This could use a new plugin hook, too. I don't want to complicate your life too much, but for things like GIS, I'd want a way to turn regular JSON into SpatiaLite geometries or combine X/Y coordinates into point geometries and such. Happy to help however I can.

@eyeseast Maybe you could do this with triggers? Like you can insert JSON-friendly data into a "raw" table, and create a trigger that transforms that inserted data into the proper table

Here's an example:

-- meant to be updated from a Datasette insert
create table points_raw(longitude int, latitude int);

-- the target table with proper spatliate geometries
create table points(point geometry);

CREATE TRIGGER insert_points_raw INSERT ON points_raw 
  BEGIN
    insert into points(point) values (makepoint(new.longitude, new.latitude))
  END;

You could then POST a new row to points_raw like this:

POST /db/points_raw
Authorization: Bearer xxx
Content-Type: application/json
{
  "row": {
    "longitude": 27.64356,
    "latitude": -47.29384
  }
}

Then SQLite with run the trigger and insert a new row in points with the correct geometry point. Downside is you'd have duplicated data with points_raw, but maybe it could be a TEMP table (or have a cron that deletes all rows from that table every so often?)

Uh oh!

API to insert a single record into an existing table #1851

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