deriva-py

Python APIs and CLIs (Command-Line Interfaces) for the DERIVA platform.

Installing

This project is mostly in an early development phase. The master branch is expect to be stable and usable at every commit. The APIs and CLIs may change in backward-incompatible ways, so if you depend on an interface you should remember the GIT commit number.

At this time, we recommend installing from source, which can be accomplished with the pip utility.

If you have root access and wish to install into your system Python directory, use the following command:

$ sudo pip install git+https://github.com/informatics-isi-edu/deriva-py.git

Otherwise, it is recommended that you install into your user directory using the following command:

$ pip install --user git+https://github.com/informatics-isi-edu/deriva-py.git

APIs

The APIs include:

• low-level ERMrest interface (see ErmrestCatalog)
• low-level Hatrac interface (see HatracStore)
• higher-level ERMrest catalog configuration (see CatalogConfig)
• higher-level ERMrest "data path" (see documentation and tutorials)

CLIs

The CLIs include:

• deriva-acl-config: a command-line ERMrest ACL configuration utility (see documentation)
• deriva-hatrac-cli: a command-line Hatrac client (see documentation)
• deriva-download-cli: a command-line utility for batch export and download of tabular data from ERMrest and objects from Hatrac (see documentation)
• deriva-upload-cli: a command-line data upload and metadata update utility