Command line features

Run DataLab

To run DataLab from the command line, type the following:

$ cdl

To show help on command line usage, simply run:

$ cdl --help
usage: app.py [-h] [-b path] [-v] [--unattended] [--screenshot] [--delay DELAY] [--xmlrpcport PORT]
              [--verbose {quiet,minimal,normal}]
              [h5]

Run DataLab

positional arguments:
h5                    HDF5 file names (separated by ';'), optionally with dataset name (separated by ',')

options:
-h, --help            show this help message and exit
-b path, --h5browser path
                        path to open with HDF5 browser
-v, --version         show DataLab version
--reset               reset DataLab configuration
--unattended          non-interactive mode
--accept_dialogs      accept dialogs in unattended mode
--screenshot          automatic screenshots
--delay DELAY         delay (seconds) before quitting application in unattended mode
--xmlrpcport XMLRPCPORT
                        XML-RPC port number
--verbose {quiet,normal,debug}
                        verbosity level: for debugging/testing purpose

Open HDF5 file at startup

To open HDF5 files, or even import only a specified HDF5 dataset, use the following:

$ cdl /path/to/file1.h5
$ cdl /path/to/file1.h5,/path/to/dataset1
$ cdl /path/to/file1.h5,/path/to/dataset1;/path/to/file2.h5,/path/to/dataset2

Open HDF5 browser at startup

To open the HDF5 browser at startup, use one of the following commands:

$ cdl -b /path/to/file1.h5
$ cdl --h5browser /path/to/file1.h5

Run DataLab demo

To execute DataLab demo, run the following:

$ cdl-demo

Run unit tests

Note

This test suite is based on guidata.guitest discovery mechanism. It is not compatible with pytest because most of the high level tests have to be executed in a separate process (e.g. scenario tests will fail if executed in the same process as other tests).

To execute all DataLab unit tests, simply run:

$ pytest

Run interactive tests

To execute DataLab interactive tests, run the following:

$ cdl-tests