data.yaml from existing data¶

In pre-existing projects, you may already have a data directory populated with various files and organized in different subdirectories. Instead of manually writing down all file paths in a conf/data.yaml, you can use:

bluprint index data conf/data.yaml

which recursively indexes a data/ directory in your current path and saves the output into conf/data.yaml. For example, if the data directory has the following structure:

data
├── dir1
│   ├── dir1a
│   │   ├── file_1.txt
│   │   ├── file.1.txt
│   │   └── file2.txt
│   ├── .skipme
│   └── file3.txt
├── dir2
│   └── file4.txt
└── file5.txt

conf/data.yaml will look like this:

dir1:
    dir1a:
        file_1: dir1/dir1a/file.1.txt
        file2: dir1/dir1a/file2.txt
        file_1_txt: dir1/dir1a/file_1.txt
    file3: dir1/file3.txt
dir2:
    file4: dir2/file4.txt
file5: file5.txt

with paths listed relative to the data/ directory.