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CatalogListInstruments v1

CatalogListInstruments dialog.

Summary

Lists the name of instruments from all catalogs or a specific catalog based on session information.

See Also

CatalogListInvestigationTypes

Properties

Name	Direction	Type	Default	Description
Session	Input	string		The session information of the catalog to use.
InstrumentList	Output	str list		A list containing instrument names.

Description

Obtains a list of all instruments for active (logged in) catalogs by default. If a session is specified, then the instruments for that session will be returned.

Usage

Example - obtaining instrument names from current active catalogs.

# Assuming you have previously logged into the ISIS catalog.
instruments = CatalogListInstruments()

# How many instruments are at ISIS?
print("The number of instruments at ISIS is: {}".format(len(instruments)))

for instrument in instruments:
    print("Instrument name is: {}".format(instrument))

# Verify that the instrument belongs to ISIS.
instrument = instruments[0]
print("The facility of instrument {} is: {}".format(instrument, ConfigService.getInstrument(instrument).facility()))

Output:

The number of instruments at ISIS is: 38

Instrument name is: ALF
...
Instrument name is: WISH

The facility of instrument ALF is: ISIS

Categories: AlgorithmIndex | DataHandling\Catalog

Source

C++ header: CatalogListInstruments.h

C++ source: CatalogListInstruments.cpp