[Midas] Using pydas to identify bitstream location

[Zach Mullen]

Hi Brian,

The location of a bitstream on the server's filesystem is known only to the
server, it isn't exposed in the API in any way. As such, it wouldn't be
possible to know its server-side path using pydas. Out of curiosity, what's
your use case where you would want to know that information?

Thanks,

Zach


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 6:49 PM, BRIAN E CHAPMAN <Brian.Chapman at utah.edu>wrote:

>   Hello Midas World,
>
>  In 2012 Patrick posted the following code snippet to identify the
> location of a bitstream in the file system. Can the equivalent be done in
> pydas?
>
>  Mona,
>
> First, a bit about how items correspond to files. Items are made up of revisions. Most items contain one revision (the head or latest revision). Within each revision are bitstreams. These bitstreams are analogous to the files on the file system. With all that in mind, the following code should get you what you want (I'm going to assume the item ID is in a variable called, appropriately, $itemId.):
>
> // Load our models
> $ItemModel = MidasLoader::loadModel('Item');
> $ItemRevisionModel = MidasLoader::loadModel('ItemRevision');
> $BitstreamModel = MidasLoader::loadModel('Bitstream');
>
> // Get the item and its last revision from the time id
> $itemDao = $ItemModel->load($itemId);
> $lastRevisionDao = $ItemModel->getLastRevision($itemDao);
>
> // loop through the bitstreams and print their paths
> foreach($lastRevisionDao->getBitstreams() as $bitstreamDao)
>   {
>   print($bitstreamDao->getPath());
>   }
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick Reynolds
> Technical Leader
> Kitware, Inc.919 869 8848
>
>
>  Brian E. Chapman, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Department of Radiology
> University of Utah
>
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Zach Mullen
R & D Engineer
Kitware Inc.
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