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CatalogGetDataFiles v1

Summary

Obtains information of the datafiles associated to a specific investigation.

See Also

CatalogDownloadDataFiles, CatalogGetDataSets, CatalogLogin, ISISJournalGetExperimentRuns

Properties

Name	Direction	Type	Default	Description
InvestigationId	Input	string	Mandatory	ID of the selected investigation
Session	Input	string		The session information of the catalog to use.
OutputWorkspace	Output	TableWorkspace	Mandatory	The name of the workspace to store the data file search details.

Description

This algorithm retrieves the information of the datafiles associated to an investigation, and saves the results to a workspace.

Usage

Example - obtain datafile information for all datafiles in a given ICAT investigation.

# Assumes you have logged in and stored the session information that is
# returned from CatalogLogin() inside the session variable.
datafiles = CatalogGetDataFiles(InvestigationId = '1390028', Session = session.getPropertyValue("Session"))

# Verify that we have any datafiles in the returned workspace.
print("The number of datafiles in this investigation is: {}".format(len(datafiles)))

# Output the ID of the datafiles related to the given investigation.
for row in datafiles:
    print("A datafile with id '{}' exists.".format(row['Id']))

Output:

The number of datafiles in this investigation is: 22

A datafile with id '33121358' exists.
...
A datafile with id '33121573' exists.

Categories: AlgorithmIndex | DataHandling\Catalog

Source

C++ header: CatalogGetDataFiles.h

C++ source: CatalogGetDataFiles.cpp