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Class GPUdbFileHandler

class gpudb.GPUdbFileHandler(db: GPUdb)[source]

This class exposes convenience methods to upload/download files to/from KIFS from local/KIFS directory.

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Methods

  1. upload_files - Upload a list of files - upload_files()

  2. upload_file - Upload a single file - upload_file()

  3. download_files - Download a list of files - download_files()

  4. download_file - Download a single file - download_file()

Example

Initialize a GPUdbFileHandler.

Parameters

db (GPUdb) –

A GPUdb instance

classmethod from_url_info(host: str = ‘http://127.0.0.1:9191’, username: str = None, password: str = None)[source]

Create a GPUdbFileHandler instance from a host URL, user name, and password.

Parameters

host (str, optional) –

A Kinetica host URL. Defaults to “http://127.0.0.1:9191”.

username (str, optional) –

Kinetica user name. Defaults to None.

password (str, optional) –

Password for the user. Defaults to None.

Returns

GPUdbFileHandler –

a GPUdbFileHandler instance

classmethod from_db_instance(db: GPUdb)[source]

Create a GPUdbFileHandler from a GPUdb instance.

Parameters

db (GPUdb) –

a GPUdb instance

Returns

GPUdbFileHandler –

a GPUdbFileHandler instance

upload_file(file_name: str, kifs_path: str) → None[source]

Upload a single file to a KIFS directory.

Parameters

file_name (str) –

Full path to the local file to upload

kifs_path (str) –

A KIFS directory to upload (must be existing)

upload_files(file_names: list, kifs_path: str) → None[source]

Upload a list of files to a KIFS directory.

Parameters

file_names (list) –

List of full local file paths

kifs_path (str) –

Name of an existent KIFS directory

download_file(file_name: str, local_dir: str) → None[source]
Download a single file to a local directory.

A large file greater than 60MB in size will be downloaded in parts.

Parameters

file_name (str) –

Name of the file to download (full KIFS path)

local_dir (str) –

Name of the local directory to save the file in

Raises

gpudb.GPUdbException –

In case of an exception thrown by the server or in case the local directory doesn’t exist

download_files(file_names: list, local_dir: str) → None[source]

Download a list of files from KIFS.

Parameters

file_names (list) –

A list of file names (full KIFS paths)

local_dir (str) –

Name of the local directory to save the files in

Raises

gpudb.GPUdbException –

In case of an exception thrown by the server or in case the local directory doesn’t exist