birdhouse-birdy 0.1.0

Birdy provides a commandline tool to work with Web Processing Services (WPS).

Contents

• Introduction

• Installation

• Example Usage

• Authors

• Change History

Introduction

Birdy (the bird)

Birdy is not a bird but likes to play with them.

Birdy is a Python package to provide a command-line tool to work with Web Processing Services (WPS). It is using OWSLib from the GeoPython project.

Installation

Check out code from the birdy github repo and start the installation:

$ git clone https://github.com/bird-house/birdy.git
$ cd birdy
$ make

Example Usage

Show the processes on a Web Processing Service:

$ export WPS_SERVICE="http://rsg.pml.ac.uk/wps/generic.cgi"
$ birdy -h
usage: birdy [-h] <command> [<args>]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

command:
  List of available commands (wps processes)

  {temperatureConverter,oilspil,fetchMODISTimeStamp,fetchMODIS,fetchMRCS,r.colors,reprojectCoords,intersectBBOX,reprojectImage,mergeImages,compareImages,buoyGraphic,gml2svg,geotiff2png,dummyprocess,gdalinfo,ncdump,reducer,taverna,WCS_Process,NetCDF2JSON,json2plot}
                     Run "birdy <command> -h" to get additional help.

Show help for a dummyprocess:

$ birdy dummyprocess -h
usage: birdy dummyprocess [-h] --input2 [INPUT2] --input1 [INPUT1]
                          [--output {output2,output1}]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --input2 [INPUT2]     Input2 number
  --input1 [INPUT1]     Input1 number
  --output {output2,output1}
                     Output: output2=Output2 subtract 1 result (default:
                     output)output1=Output1 add 1 result (default: output)

Execute dummyprocess:

$ birdy dummyprocess --input1 1 --input2 3 --output output1
Execution status: ProcessAccepted
Execution status: ProcessSucceeded
Output URL=http://earthserver.pml.ac.uk/wps/wpsoutputs/output1-cf94c9ea-7982-11e4-8e10-d4ae52675c92

Authors

Carsten Ehbrecht ehbrecht at dkrz.de

Change History

0.1.0 (2014-12-02)

• Initial Release.