This is a basic set of pure-Python iRODS clients.

It is a work in progress at the moment and the ".py" commands don't follow quite the same standards as the officially supported icommands.

In fact, it is possible this might move toward an irods CLI type of interface.

The aim is eventually that these commands could serve as a substitute for the icommands on platforms where their installation is infeasible (such as on Windows).

The following two commands can be used together to achieve what is normally done with iinit , ie. the creation of an environment file and a native authentication under the ~/.irods directory:

• iHostinit.py
• iPwinit.py

The i*.py commands have been tested manually on native (non-WSL) Windows 10 with the following python-irodsclient development branch and appear to work fine.

• git (with which to clone this repository)
• PRC installed
  • can install with pip install python-irodsclient
• a running irods server as the target host/port/user/zone to be accessed. (Or ... use the first part of the demo below to download and run your own local one in docker.)

• If access to a running iRODS instance is unavailable, run one via docker:

  $ docker pull dwmoore/irods_pkg_postgres:latest
  $ docker run -it --name irods_test --hostname "$(hostname)" \
    -p 1247:1247 -p 20000-20199:20000-20199 \
    dwmoore/irods_pkg_postgres:latest
  $ docker exec irods_test /start_postgresql_and_irods.sh
  

• Then download these commands to the host, and access iRODS via the Python client commands.

  $ git clone https://github.com/d-w-moore/irods-python-icommands
  $ cd irods-python-icommands
  $ ./iHostinit.py -h "$(hostname)" -z tempZone -u rods -p 1247 
  $ ./iPwinit.py
  irods password -> #### (silent entry)
  $ ./iLs.py
  C /tempZone/home/rods
  $ ./iMkdir.py /tempZone/home/rods/subcoll
  $ ./iLs.py -r /tempZone/home/rods
  C /tempZone/home/rods
  C /tempZone/home/rods/subcoll
  $ echo "Hello" > World
  $ ./iPut.py World /tempZone/home/rods/World.dat
  $ ./iGet.py World.dat
  $ diff World.dat World