LoadNexusProcessed v1¶

LoadNexusProcessed dialog.

Table of Contents

Summary
Properties
Description
- Time series data
- Child algorithms used
Usage
Source

Summary ¶

The LoadNexusProcessed algorithm will read the given Nexus Processed data file containing a Mantid Workspace. The data is placed in the named workspace. LoadNexusProcessed may be invoked by LoadNexus if it is given a Nexus file of this type.

Properties ¶

Name	Direction	Type	Default	Description
Filename	Input	string	Mandatory	The name of the Nexus file to read, as a full or relative path. Allowed extensions: [‘.nxs’, ‘.nx5’, ‘.xml’]
OutputWorkspace	Output	Workspace	Mandatory	The name of the workspace to be created as the output of the algorithm. A workspace of this name will be created and stored in the Analysis Data Service. For multiperiod files, one workspace may be generated for each period. Currently only one workspace can be saved at a time so multiperiod Mantid files are not generated.
SpectrumMin	Input	number	1	Number of first spectrum to read.
SpectrumMax	Input	number	Optional	Number of last spectrum to read.
SpectrumList	Input	int list		List of spectrum numbers to read.
EntryNumber	Input	number	0	0 indicates that every entry is loaded, into a separate workspace within a group. A positive number identifies one entry to be loaded, into one worskspace
LoadHistory	Input	boolean	True	If true, the workspace history will be loaded
FastMultiPeriod	Input	boolean	True	For multiperiod workspaces. Copy instrument, parameter and x-data rather than loading it directly for each workspace. Y, E and log information is always loaded.

Description ¶

The algorithm LoadNexusProcessed will read a Nexus data file created by SaveNexusProcessed v1 and place the data into the named workspace. The file name can be an absolute or relative path and should have the extension .nxs, .nx5 or .xml. Warning - using XML format can be extremely slow for large data sets and generate very large files.

The optional parameters can be used to control which spectra are loaded into the workspace. If SpectrumMin and SpectrumMax are given, then only that range to data will be loaded. A specific list of spectra to load can also be given (SpectrumList). Filtering of spectra is supported when loading into workspaces of type Workspace2Ds and also EventWorkspaces.

A Mantid Nexus file may contain several workspace entries each labelled with an integer starting at 1. By default the highest number workspace is read, earlier ones can be accessed by setting the EntryNumber.

If the saved data has a reference to an XML file defining instrument geometry this will be read.

Time series data ¶

The log data in the Nexus file (NX_LOG sections) is loaded as TimeSeriesProperty data within the workspace. Time is stored as seconds from the Unix epoch. Only floating point logs are stored and loaded at present.

Child algorithms used ¶

The Child Algorithms used by LoadMuonNexus are:

LoadInstrument - this algorithm looks for an XML description of the instrument and if found reads it.

Usage ¶

Example

import os

#Create an absolute path by joining the proposed filename to a directory
#os.path.expanduser("~") used in this case returns the home directory of the current user
savePath = os.path.expanduser("~")
wsPath = os.path.join(savePath, "LoadNexusProcessedTest.nxs")

ws = CreateSampleWorkspace(WorkspaceType="Histogram", NumBanks=2, BankPixelWidth=1, BinWidth=10, Xmax=50)
SaveNexusProcessed(ws, wsPath)

wsOutput = LoadNexusProcessed(wsPath)

print CheckWorkspacesMatch(ws,wsOutput, CheckInstrument=False)

os.remove(wsPath)