[ome-devel] Import again...

[Stefan Frank]

Hi folks,

we're still struggling with the import of images and are pursuing 
different paths for importing files - apart from hacking the 
perl-import-scripts(glad to have put this on josh's list, not mine), I 
went through the different approaches using the XML-RPC from java: As 
far as I can see, we have several duplicate Codebases here that do (part 
of) the Job: We have the TestImport from OME-JAVA, there is the code in 
Visbio3 that started out with copying TestImport-Code and I even 
remember to have seen first Steps towards an import from inside Shoola.

On the 
docs-site(http://www.openmicroscopy.org/system-admin/import.html), there 
is already a marriage between visbio and the Import-Module announced - 
what is the state of this marriage? VisBio is pretty cool on the import- 
side, with a clever way of determining the files that belong together, 
however, we need a Command-Line-Interface, preferably tweakable via 
parameters to set the z/time/channel-patterns. We'd like to put this 
into a cron-job and upload files from a given directory over night. Or 
is this already possible with Visbio3?!

Is anybody already doing this?! I do not want to add another code-base, 
but I think refactoring the TestImport.java from OME-JAVA, adding cli to 
it,  and then taking this together with the VisBio-Classes would do the 
trick - maybe we can come up with classes that can be used inside Shoola 
for the import, too?!

cheers
stefan

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Stefan Frank
iBioS - Intelligent BioInformatics Systems
http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/ibios
DKFZ - German Cancer Research Center
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