CRDS Database Access

JSON RPC Access

CRDS supports JSON RPC access to the CRDS catalog via the crds.client API.

Metadata for a single file

The JSON RPC call get_file_info() will return the available info for a single reference or mapping file from the specified observatory:

def get_file_info(observatory, filename):
    """Return a dictionary of CRDS information about `filename`."""

Single reference file:

>>> from crds.client import api
>>> api.get_file_info("hst", "lcb12060j_drk.fits")
{'activation_date': '2021-08-06 10:26:52',
 'aperture': 'wfc2-orampq',
 'blacklisted': 'false',
 'change_level': 'severe',
 'delivery_date': '2021-08-05 14:40:44',
 'derived_from': 'none',
 'description': 'updates to the variance and read noise calculations for subarrays ...',
 'filekind': 'biasfile',
 'instrument': 'acs',
 'name': '5851840kj_bia.fits',
 'observatory': 'hst',
 'pedigree': 'inflight 14/11/2015 14/11/2015',
 'reference_file_type': 'none',
 'rejected': 'false',
 'sha1sum': 'b684c9123da94ff5b9efb72c15316af050ecca62',
 'size': '42390720',
 'state': 'operational',
 'type': 'reference',
 'uploaded_as': '20151022_g2.0_wfc2-orampq_d_bia.fits',
 'useafter_date': '2015-10-22 23:30:54'}

Metadata for several / all files

The JSON RPC call get_file_info_map() will return the info for multiple (or all) files and the specified (or all) fields as a dictionary of dictionaries mapping filename onto info:

def get_file_info_map(observatory, files=None, fields=None):
  """Return the info { filename : { info } } on `files` of `observatory`.
  `fields` can be used to limit info returned to specified keys.
  """

If files is specified as None, info on all files is returned.

If fields are specified as None, info on all available fields is returned.

$ export CRDS_SERVER_URL=https://hst-crds.stsci.edu
>>> from crds.client import api
>>> api.get_file_info_map("hst", files=["lcb12060j_drk.fits", "n3o1022fj_drk.fits"], fields=["state","size","sha1sum"])
{'lcb12060j_drk.fits': {
    'sha1sum': '56cfd1107bda5d82cb49a301a50edb45cb64ded6',
    'size': '10549440',
    'state': 'operational'
    },
 'n3o1022fj_drk.fits': {
     'sha1sum': 'cecf11300015df8f39913b638138d8c67de77a02',
     'size': '10526400',
     'state': 'operational'
     }
}

Download CRDS catalog for SQLite queries

The CRDS catalog stores metadata about references not captured in the .rmap files. It also contains the history of CRDS context use, the effective dates at which particular contexts where operational in the pipeline.

You can download a SQLite-3 snapshot of the CRDS catalog like this:

$ export CRDS_SERVER_URL=https://hst-crds.stsci.edu
$ export CRDS_PATH=/home/homer/crds_cache
$ export crds sync --fetch-sqlite-db
CRDS - INFO - SQLite database file downloaded to: /home/homer/crds_cache/config/hst/crds_db.sqlite3

will snapshot the current CRDS catalog on the CRDS server and download it to your local CRDS cache as a SQLite3 database file. The SQLite database can typically be accessed like this:

$ sqlite3 /home/homer/crds_cache_dev/config/hst/crds_db.sqlite3

sqlite> .tables
crds_hst_catalog       crds_hst_context_history

sqlite> .mode tabs
sqlite> .headers on
sqlite> select * from crds_hst_context_history where state="operational" limit 1;
id    name    start_date        context     state          description
2        2013-07-02 15:44:53    hst.pmap    operational    set by system
\.\.\.

The CRDS catalog contains the following meta-data:

Catalog Fields

type

description

name

str

CRDS filename

uploaded_as

str

Name of file at time of upload / generation

state

str

uploaded, delivered, submitted, archiving, archived, archiving-failed, bad

blacklisted

bool/int

True/1 == this mapping, and all mappings referring to it, are invalid.

rejected

bool/int

True/1 == this file is considered scientifically invalid

replaced_by_filename

str

Succeeding reference file in chain of contexts. Weakly defined.

instrument

str

instrument name file applies to

filekind

str

reference type. For HST, also keyword name for dataset headers

type

str

reference or mapping

description

str

description given at time of delivery

comment

str

COMMENT from reference file

aperture

str

APERTURE from reference file

derived_from

str

Name of mapping this one was derived from

sha1sum

str

sha1sum of file to verify file integrity

size

int

length of file in bytes

creator_name

str

author of reference or mapping file

deliverer_user

str

person who submitted the reference or mapping to CRDS

deliverer_email

str

e-mail of person who submitted reference

NOTE: Reference file assignment criteria are encoded in the CRDS rules / mappings and displayed as tables on the web site context display. See also crds.matches for information on displaying matching criteria based on rmaps at the command line.