Source code for voeparse.convenience

"""Convenience routines for common actions on VOEvent objects"""

from __future__ import absolute_import
import datetime
import lxml
from voeparse.misc import (Param, Group, Reference, Inference, Position2D, 
                           Citation)
[docs]def pull_astro_coords(voevent): """Extracts the `AstroCoords` from the first `WhereWhen.ObservationLocation`. Args: voevent (:class:`voeparse.voevent.Voevent`): Root node of the VOevent etree. Returns: :py:class:`.Position2D`: The position defined by the first ObservationLocation element under the WhereWhen section. """ ac = voevent.WhereWhen.ObsDataLocation.ObservationLocation.AstroCoords ac_sys = voevent.WhereWhen.ObsDataLocation.ObservationLocation.AstroCoordSystem sys = ac_sys.attrib['id'] try: assert ac.Position2D.Name1 == 'RA' and ac.Position2D.Name2 == 'Dec' posn = Position2D(ra=float(ac.Position2D.Value2.C1), dec=float(ac.Position2D.Value2.C2), err=float(ac.Position2D.Error2Radius), units=ac.Position2D.attrib['unit'], system=sys) except AttributeError: raise ValueError("Unrecognised AstroCoords type") return posn
[docs]def pull_params(voevent): """Attempts to load the `What` section of a voevent as a nested dictionary. Args: voevent (:class:`voeparse.voevent.Voevent`): Root node of the VOevent etree. Returns: Nested dict: Mapping of ``Group->Param->Attribs``. Access like so:: foo_param_val = what_dict['GroupName']['ParamName']['value'] .. note:: Parameters without a group are indexed under the key 'None' - otherwise, we might get name-clashes between `params` and `groups` (unlikely but possible) so for ungrouped Params you'll need something like:: what_dict[None]['ParamName']['value'] """ result = {} w = voevent.What if w.countchildren() == 0: return result toplevel_params = {} result[None] = toplevel_params if hasattr(voevent.What, 'Param'): for p in voevent.What.Param: toplevel_params[p.attrib['name']] = p.attrib if hasattr(voevent.What, 'Group'): for g in voevent.What.Group: g_params = {} result[g.attrib['name']] = g_params for p in g.Param: g_params[p.attrib['name']] = p.attrib return result
[docs]def pull_isotime(voevent): """Extract the event time from the WhereWhen section, if present. Accesses the first `WhereWhere.ObsDataLocation.ObservationLocation` element and returns the AstroCoords.Time.TimeInstant.ISOTime element, converted to a datetime. Args: voevent (:class:`voeparse.voevent.Voevent`): Root node of the VOevent etree. Returns: :class:`datetime.datetime`: Specifically, we return a standard library datetime object, i.e. one that is **timezone-naive** (that is, agnostic about its timezone, see python docs). This avoids an added dependency on pytz. The details of the reference system for time and space are provided in the AstroCoords object, but typically time reference is UTC. """ try: ol = voevent.WhereWhen.ObsDataLocation.ObservationLocation isotime_str = str(ol.AstroCoords.Time.TimeInstant.ISOTime) return datetime.datetime.strptime(isotime_str, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f") except AttributeError: return None
[docs]def prettystr(subtree): """Print an element tree with nice indentation. Prettyprinting a whole VOEvent often doesn't seem to work, probably for issues relating to whitespace cf. http://lxml.de/FAQ.html#why-doesn-t-the-pretty-print-option-reformat-my-xml-output This function is a quick workaround for prettyprinting a subsection of a VOEvent, for easier desk-checking. Args: subtree(lxml.etree): A node in the VOEvent element tree. Returns: string: Prettyprinted string representation of the raw XML. """ lxml.objectify.deannotate(subtree) lxml.etree.cleanup_namespaces(subtree) return lxml.etree.tostring(subtree, pretty_print=True)