Very good to know Tom - thank you!
You, Yuan and Sean may have helped me git rid of any free time I've
had. :-)
-kevin.
On 5/2/13 11:49 AM, Tom Whittaker wrote:
Hi Kevin --
I won't comment on the radar-specific stuff...however...
Yes it is possible to use any/all of the Java classes from Jython.
There might some issues with certain overloaded methods as Jython
tries to decide which to call (booleans can cause an issue).
Jython is an implementation of Python (2.5 right now) that runs in the
Java Virtual Machine, so you can use any Python syntax. However, the
only Python "library" routines you could use are those .py files that
do not depend on any native code....that is usually the problem...
If you're interested in NumPy, you can check out the JNumeric that is
included with the IDV -- it is based on the old Numeric package and so
includes quite a bit of the basic array stuff...
tom
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Kevin Manross <manross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Yuan,
Thanks for the reply. I started tinkering with the TDSRadarChooser and
TDSRadarDatasetCollection classes a bit before trying the IDV Jython
approach. I wasn't sure if I was reinventing the wheel, so I looked into
Jython scripting. If I understand you correctly, I should modify/extend the
TDSRadarChooser and TDSRadarDatasetCollection classes to accept a lat/lon
and return the nearest radar. Then I should attempt to call these new
methods via Jython script. Is this correct?
Do I also understand you correctly that I should be able to call many/most
of the IDV Java classes and methods via Jython? If so, that's a really
interesting opportunity I didn't know about. I didn't see anything in the
Jython library that would allow me to read/parse a server catalog, so if it
is a matter of calling the appropriate Java classes/methods, this will be
really intriguing and helpful.
It is possible to blend IDV Jython statements with general python statements
including using standard or third party python modules?
-kevin.
On 5/2/13 9:25 AM, Yuan Ho wrote:
On 4/30/2013 9:19 PM, Kevin Manross wrote:
Hello!
I'm *just* now starting to explore the jython capabilities in the IDV. I
would like to write a script that the user enters a lat/lon and a
date/time and from that, have the IDV plot an image for a radar nearest
to that point and nearest that time. This would be run headless for web
images.
I'm working on a "nearest radar chooser", but the big hurdle I'm facing
is: is there a way with IDV/Jython to read and parse the top level
catalog
http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/catalog/nexrad/level2/catalog.xml
or even
http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/catalog/nexrad/level2/Kxxx/catalog.xml
to get the available dates and times so I could then build the url for
makeDataSource?
-kevin.
Kevin,
This is a very interesting idea.
In the IDV, we use a table (xml file) to store all radar stations
information. There are a few APIs in the TDSRadarDatasetCollection class you
can use to get a list of stations. You need to write an API to find the
nearest radar station with the input of lat/lon. This probably the big
hurdle for you. After that, there are APIs already that can be used to parse
the server catalog and communicate with the server. You can reference the
TDSRadarChooser and TDSRadarDatasetCollection classes.
The benefit of using Jython is that you can invoke many Java class
directly, so I think this project is very interesting. Let us know if you
need more help.
Yuan
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