DANDI Client

This project is under heavy development. Beware of hidden and disclosed issues and Work-in-Progress (WiP) (again might be hidden or public).

Installation

At the moment DANDI client releases are available from PyPI. You could install them in your Python (native, virtualenv, or conda) environment via

pip install dandi

dandi tool

This package provides a dandi command line utility with a basic interface which should assist you in preparing and uploading your data to and/or obtaining data from the http://dandiarchive.org:

$> dandi
Usage: dandi [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  A client to support interactions with DANDI archive
  (http://dandiarchive.org).

  To see help for a specific command, run

      dandi COMMAND --help

  e.g. dandi upload --help

Options:
  --version
  -l, --log-level [DEBUG|INFO|WARNING|ERROR|CRITICAL]
                                  Log level name  [default: INFO]
  --pdb                           Fall into pdb if errors out
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  download  Download a file or entire folder from DANDI
  ls        List .nwb files and dandisets metadata.
  organize  (Re)organize files according to the metadata.
  register  Register a new dandiset in the DANDI archive
  upload    Upload dandiset (files) to DANDI archive.
  validate  Validate files for NWB (and DANDI) compliance.

Each of the commands has a set of options to alter their behavior. Please run dandi COMMAND --help to get more information, e.g.

$> dandi ls --help
Usage: dandi ls [OPTIONS] [PATHS]...

  List .nwb files metadata

Options:
  -F, --fields TEXT               Comma-separated list of fields to display.
                                  An empty value to trigger a list of
                                  available fields to be printed out
  -f, --format [auto|pyout|json|json_pp|yaml]
                                  Choose the format/frontend for output. If
                                  'auto', 'pyout' will be used in case of
                                  multiple files, and 'yaml' for a single
                                  file.
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

See DANDI Handbook for examples on how to use this client in various use cases.

Development/contributing

Please see DEVELOPMENT.md file.

3rd party components included

dandi/support/generatorify.py

From https://github.com/eric-wieser/generatorify, as of 7bd759ecf88f836ece6cdbcf7ce1074260c0c5ef Copyright (c) 2019 Eric Wieser, MIT/Expat licensed.

dandi/tests/skip.py

From https://github.com/ReproNim/reproman, as of v0.2.1-40-gf4f026d Copyright (c) 2016-2020 ReproMan Team