102.4. Retrieve job by URL

102.4. Retrieve a TAP job by URL¶

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Learning objective: How to use the TAP service's job URLs.

LSST data products: Object table

Packages: lsst.rsp.get_tap_service and retrieve_query

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1. Introduction¶

TAP provides standardized access to catalog data for discovery, search, and retrieval. Full documentation for TAP is provided by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA).

Related tutorials: The other 100-level tutorials in this series demonstrate how to use the TAP service. The 200-level tutorials describe the contents of the catalog data.

1.1. Import packages¶

Import the RSP TAP service.

In [1]:

from lsst.rsp import get_tap_service, retrieve_query

1.2. Define parameters¶

Get an instance of the TAP service, and assert that it exists.

In [2]:

service = get_tap_service("tap")
assert service is not None

2. The job URL¶

Job results are generally available from previously run queries, and can be retrieved if the URL of the job is known and if the job has not been deleted.

Do not use job.delete() if the results will be retrieved later!

First, define a small, simple cone search query on the Object table.

In [3]:

query = """SELECT coord_ra, coord_dec
        FROM dp1.Object
        WHERE CONTAINS(POINT('ICRS', coord_ra, coord_dec),
        CIRCLE('ICRS', 53, -28, 0.01)) = 1"""
print(query)

SELECT coord_ra, coord_dec
        FROM dp1.Object
        WHERE CONTAINS(POINT('ICRS', coord_ra, coord_dec),
        CIRCLE('ICRS', 53, -28, 0.01)) = 1

Execute the query asynchronously, but do not fetch the results. Instead, get the job URL as a string and print it.

In [4]:

job = service.submit_job(query)
job.run()
job.wait(phases=['COMPLETED', 'ERROR'])
print('Job phase is', job.phase)
if job.phase == 'ERROR':
    job.raise_if_error()
assert job.phase == 'COMPLETED'
# results = job.fetch_result()
# print(len(results))

job_url = str(job.url)
print('job URL: ', job_url)

Job phase is COMPLETED
job URL:  https://data.lsst.cloud/api/tap/async/szqlkj70oks76k15

2.1. Retrieve data from a job URL¶

This URL can be used to retrieve the query results.

The URL could be shared with another user of the Rubin TAP service, and they could retrieve the same results.

Retrieve the job by passing job_url to retrieve_query, then retrieve the results with fetch_result().

In [5]:

retrieved_job = retrieve_query(job_url)
retrieved_results = retrieved_job.fetch_result().to_table().to_pandas()

In [6]:

retrieved_results

Out[6]:

	coord_ra	coord_dec
0	52.999951	-28.009791
1	53.000648	-28.000418
2	52.998650	-28.007344
3	53.004408	-28.007065
4	52.997280	-28.004764
...	...	...
136	53.003140	-27.992143
137	53.001367	-27.990402
138	53.001940	-27.990604
139	53.000369	-27.991722
140	53.000706	-27.991989

141 rows × 2 columns

Clean up.

In [7]:

job.delete()
del query, job_url, retrieved_job, retrieved_results

3. Get a Portal job's URL¶

In the Portal Aspect of the Rubin Science Platform, run a search using the following ADQL statement.

SELECT coord_ra, coord_dec
FROM dp1.Object
WHERE CONTAINS(POINT('ICRS', coord_ra, coord_dec),
CIRCLE('ICRS', 53, -28, 0.01)) = 1

Figure 1: The ADQL statement entered into the ADQL query box in the Portal Aspect.

In the Portal, click on the "Job Monitor" tab to see a list of all recent jobs.

In the Job Monitor, click on the "information" icon in the top row (most recent job) - it is the letter "i" in a circle. The following pop-up will appear, and the job URL is at the bottom.

Figure 2: The pop-up window of job information. This pop-up window will also appear by clicking on the "information" icon above the table in the Portal's Result tab.

3.1. Retrieve data from a Portal job URL¶

Click on the clipboard icon next to jobUrl to copy the URL.

Paste the job URL into the empty string in the cell below to define job_url.

Uncomment the lines and execute the cell to retrieve the results.

In [8]:

# job_url = ''
# retrieved_job = retrieve_query(job_url)
# retrieved_results = retrieved_job.fetch_result().to_table().to_pandas()
# print(len(retrieved_results))

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