pathtraits: Annotate files and directories

Create a YAML file "meta.yml" inside a directory to annotate all files in that directory with any attributes. The data will be collected in a SQLite database to query and visualize.

Get Started

Pathtraits are attributes of files and directories stores in YAML side car files. Pathtraits of parent directories are inherited for a given path and can be overwritten by those of child directories. Pathtraits can be either of type string, int, or real.

# install
python -m pip install pathtraits

# create some test data
echo "test" > foo.txt
echo "test: true" > foo.txt.yml

# create database
pathtraits batch .

# query traits
pathtraits get foo.txt

Configuration

Database path

The databse is being created in your home directory by default at "~/.pathtraits.db". One can change this by setting the environmental variable PATHTRAITS_DB_PATH to any other path with write permssions if needed.

Developing

• use Pylint
• normalize data base to 3NF to store each new trait in a new table, allowing sparse traits