CatalogGetDataFiles-v1.rst

Description

This algorithm retrieves the information of the datafiles associated to an investigation, and saves the results to a workspace.

Usage

Example - obtain datafile information for all datafiles in a given ICAT investigation.

# Assumes you have logged in and stored the session information that is
# returned from CatalogLogin() inside the session variable.
datafiles = CatalogGetDataFiles(InvestigationId = '1390028', Session = session.getPropertyValue("Session"))

# Verify that we have any datafiles in the returned workspace.
print "The number of datafiles in this investigation is: " + str(len(datafiles))

# Output the ID of the datafiles related to the given investigation.
for row in datafiles:
    print "A datafile with id '" + row['Id'] + "' exists."

Output:

The number of datafiles in this investigation is: 22

A datafile with id '33121358' exists.
...
A datafile with id '33121573' exists.