Extending dsprofile

Info

This section is intended for developers who wish to extend the functionality of dsprofile or include its features in their own projects.

Overview

This section describes how to add functionality to dsprofile. This can take two primary forms:

1. Adding Reader support for additional dataset formats
2. Adding Writer support for additional output formats

Guidelines are also provided to assist in integrating extensions to dsprofile into its existing codebase, for example by providing support for the command-line interface and unit-testing.

Using dsprofile as a package

The dsprofile utility can be run as a standalone program, integrated into workflow pipelines, invoked as a WSGI application, or included directly within other Python programs.