XMMPointed download method causes a FileNotFoundError

[jessicapilling]

When using XMMPointed.download() a filenotfound error is raised.

This occurs right after the download has happened, as it is trying to unzip a tarfile that doesnt exist.

I found out that the astroquery module will only download the file into the current working directory, even when you provide an absolute path the 'filename' argument. So this error will occur if you arent running DAXA from the directory where you want to download the data to.

eg.
AQXMMNewton.download_data(observation_id='0810244301', level='ODF', filename='/Users/jp735/Desktop/xmm_pointed_raw/0810244301')

will not download to '/Users/jp735/Desktop/xmm_pointed_raw/'

it will download 0810244301.tar.gz to the current working directory.

[DavidT3]

Okay I didn't know about this! My main question is why would this be causing a problem now when it never has before? And what was it doing before, just downloading the tar into the same directory as the notebook/script, and then decompressing it into the correct place?

[jessicapilling]

that is what I really cant figure out. I have no idea why this problem has only just appeared now.

[DavidT3]

Remind me how/why we first found out about this? Could you reproduce the problem?

It is possible a different version of AstroQuery changed the behaviour here, that would be one reason.

[jessicapilling]

Joe found it when he was trying to set up XGA a couple of weeks ago.

I could recreate it.

My version of astroquery was the same version listed the requirements.txt, so thats why I cant figure out why this issue has just appeared recently.

[DavidT3]

I'm confused about this - I can't recreate it with my current DAXA dev install, but clearly there is no harm in what you've added and it fixes the problem you could reproduce, so let's just be happy you fixed it I guess :')