You can find another way to do it here as well: https://github.com/Kitware/ParaView/blob/master/Web/Python/paraview/web/protocols.py#L2692-L2695 https://github.com/Kitware/ParaView/blob/master/Web/Python/paraview/web/protocols.py#L2715-L2716 [...]
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit < utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com> wrote: > Robert, > > Sorry I missed the email earlier. What you have as an alternative is > indeed a reasonable approach. Once can also use ParaView's > infrastructure used by the file dialog, but it's a little clunky > currently, since it needs to be pythonified for easier user. > > Here's how you'd do this with 5.4.1. > > from paraview import servermanager as sm > > helper = sm.misc.FileInformationHelper() > helper.DirectoryListing = 1 > helper.WorkingDirecotry = "'/path/to/data/on/remote" > > pvinfo = servermanager.vtkPVFileInformation() > helper.GatherInformation(pvinfo) > for a_pvinfo in pvinfo.GetConents(): > if a_pvinfo.GetType() == a_pvinfo.FILE_GROUP: > for b_pvinfo in a_pvinfo.GetContents(): > assert b_pvinfo.GetType() == b_pvinfo.SINGLE_FILE > print (b_pvinfo.GetName(), b_pvinfo.GetFullPath()) > elif a_pvinfo.GetType() == a_pvinfo.SINGLE_FILE > print (a_pvinfo.GetName(), a_pvinfo.GetFullPath()) > > This will print all files in the directory. > > See vtkPVFileInformation docs > (https://www.paraview.org/ParaView3/Doc/Nightly/www/cxx- > doc/classvtkPVFileInformation.html) > for more API details. > > Hope that helps. > > Utkarsh > > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Robert Sawko <robertsa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I will bump my own post from a month back (see below) and just will > answer the > > question in case anyone else was looking for something similar. I > haven't found > > a way to remotely navigate the file system through ParaView Python API > objects, > > but of course there are other Python packages which can achieve that. I > used > > paramiko. Below is my minimal example. > > > > > > from paraview.simple import LegacyVTKReader, RenameSource, Connect > > from paramiko import SSHClient, AutoAddPolicy > > > > ''' > > This script extracts the output of a remote ls command with to feed > into > > a LegacyVTKReader. The main use is it to make a collection of VTK > files > > into a time sequence inside PV. > > ''' > > > > # Inputs: > > host = 'remote.host.com' > > port = 22 > > username = 'me' > > key_filename = '/path/to/private/key' > > > > pvhost = 'localhost' # I typically run pvserver through an ssh > tunnel so > > pvport = 22227 # these are the parameters for local port > forward > > > > data_dir = '/path/to/data/on/remote' > > > > # SSH part > > # to get a list of files to open > > client = SSHClient() > > client.set_missing_host_key_policy(AutoAddPolicy()) > > > > client.connect( > > host, port=port, > > username=username, > > key_filename=key_filename) > > > > stdin, stdout, stderr = client.exec_command( > > 'ls -1 {0}'.format(data_dir)) > > lslines = stdout.readlines() > > client.close() > > > > # ParaView part > > Connect('localhost', 22227) > > reader = LegacyVTKReader(FileNames=[ > > 'data/{0}'.format(l.strip()) for l in lslines]) > > RenameSource('source', reader) > > > > Hope this helps someone! > > Robert > > > > On 12/01/17 at 07:18pm, Robert Sawko wrote: > >> Dear ParaViewers, > >> > >> > >> I am trying to use Python shell in Client-Server mode, but I am running > into > >> some difficulties. How can I actually browse the remote directories. I > tried > >> to use the `os` module, but that obviously ends up being all local. > Here's a > >> minimal example of what I am trying to achieve. > >> > >> > >> from paraview.simple import Connect, LegacyVTKReader > >> from os import listdir > >> > >> Connect('my_server', port) > >> location = '/my/remote/location/' > >> > >> file_names = listdir(location).sort() > >> reader = LegacyVTKReader(FileNames=file_names) > >> > >> > >> Please let me know if it's at all possible to query the directory on > the remote > >> side through an established connection. > >> > >> Many thanks, > >> Robert > >> -- > >> Seems like the famous poem of turbulence comes from Jonathan Swift > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Siphonaptera > > > > -- > > Playing possum, opposable digit, climbing, swimming, omnivores... > > Is there nothing they can't do? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum > > _______________________________________________ > > Powered by www.kitware.com > > > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/ > opensource/opensource.html > > > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > > https://paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/ > opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > https://paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >
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