PathManager (session.path)

class vsc_irods.manager.path_manager.PathManager(session)

A class dealing with paths on the iRODS file system

get_irods_home()

Returns the path to the iRODS “home” directory, which is e.g. used to expand ‘~/’ in search patterns.

get_irods_cwd()

Returns the current workding directory on iRODS, which is e.g. used to expand ‘.’ in search patterns.

ichdir(path, verbose=False)

Changes the current working directory on iRODS.

Arguments:

path: str

The (absolute or relative) path to which the iRODS current workding directory for this session should be changed.

verbose: bool (default: False)

Whether to print more output

get_absolute_irods_path(path)

Returns the corresponding absolute path on the iRODS server

imkdir(path, parents=False, verbose=False, **options)

Creates a collection on the iRODS file system

Arguments:

path: str

The (absolute or relative) collection path to be created

parents: bool (default: False)

Whether to also create missing parent collections, and not to raise an error when a collection already exists

verbose: bool (default: False)

Whether to print more output

options: (any remaining keywords arguments)

Additional options to be passed on to PRC’s collections.create()