Datacatalog
Overview
This module provides tools to interface with the Data Catalog (discovery.psi.ch).
Version Numbers
Prior to version 2, each command had it's own version. The pmodule version roughly tracked the datasetIngestor version. However, some pmodules were updated manually with more recent binaries, so in general there is no way to check the versions contained in older pmodules other than running each command and parsing the output.
From v2.2.0 all CLI commands share a common version, and the pmodules will reflect this. The SciCat GUI is still versioned independently, but this is planned to be brought in sync with the CLI and pmodule soon.
Installation
Run ./build <VERSION> to install the latest version. This downloads the
latest versions of the datasetIngestor, datasetRetriever, and datasetArchiver
tools. Note that the downloads are not versioned, so make sure that the current
variant matches the installed binaries.
The scicat_client script is also installed. This is maintained as an anaconda
environment, then symlinked into the datacatalog pmodule. Anaconda hard-codes
the correct python interpreter, so all dependencies should resolve even though
the conda module is not activated. See
Programming/anaconda/2019.07/conda-env-defs/scicat_client for environment
installation details.
SciCat GUI
The SciCat GUI is installed manually to bin. As of 2.2.0, no standard release
cycle is used for the GUI. It should be built from source in the rollout
repo
and manually coppied.
An issue in 2.2.0 and earlier prevents the GUI from running on RHEL 8. This was fixed with a manual wrapper script which produces an error on RHEL 8.
TODO
- The post_prep section of the build script should be removed following fixing #55
- SciCat should be downloaded and installed in the build script