def post_experiment(project_id, title, description, start_date, experiment_num = ''):
"""This uses the webservices abstraction of httplib in the interface folder
to post an experiment to NEES
Args:
project_id: NEEShub Project Specific IDs
title: What you want the Experiment Title to be.
description: How you'd like to describe it.
start_date: start date
(experiment_num): Chose experiment number
(RECOMMNDED TO LEAVE BLANK!)
Returns:
string that is the experiment id for the created experiment."""
#Generate form for Experiment Name specification.
name_form = utils.generate_experiment_name_xml(experiment_num)
#Fill out the XML content form.
content = """<Experiment viewable="MEMBERS" type="Structured" >
"""+name_form+"""
<title>"""+title+"""</title>
<ExperimentDomain id="1" />
<status>private</status>
<description>"""+description+"""</description>
<startDate>"""+start_date+"""</startDate>
</Experiment>"""
#Fill out the http header dictionary.
headers = {'Host': httphost,
'Accept': 'application/xml',
'Content-Type': 'application/xml',
'Content-Length': str(len( content )) }
#Generate NEES specific request path.
request = "%s%s/Experiment" % (neeshub_project_path, project_id)
authenticated_request = utils.authenticate_request(request)
response_dictionary = conn.request("POST",authenticated_request, content, headers)
triallocation = response_dictionary['location']
exp_id = utils.find_experiment_id(triallocation)
return exp_id
def post_project(title,
description,
contact_name='',
contact_email='',
start_date='',
fundorg='',
nick_name='',
fund_org='',
fund_org_proj=''):
"""Creates a NEES webservices Project.
Args:
title: What you want the Project Title to be.
description: How you'd like to describe it.
start_date: start date
(experiment_num): Chose experiment number
(RECOMMNDED TO LEAVE BLANK!)
Returns:
string that is the experiment id for the created experiment."""
xml_form = utils.generate_project_title_xml(title,
description,
contact_name,
contact_email,
start_date,
fundorg,
nick_name,
fund_org,
fund_org_proj)
headers = {'Host': httphost,
'Accept':'application/xml',
'Content-Type':'application/xml',
'Content-Length':str(len(xml_form))}
request = "/REST/Project"
authentic_request = utils.authenticate_request(request)
response_dictionary = conn.request('POST',authentic_request,xml_form,headers)
project_location = response_dictionary['location']
prj_id = utils.find_experiment_id(project_location)
return prj_id
