FEATURE: Load a crate from a (json) Object

[ptsefton]

Unless I misunderstand this library can only read crates from disk. It would be very useful to be able to instantiate the library with an object (that would serialise in JSON to an RO-Crate Metadata Document). Eg if I have fetched RO-Crate metadata from an API.

[simleo]

You mean a Python dictionary, I guess. It would be able to point only to web-based data entities

[ptsefton]

It can point to anything as an abstract structure including file paths -- but these not exist for some purposes eg writing a validator that might run in a context other than the place where the files are.

But yes, with an API at the moment if you fetch an RO-Crate metadata document it has to be saved before the library can use it, which is not optimal -- loading raw JSON or a python dictionary structure would be preferable.

[simleo]

Implemented in #183. The metadata can point to nonexistent files or directories, the behavior when writing the crate is described in #136.

[ptsefton]

Thanks @simleo - this does not appear to be released yet -- would love to use it

[simleo]

I have just released version 0.11.0