Batch importing data in Addok

Import format

By default, Addok expect a line delimited JSON stream as input file. This means one JSON object per line. Optionally, it's possible to use msgpack. For that, install msgpack-python and make sure your data files extension is .msgpack.

Keys

The expected keys are the ones declared in the FIELDS attribute of your configuration, plus some special cases:

  • type is expected even if not declared as index field
  • importance is expected; must be a float between 0 and 1
  • _id is optional and for internal use only, if not present a hashid will be generated; note that shorter keys lead to smaller memory consumption on the Redis side
  • lat and lon are expected
  • housenumbers has a special format: {number: {lat: yyy, lon: xxx}} (optionally you can add any custom attribute)

Each value can be either a unique value or a list of values. In the latter case, the first value will be considered as the active one (for example to display the label), the optional other ones are considered as aliases. They will be indexed and searchable though.

Example

{"id": "091220245G","type": "street","name": "Chemin du Capitany","postcode": "09000","lat": "42.985755","lon": "1.620815","city": "Foix","departement": "Ariège", "region": "Midi-Pyrénées","importance": 0.4330 ,"housenumbers":{"13": {"lat": 42.984811,"lon": 1.620876},"15": {"lat": 42.984753,"lon": 1.620853},"39": {"lat": 42.983546,"lon": 1.621076},"8": {"lat": 42.985458,"lon": 1.621405},"23": {"lat": 42.984555,"lon": 1.620902},"29": {"lat": 42.984316,"lon": 1.620935},"37": {"lat": 42.983634,"lon": 1.621068},"19": {"lat": 42.984621,"lon": 1.620882},"33": {"lat": 42.983977,"lon": 1.621015},"6": {"lat": 42.985452,"lon": 1.621171},"25": {"lat": 42.984532,"lon": 1.620908},"21": {"lat": 42.984577,"lon": 1.620895},"1": {"lat": 42.986563,"lon": 1.620000},"11bis": {"lat": 42.985138,"lon": 1.621094},"17": {"lat": 42.984682,"lon": 1.620868},"3": {"lat": 42.986394,"lon": 1.620150}}}
{"id": "091220259X","type": "street","name": "Avenue du Cardié","postcode": "09000","lat": "42.964308","lon": "1.595493","city": "Foix","departement": "Ariège", "region": "Midi-Pyrénées","importance": 0.4447 ,"housenumbers":{"13": {"lat": 42.964574,"lon": 1.595418},"19": {"lat": 42.964575,"lon": 1.595455},"15": {"lat": 42.964575,"lon": 1.595431},"6": {"lat": 42.964263,"lon": 1.595222},"1bis": {"lat": 42.964322,"lon": 1.596193},"17": {"lat": 42.964575,"lon": 1.595443},"23": {"lat": 42.964298,"lon": 1.594952},"27": {"lat": 42.964245,"lon": 1.594844},"1": {"lat": 42.964357,"lon": 1.596028},"2bis": {"lat": 42.964245,"lon": 1.596177},"4": {"lat": 42.964279,"lon": 1.595486},"2": {"lat": 42.964291,"lon": 1.595999},"8": {"lat": 42.964250,"lon": 1.595043},"5": {"lat": 42.964572,"lon": 1.595620},"33": {"lat": 42.963863,"lon": 1.594884},"9": {"lat": 42.964574,"lon": 1.595389},"31": {"lat": 42.964156,"lon": 1.594847},"21": {"lat": 42.964314,"lon": 1.595171},"11": {"lat": 42.964574,"lon": 1.595406},"7": {"lat": 42.964342,"lon": 1.595551},"35": {"lat": 42.963611,"lon": 1.594916},"3": {"lat": 42.964366,"lon": 1.595803},"25": {"lat": 42.964272,"lon": 1.594840}}}

Update and delete

If you want to manage diffs, you can add an _action key with one of the following values:

  • update: will first deindex document
  • delete: will deindex document; only key id is required then

Tuning Redis

Make sure to check the Redis tuning tips.

Command line

To run the actual import:

addok batch path/to/file.sjson

Then you need to index ngrams:

addok ngrams

Example with BANO

  1. Download BANO data and uncompress it

  2. Run batch command:

    addok batch path/to/full.sjson

  3. Index edge ngrams:

    addok ngrams

If you only want a subset of the data (the whole BANO dataset requires 20GB of RAM), you can extract it from full file with a command like:

sed -n 's/"Île-de-France"/&/p' path/to/full.sjson > idf.sjson

Import from PostgreSQL

See addok-psql plugin.

Read from stdin

import command can read from stdin, for example:

$ addok batch < ~/Data/geo/ban/communes-context.json

Or:

$ less ~/Data/geo/ban/communes-context.json | addok batch

More options

Run addok --help to see the available options.