[ome-users] help with custom importer

[Josh Moore]

On Nov 4, 2012, at 10:26 PM, Roy Wollman wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Roy,

> I am trying to write a simple custom importer which is essentially
> a wrap around the linux command line importer. My goal is to make sure that
> projects / dataset exist and create them if not.
> 
> Therefore I am trying figure out how to:
> 1. query omero to:  see if the project / dataset exist, if they do get the
> dataset id.
> 2. if they do not exist, create new ones, link them, and get the datasetid.
> 3. Link the dataset id to the experiment id I got from the image metadata.
> 
> At this point I should be able to parse a call for the importer-cli that
> does everything I want to achieve.
> 
> I got lost in the OMERO api... if I understand correctly, I need to somehow
> ask whether the project / dataset exist using the iQuery service and
> potentially create new in the IContainer api. I couldn't figure out how to
> link my Experiment ID to a dataset.
> 
> I am currently using the matlab api which is easiest for me... the plan is
> to rewrite it in java once I figure out what I'm doing and then move to a
> more elegant solution than system calls to importer-cli...
> 
> I would really appreciate any pointers that could help me achieve the above
> three simple operations.

Sorry for chiming in late, but https://gist.github.com/3036255 may also be useful.

Cheers,
~Josh.

> Thanks!
> 
> Roy
> 
> 
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