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This project is based on https://github.com/kuleuven/mango-ingest an makes use of https://github.com/kuleuven/mango-mdschema in update_metadata.py

Upload data and folder structure to Mango, then add metadata using metadata schemas.

Purpose

ManGO ingest is a lightweight tool to monitor a local directory for file changes and ingest (part of) them into iRODS. There is no need for cronjobs as it is based on python watchdog which starts its own threads for continous operations.

The main purpose it to be an easy entry point for ingestion of files into iRODS, from where possibly a ManGO Flow task will pick up and handle further processing

Current state of supported platforms: beta software

The initial development is focusing on Linux, but the target platforms are also including Windows and Mac OS. It may or may not work for you (yet), please use the issue tracker to report on your findings/use cases and more..

$ mango_ingest --help

Authentication

Authentication is done by creating an iRODSSession from a configuration file either as specified by the environment variable IRODS_ENVIRONMENT_FILE or with a fallback to the current user ~/.irods/irods_environment.json.

Usage

mango_ingest [OPTIONS] [COMMAND [OPTIONS] [ARGS]]

If it detects a new file creation, the corresponding file is inspected through a white list (glob pattern and/or regular expression list) and if any of those match, it is uploaded to the specified path in iRODS/ManGO

Ignore patterns --ignore-glob and regular expressions --ignore are evaluated before any --glob and/or --regex

CUSTOM FILTERS

Custom filters can be specified too with --custom-filter, if they are resolvable with a dynamic import. The parameter is a string defining the name of the module nf function in the form <module>.<function> and that functions takes as the first positional parameter the pathlib.Path parameter of the file to validate, followed by an optional set of kwargs parameters. See also the option --filter-kwargs which accepts a dict/json string.

METADATA

In addition, there are a number of ways to add metadata on the fly. A few builtin functions cover the case for some rather obvious ones like metadata that is included in the path --metadata-path or shorter --md-path and file system properties such as modified time --metadata-mtime and symlink information

You can also add your custom handler much in the same way as you can add custom filters, see --help and the --metadata-handler option. An example is also included in doc/examples/extract_metadata.py which relies on the exiftool executable and corresponding Python module.

ENVIRONTMENT VARIABLES

All parameters can also be set via environment variables using their long name, uppercased and prefixed with MANGO_ . For example

  `export MANGO_DESTINATION="/zone/home/project/ingest" `

is the same as specifying the command line option

  `mango_ingest --destination="/zone/home/project/ingest" `

CONFIGURATION FILE

Besides command line options, environment variables, you can also specify a Yaml formatted configuration file through the environment variable MANGO_INGEST_CONFIG. This can hold all or a subset of the command line options. It acts as a "default" setting for each option, and the value specified by the command line option or environment variable takes precedence.

The builtin sub command generate-config will create such a yaml formatted config file for you.

Options:
  -v, --verbose                   Show runtime messages  [default: 0]
  -r, --recursive                 Also watch sub directories
  -p, --path TEXT                 The (local) path to monitor  [default: .]
  -d, --destination TEXT          iRODS destination collection path
  --observer [native|polling]     The observer system to use for getting
                                  changed paths. Defaults to 'polling' which
                                  is recommended for most use cases, but you
                                  can use also 'native' in for linux/mac
                                  filesystems when watching for new files that
                                  are directly written into the
                                  directorypolling is a rather brute force
                                  algorithm, needed for network mounted drives
                                  and windows for example  [default: polling]
  --polling-interval INTEGER      Polling interval in seconds in case the
                                  observer is specified as 'polling'
                                  [default: 5]
  --regex TEXT                    regular expression to match [multiple]
  --glob TEXT                     glob expression to match as a simpler
                                  alternative to --regex [multiple]
  --filter-func TEXT              use an external filter (along regex/glob
                                  patterns), it will be dynamically imported
  --filter-func-kwargs TEXT       A json string that will be parsed as a dict
                                  and injected as kwargs into the filter after
                                  the path
  --ignore TEXT                   regular expression to ignore certain
                                  files/folders [multiple]
  --ignore-glob TEXT              glob patterns to ignore files / folders
                                  [multiple]
  --sync                          Do an initial sync
  --verify-checksum               Verify checksums
  --restart PATH                  Use restart file to retry failed uploads
                                  from a previous run
  --dry-run                       Dry run: do not upload anything, implies
                                  --verbose
  -nw, --no-watch                 Do not start monitoring for future changes,
                                  implies --sync
  --metadata-path, --md-path TEXT
                                  regular expression to extract metadata from
                                  the path [multiple]
  --metadata-mtime, --md-mtime    Add the original modify time as metadata
  --metadata-handler, --md-handler TEXT
                                  a custom PYPON_PATH accessible
                                  module.function to handle metadata
  --metadata-handler-kwargs, --md-handler-kwargs TEXT
                                  kwargs parameters for the metadata-handler
                                  as a json string
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  check-regex      Utilty to test a regular expression against a filename...
  clean            Clean up older (default) or all (-a) result files
  examples         Examples
  generate-config  Generate a YAML config template
  show             Show parameter and values as would be used given the...