,
s.partnumber AS partnumber,
s.marketingname AS marketingname,
s.pageyield AS pageyield,
s.notes AS notes
FROM modelsupplies s
JOIN models mo ON s.modelnumberid = mo.modelnumberid
LEFT JOIN vendors v ON mo.vendorid = v.vendorid
ORDER BY v.vendor, mo.modelnumber, s.partnumber""")
# --- small generic vocabularies ---------------------------------------
# Each is a controlled list that means the same thing at any site.
if has('measuringtooltypes'):
data['measuringtooltypes'] = rows(
'SELECT name, description, color FROM measuringtooltypes ORDER BY name')
if has('notificationtypes'):
data['notificationtypes'] = rows(
'SELECT typename, typedescription, typecolor FROM notificationtypes ORDER BY typename')
if has('accessprotocols'):
columns = {c['name'] for c in inspector.get_columns('accessprotocols')}
wanted = [c for c in ('name', 'scheme', 'defaultport', 'linktemplate') if c in columns]
data['accessprotocols'] = rows('SELECT %s FROM accessprotocols ORDER BY name'
% ', '.join(wanted))
# Drop empty optional values so the file stays readable and a NULL does not
# arrive as the string "None".
for key, records in data.items():
cleaned = []
for record in records:
cleaned.append({k: v for k, v in record.items() if v not in (None, '')})
data[key] = cleaned
return data
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__,
formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
parser.add_argument('--out', default=DEFAULT_OUT, help='output file')
parser.add_argument('--pretty', action='store_true',
help='indent the JSON so git diffs are readable')
args = parser.parse_args()
from shopdb import create_app
from shopdb.extensions import db
app = create_app()
with app.app_context():
data = export(db.session.connection())
directory = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(args.out))
if directory:
os.makedirs(directory, exist_ok=True)
with open(args.out, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as handle:
json.dump(data, handle, indent=2 if args.pretty else None,
ensure_ascii=False, sort_keys=False)
handle.write('\n')
print('Wrote %s' % args.out)
for key, records in data.items():
print(' %-22s %d' % (key, len(records)))
print('')
print('Load it on another instance with: flask seed catalog')
return 0
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())