[ome-devel] Calling the importer from Python

[Aleksandra Tarkowska (Staff)]

Hi Niko,

I am affraid that is the way to do it. Please see similar thread

http://lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk/pipermail/ome-devel/2014-September/002982.html


Kind regards
Ola

> On 11 May 2015, at 21:45, Niko Ehrenfeuchter <nikolaus.ehrenfeuchter at unibas.ch> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering what the best method for calling the importer from within a Python script might be?
>
> I've looked at uploadFile() from omero.util.script_utils, but in my understanding that's not for images - or am I wrong here?
>
> Delusively, the most simple thing would be to use omero.plugins.import, but as far as I can see the plugins are not meant as modules to be imported in other Python scripts but rather for extending the OMERO command line interface.
>
> Of course I could use popen() to call the "real" command line interface directly, but it feels a bit stupid calling a Python script from another one where all the OMERO stuff has already been set up.
>
> My approach now would be to use the CLI class from omero.cli, but I wanted to know if there is a better way that I am overlooking?
>
> Many Thanks,
> ~Niko
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