Custom Project Settings¶

The settings listed below allow you to customize the behavior our apps to suit your needs. They should be declared in your Django project’s settings.py file.

CALACCESS_DATA_DIR¶

The local directory where the calaccess_raw and calaccess_processed management commands will download, extract and write files. By default, this is will be {BASE_DIR}/data/, where BASE_DIR is a setting pre-populated in settings.py when you set up a new Django project.

You can change this location — say to the tmp/ directory at your file system’s root — by adding a line to settings.py:

CALACCESS_DATA_DIR = '/tmp/'

CALACCESS_STORE_ARCHIVE¶

Enable archiving of all .ZIP, .TSV and .CSV files in order to preserve each snapshot of the raw and processed CAL-ACCESS data.

Be default, archiving is disabled. You can enable it by adding this line to settings.py:

CALACCESS_DATA_DIR = True

If you enable archiving, files will be saved in your Django project’s default storage system, which you can also customize. For example, we use django-storages to upload our archived files to an AWS Simple Service Storage (S3) bucket.

If you enable archiving without configuring DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE, files will be stored in the directory specified in your Django project’s MEDIA_ROOT.

You can read more about how Django manages file storage here.