List Popper and Friends: New SSA Plugin for Your Backend Workflow (API Workflow) Needs

[keith]

Here’s an interesting application for List Popper that I just came across - deleting duplicate Things as one might generate when lazily populating a database from CSV:

Bulk Upload Workflow

OK, so here’s the lazy person’s way to do this. First, you must define your Things (seems you might have already done this, but just in case). The data model I’m using for this is this github repo: https://github.com/abhionlyone/us-car-models-data And in this model, a “vehicle” looks like this: [image] So, we need a thing (custom data type) for Vehicle, Make (I’ve called mine Vehicle Make so I can just get rid of it later), Model (mine called Vehicle Model), and Body Style (Vehicle Body Styl…

(Also, I’ve never bothered to populate a database via CSV in the way that the original poster in that thread was attempting, so I figured I’d try it out and learn some stuff. I didn’t learn much as it worked pretty much as I would have expected, but I think this method of deduplication is pretty slick.)