Implement functions for DATABASE and REFPERIOD

[dsvedberg]

Hello,

Planned to fork and try to contribute with a solution to the issue I'm raising, but got stuck. Wanted to implement px_database and px_refperiod respectively.

DATABASE
From what I can see, DATABASE is a non-mandatory, language dependent keyword and should be in table2. However, I see that the keyword metadata has 'table_meta = FALSE'. Does this mean that DATABASE is a "variable-level" keyword? From the file specification I can't see a difference between DATABASE and another table2 keyword, LINK.

REFPERIOD
Probably something along the same lines here. From what I can see, this should be similar to CONTACT, i.e., table-level but indexed by contvariable.

I'm probably just misunderstanding something! Any thoughts to get me started?

[johan-ejstrud]

Hey @dsvedberg, awsome you want to contibute!

I think these are two great keywords to start with, since for both of them I think you can more or less copy existing code, and do some renamings.

Feel free to open a pull request, and then we can look at it. 😊

And I think you are right, both keywords are table_metadata, so they should show table_meta=TRUE.

[dsvedberg]

Great, I'll get back with a pull request ASAP!

[larpSTATGL]

Hi @dsvedberg - happy to see your engagement. Do we know each other? Best regards, Lars

[dsvedberg]

Hello @larpSTATGL, no we don't! I'm a new employee at a swedish agency using PxWeb. We wan't to start use pxmake to simplify our workflows. Thought I could try to contribute on these simple tasks since they would be useful for us!