Now maintained by iRODS at irods/python-irodsclient

For version 0.5.0, see https://github.com/irods/python-irodsclient/

Or, install via GitHub:

pip install git+git://github.com/irods/python-irodsclient.git

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python-irodsclient - version 0.4.0

iRODS is an open-source distributed filesystem manager. This a client API implemented in python.

This project should be considered pre-alpha. Here's what works:

• Establish a connection to iRODS, authenticaate
• Implement basic Gen Queries (select columns and filtering)
• Support more advanced Gen Queries with limits, offsets, and aggregations
• Query the collections and data objects within a collection
• Support read, write, and seek operations for files
• Delete data objects
• Create collections
• Delete collections
• Rename data objects
• Rename collections
• Query metadata for collections and data objects
• Add, edit, remove metadata
• Replicate data objects to different resource servers
• Connection pool management
• Implement gen query result sets as lazy queries
• Return empty result sets when CAT_NO_ROWS_FOUND is raised
• Manage permissions
• Manage users and groups
• Manage zones
• Manage resources

Installation

pycommands requires Python 2.7. Installation with pip is easy!

pip install git+git://github.com/iPlantCollaborativeOpenSource/pycommands.git

Establishing a connection

>>> from irods.session import iRODSSession
>>> sess = iRODSSession(host='localhost', port=1247, user='rods', password='rods', zone='tempZone')

If you're an administrator acting on behalf of another user:

>>> from irods.session import iRODSSession
>>> sess = iRODSSession(host='localhost', port=1247, user='rods', password='rods', zone='tempZone', 
           client_user='another_user', client_zone='another_zone')

If no client_zone is provided, the zone parameter is used in its place.

Working with collections

>>> coll = sess.collections.get("/tempZone/home/rods")

>>> coll.id
45798

>>> coll.path
/tempZone/home/rods

>>> for col in coll.subcollections:
>>>   print col
<iRODSCollection /tempZone/home/rods/subcol1>
<iRODSCollection /tempZone/home/rods/subcol2>

>>> for obj in coll.data_objects:
>>>   print obj
<iRODSDataObject /tempZone/home/rods/file.txt>
<iRODSDataObject /tempZone/home/rods/file2.txt>

Create a new collection:

>>> coll = sess.collections.create("/tempZone/home/rods/testdir")
>>> coll.id
45799

Working with data objects (files)

Create a new data object:

>>> obj = sess.data_objects.create("/tempZone/home/rods/test1")
<iRODSDataObject /tempZone/home/rods/test1>

Get an existing data object:

>>> obj = sess.data_objects.get("/tempZone/home/rods/test1")
>>> obj.id
12345

>>> obj.name
test1
>>> obj.collection
<iRODSCollection /tempZone/home/rods>

Reading and writing files

pycommands provides file-like objects for reading and writing files

>>> obj = sess.data_objects.get("/tempZone/home/rods/test1")
>>> with obj.open('r+') as f:
...   f.write('foo\nbar\n')
...   f.seek(0,0)
...   for line in f:
...      print line
...
foo
bar

Working with metadata

>>> obj = sess.data_objects.get("/tempZone/home/rods/test1")
>>> print obj.metadata.items()
[]

>>> obj.metadata.add('key1', 'value1', 'units1')
>>> obj.metadata.add('key1', 'value2')
>>> obj.metadata.add('key2', 'value3')
>>> print obj.metadata.items()
[<iRODSMeta (key1, value1, units1, 10014)>, <iRODSMeta (key2, value3, None, 10017)>, 
<iRODSMeta (key1, value2, None, 10020)>]

>>> print obj.metadata.get_all('key1')
[<iRODSMeta (key1, value1, units1, 10014)>, <iRODSMeta (key1, value2, None, 10020)>]

>>> print obj.metadata.get_one('key2')
<iRODSMeta (key2, value3, None, 10017)>

>>> obj.metadata.remove('key1', 'value1', 'units1')
>>> print obj.metadata.items()
[<iRODSMeta (key2, value3, None, 10017)>, <iRODSMeta (key1, value2, None, 10020)>]

Performing general queries

>>> from irods.session import iRODSSession
>>> from irods.models import Collection, User, DataObject
>>> sess = iRODSSession(host='localhost', port=1247, user='rods', password='rods', zone='tempZone')
>>> results = sess.query(DataObject.id, DataObject.name, DataObject.size, \
User.id, User.name, Collection.name).all()
>>> print results
+---------+-----------+-----------+---------------+--------------------------------+-----------+
| USER_ID | USER_NAME | D_DATA_ID | DATA_NAME     | COLL_NAME                      | DATA_SIZE |
+---------+-----------+-----------+---------------+--------------------------------+-----------+
| 10007   | rods      | 10012     | runDoxygen.rb | /tempZone/home/rods            | 5890      |
| 10007   | rods      | 10146     | test1         | /tempZone/home/rods            | 0         |
| 10007   | rods      | 10147     | test2         | /tempZone/home/rods            | 0         |
| 10007   | rods      | 10148     | test3         | /tempZone/home/rods            | 8         |
| 10007   | rods      | 10153     | test5         | /tempZone/home/rods            | 0         |
| 10007   | rods      | 10154     | test6         | /tempZone/home/rods            | 8         |
| 10007   | rods      | 10049     | .gitignore    | /tempZone/home/rods/pycommands | 12        |
| 10007   | rods      | 10054     | README.md     | /tempZone/home/rods/pycommands | 3795      |
| 10007   | rods      | 10052     | coll_test.py  | /tempZone/home/rods/pycommands | 658       |
| 10007   | rods      | 10014     | file_test.py  | /tempZone/home/rods/pycommands | 465       |
+---------+-----------+-----------+---------------+--------------------------------+-----------+