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Suppress rendering of binary data #442

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@russss russss commented Apr 29, 2019

Binary columns (including spatialite geographies) get shown as ugly
binary strings in the HTML by default. Nobody wants to see that mess.

Show the size of the column in bytes instead. If you want to decode
the binary data, you can use a plugin to do it.

Binary columns (including spatialite geographies) get shown as ugly
binary strings in the HTML by default. Nobody wants to see that mess.

Show the size of the column in bytes instead. If you want to decode
the binary data, you can use a plugin to do it.
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simonw commented May 3, 2019

I'm going to merge this and add a unit test.

@simonw simonw merged commit d555baf into simonw:master May 3, 2019
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simonw commented May 3, 2019

Demo here: https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/binary_data

I slightly tweaked the copy:

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