Generate Charts from Views?

[cosbgn]

I'm going through the documentation but I'm a bit confused on one thing. On all the examples charts are generated from data on models.

I'm using an API (in my views.py) to retrieve data and I would like to generate charts on the fly without the need to save this data to my db. Is this possible? Any example that uses data from the views?

Thanks

[atodorov]

@cosbgn can you be more descriptive. How do you store the data inside the view? Is it in a list or something else? If possible give me an example, can be pseudo-code.

[cosbgn]

Hi @atodorov thanks for the quick response. So for example one chart I would like to have is a simple line chart with sessions (Y-axis) and date (X-axis). The API gives me data back in this format: https://gist.github.com/Cosbgn/526f5fd7150c4065b9fa4e54909ebb78

My first approach is to have several functions in my views.py file that get the data and then return the template loading multiple charts, but maybe I'm doing things wrong. Should I save this in my db? I wanted to avoid that because I'm dealing with a lot of data for each user and I might overcomplicate things. Thanks

[cosbgn]

I concluded that the best way is to save data in my db and use that to load charts. Thanks.

[atodorov]

Duplicate of #21. Not possible at the moment. I've been planning to work on it for quite a while but haven't managed to find the time. Feel free to open a PR or pm me if you'd like this to happen sooner.