aiida.transports package

Module for classes and utilities to define transports to other machines.

class aiida.transports.Transport(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: object

Abstract class for a generic transport (ssh, local, …) Contains the set of minimal methods

_MAGIC_CHECK = <_sre.SRE_Pattern object>
__abstractmethods__ = frozenset([])
__dict__ = dict_proxy({'rename': <function rename>, 'copyfile': <function copyfile>, '__module__': 'aiida.transports.transport', '__abstractmethods__': frozenset([]), 'putfile': <function putfile>, '_abc_negative_cache': <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>, '__str__': <function __str__>, 'copy_from_remote_to_remote': <function copy_from_remote_to_remote>, '_MAGIC_CHECK': <_sre.SRE_Pattern object>, 'chmod': <function chmod>, '__dict__': <attribute '__dict__' of 'Transport' objects>, 'set_logger_extra': <function set_logger_extra>, 'copytree': <function copytree>, 'get_valid_auth_params': <classmethod object>, 'close': <function close>, '_common_auth_options': [('safe_interval', {'prompt': 'Connection cooldown time (sec)', 'type': <type 'int'>, 'help': 'Minimum time between connections in sec', 'non_interactive_default': True})], 'open': <function open>, 'listdir_withattributes': <function listdir_withattributes>, '__init__': <function __init__>, 'normalize': <function normalize>, '_valid_auth_params': None, 'isfile': <function isfile>, 'makedirs': <function makedirs>, '__enter__': <function __enter__>, 'mkdir': <function mkdir>, 'chown': <function chown>, '_exec_command_internal': <function _exec_command_internal>, 'getfile': <function getfile>, 'rmdir': <function rmdir>, '_abc_negative_cache_version': 39, 'get_mode': <function get_mode>, '__doc__': '\n Abstract class for a generic transport (ssh, local, ...)\n Contains the set of minimal methods\n ', 'isdir': <function isdir>, 'listdir': <function listdir>, '__exit__': <function __exit__>, 'get': <function get>, 'getcwd': <function getcwd>, 'glob': <function glob>, 'get_attribute': <function get_attribute>, 'has_magic': <function has_magic>, 'symlink': <function symlink>, 'get_safe_open_interval': <function get_safe_open_interval>, 'auth_options': <aiida.common.lang.classproperty object>, 'path_exists': <function path_exists>, '_get_safe_interval_suggestion_string': <classmethod object>, 'rmtree': <function rmtree>, 'put': <function put>, 'copy': <function copy>, 'logger': <property object>, 'glob1': <function glob1>, 'glob0': <function glob0>, 'gotocomputer_command': <function gotocomputer_command>, '_abc_cache': <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>, 'gettree': <function gettree>, 'exec_command_wait': <function exec_command_wait>, 'chdir': <function chdir>, 'get_valid_transports': <classmethod object>, 'remove': <function remove>, 'get_short_doc': <classmethod object>, 'iglob': <function iglob>, '__weakref__': <attribute '__weakref__' of 'Transport' objects>, 'puttree': <function puttree>, '__repr__': <function __repr__>, 'is_open': <property object>, '_abc_registry': <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>, 'whoami': <function whoami>, '_valid_auth_options': []})
__enter__()[source]

For transports that require opening a connection, opens all required channels (used in ‘with’ statements).

This object can be used in nested with statements and the connection will only be opened once and closed when the final with scope finishes e.g.:

t = Transport()
with t:
    # Connection is now open..
    with t:
        # ..still open..
        pass
    # ..still open..
# ...closed
__exit__(type_, value, traceback)[source]

Closes connections, if needed (used in ‘with’ statements).

__init__(*args, **kwargs)[source]

__init__ method of the Transport base class.

__module__ = 'aiida.transports.transport'
__repr__() <==> repr(x)[source]
__str__() <==> str(x)[source]
__weakref__

list of weak references to the object (if defined)

_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 39
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_common_auth_options = [('safe_interval', {'prompt': 'Connection cooldown time (sec)', 'type': <type 'int'>, 'help': 'Minimum time between connections in sec', 'non_interactive_default': True})]
_exec_command_internal(command, **kwargs)[source]

Execute the command on the shell, similarly to os.system.

Enforce the execution to be run from the cwd (as given by self.getcwd), if this is not None.

If possible, use the higher-level exec_command_wait function.

Parameters:command (str) – execute the command given as a string
Returns:stdin, stdout, stderr and the session, when this exists (can be None).
classmethod _get_safe_interval_suggestion_string(computer)[source]

Default time in seconds between consecutive checks.

Set to a non-zero value to be safe e.g. in the case of transports with a connection limit, to avoid overloading the server (and being banned). Should be overriden in plugins. This is anyway just a default, as the value can be changed by the user in the Computer properties, for instance. Currently both the local and the ssh transport override this value, so this is not used, but it will be the default for possible new plugins.

_valid_auth_options = []
_valid_auth_params = None
auth_options = {'safe_interval': {'help': 'Minimum time between connections in sec', 'non_interactive_default': True, 'prompt': 'Connection cooldown time (sec)', 'type': <type 'int'>}}
chdir(path)[source]

Change directory to ‘path’

Parameters:path (str) – path to change working directory into.
Raises:IOError, if the requested path does not exist
Return type:str
chmod(path, mode)[source]

Change permissions of a path.

Parameters:
  • path (str) – path to file
  • mode (int) – new permissions
chown(path, uid, gid)[source]

Change the owner (uid) and group (gid) of a file. As with python’s os.chown function, you must pass both arguments, so if you only want to change one, use stat first to retrieve the current owner and group.

Parameters:
  • path (str) – path to the file to change the owner and group of
  • uid (int) – new owner’s uid
  • gid (int) – new group id
close()[source]

Closes the local transport channel

copy(remotesource, remotedestination, dereference=False, recursive=True)[source]

Copy a file or a directory from remote source to remote destination (On the same remote machine)

Parameters:
  • remotesource (str) – path of the remote source directory / file
  • remotedestination (str) – path of the remote destination directory / file
  • dereference (bool) – if True copy the contents of any symlinks found, otherwise copy the symlinks themselves
  • recursive (bool) – if True copy directories recursively, otherwise only copy the specified file(s)
Raises:

IOError, if one of src or dst does not exist
copy_from_remote_to_remote(transportdestination, remotesource, remotedestination, **kwargs)[source]

Copy files or folders from a remote computer to another remote computer.

Parameters:
  • transportdestination – transport to be used for the destination computer
  • remotesource (str) – path to the remote source directory / file
  • remotedestination (str) – path to the remote destination directory / file
  • kwargs – keyword parameters passed to the call to transportdestination.put, except for ‘dereference’ that is passed to self.get

Note

the keyword ‘dereference’ SHOULD be set to False for the final put (onto the destination), while it can be set to the value given in kwargs for the get from the source. In that way, a symbolic link would never be followed in the final copy to the remote destination. That way we could avoid getting unknown (potentially malicious) files into the destination computer. HOWEVER, since dereference=False is currently NOT supported by all plugins, we still force it to True for the final put.

Note

the supported keys in kwargs are callback, dereference, overwrite and ignore_nonexisting.

copyfile(remotesource, remotedestination, dereference=False)[source]

Copy a file from remote source to remote destination (On the same remote machine)

Parameters:
  • remotesource (str) – path of the remote source directory / file
  • remotedestination (str) – path of the remote destination directory / file
  • dereference (bool) – if True copy the contents of any symlinks found, otherwise copy the symlinks themselves
Raises:

IOError – if one of src or dst does not exist
copytree(remotesource, remotedestination, dereference=False)[source]

Copy a folder from remote source to remote destination (On the same remote machine)

Parameters:
  • remotesource (str) – path of the remote source directory / file
  • remotedestination (str) – path of the remote destination directory / file
  • dereference (bool) – if True copy the contents of any symlinks found, otherwise copy the symlinks themselves
Raises:

IOError – if one of src or dst does not exist
exec_command_wait(command, **kwargs)[source]

Execute the command on the shell, waits for it to finish, and return the retcode, the stdout and the stderr.

Enforce the execution to be run from the pwd (as given by self.getcwd), if this is not None.

Parameters:command (str) – execute the command given as a string
Returns:a list: the retcode (int), stdout (str) and stderr (str).
get(remotepath, localpath, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Retrieve a file or folder from remote source to local destination dst must be an absolute path (src not necessarily)

Parameters:
  • remotepath – (str) remote_folder_path
  • localpath – (str) local_folder_path
get_attribute(path)[source]

Return an object FixedFieldsAttributeDict for file in a given path, as defined in aiida.common.extendeddicts Each attribute object consists in a dictionary with the following keys:

  • st_size: size of files, in bytes
  • st_uid: user id of owner
  • st_gid: group id of owner
  • st_mode: protection bits
  • st_atime: time of most recent access
  • st_mtime: time of most recent modification
Parameters:path (str) – path to file
Returns:object FixedFieldsAttributeDict
get_mode(path)[source]

Return the portion of the file’s mode that can be set by chmod().

Parameters:path (str) – path to file
Returns:the portion of the file’s mode that can be set by chmod()
get_safe_open_interval()[source]

Get an interval (in seconds) that suggests how long the user should wait between consecutive calls to open the transport. This can be used as a way to get the user to not swamp a limited number of connections, etc. However it is just advisory.

If returns 0, it is taken that there are no reasons to limit the frequency of open calls.

In the main class, it returns a default value (>0 for safety), set in the _DEFAULT_SAFE_OPEN_INTERVAL attribute of the class. Plugins should override it.

Returns:The safe interval between calling open, in seconds
Return type:float
classmethod get_short_doc()[source]

Return the first non-empty line of the class docstring, if available

classmethod get_valid_auth_params()[source]

Return the internal list of valid auth_params

classmethod get_valid_transports()[source]
Returns:a list of existing plugin names
getcwd()[source]

Get working directory

Returns:a string identifying the current working directory
getfile(remotepath, localpath, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Retrieve a file from remote source to local destination dst must be an absolute path (src not necessarily)

Parameters:
  • remotepath (str) – remote_folder_path
  • localpath (str) – local_folder_path
gettree(remotepath, localpath, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Retrieve a folder recursively from remote source to local destination dst must be an absolute path (src not necessarily)

Parameters:
  • remotepath (str) – remote_folder_path
  • localpath (str) – local_folder_path
glob(pathname)[source]

Return a list of paths matching a pathname pattern.

The pattern may contain simple shell-style wildcards a la fnmatch.

glob0(dirname, basename)[source]

Wrap basename i a list if it is empty or if dirname/basename is an existing path, else return empty list.

glob1(dirname, pattern)[source]

Match subpaths of dirname against pattern.

gotocomputer_command(remotedir)[source]

Return a string to be run using os.system in order to connect via the transport to the remote directory.

Expected behaviors:

  • A new bash session is opened
  • A reasonable error message is produced if the folder does not exist
Parameters:remotedir (str) – the full path of the remote directory
has_magic(string)[source]
iglob(pathname)[source]

Return an iterator which yields the paths matching a pathname pattern.

The pattern may contain simple shell-style wildcards a la fnmatch.

is_open
isdir(path)[source]

True if path is an existing directory.

Parameters:path (str) – path to directory
Returns:boolean
isfile(path)[source]

Return True if path is an existing file.

Parameters:path (str) – path to file
Returns:boolean
listdir(path='.', pattern=None)[source]

Return a list of the names of the entries in the given path. The list is in arbitrary order. It does not include the special entries ‘.’ and ‘..’ even if they are present in the directory.

Parameters:
  • path (str) – path to list (default to ‘.’)
  • pattern (str) – if used, listdir returns a list of files matching filters in Unix style. Unix only.
Returns:

a list of strings
listdir_withattributes(path='.', pattern=None)[source]

Return a list of the names of the entries in the given path. The list is in arbitrary order. It does not include the special entries ‘.’ and ‘..’ even if they are present in the directory.

Parameters:
  • path (str) – path to list (default to ‘.’)
  • pattern (str) – if used, listdir returns a list of files matching filters in Unix style. Unix only.
Returns:

a list of dictionaries, one per entry. The schema of the dictionary is the following:

{
   'name': String,
   'attributes': FileAttributeObject,
   'isdir': Bool
}

where ‘name’ is the file or folder directory, and any other information is metadata (if the file is a folder, a directory, …). ‘attributes’ behaves as the output of transport.get_attribute(); isdir is a boolean indicating if the object is a directory or not.
logger

Return the internal logger. If you have set extra parameters using set_logger_extra(), a suitable LoggerAdapter instance is created, bringing with itself also the extras.

makedirs(path, ignore_existing=False)[source]

Super-mkdir; create a leaf directory and all intermediate ones. Works like mkdir, except that any intermediate path segment (not just the rightmost) will be created if it does not exist.

Parameters:
  • path (str) – directory to create
  • ignore_existing (bool) – if set to true, it doesn’t give any error if the leaf directory does already exist
Raises:

OSError, if directory at path already exists
mkdir(path, ignore_existing=False)[source]

Create a folder (directory) named path.

Parameters:
  • path (str) – name of the folder to create
  • ignore_existing (bool) – if True, does not give any error if the directory already exists
Raises:

OSError, if directory at path already exists
normalize(path='.')[source]

Return the normalized path (on the server) of a given path. This can be used to quickly resolve symbolic links or determine what the server is considering to be the “current folder”.

Parameters:path (str) – path to be normalized
Raises:IOError – if the path can’t be resolved on the server
open()[source]

Opens a local transport channel

path_exists(path)[source]

Returns True if path exists, False otherwise.

put(localpath, remotepath, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Put a file or a directory from local src to remote dst. src must be an absolute path (dst not necessarily)) Redirects to putfile and puttree.

Parameters:
  • localpath (str) – absolute path to local source
  • remotepath (str) – path to remote destination
putfile(localpath, remotepath, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Put a file from local src to remote dst. src must be an absolute path (dst not necessarily))

Parameters:
  • localpath (str) – absolute path to local file
  • remotepath (str) – path to remote file
puttree(localpath, remotepath, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Put a folder recursively from local src to remote dst. src must be an absolute path (dst not necessarily))

Parameters:
  • localpath (str) – absolute path to local folder
  • remotepath (str) – path to remote folder
remove(path)[source]

Remove the file at the given path. This only works on files; for removing folders (directories), use rmdir.

Parameters:path (str) – path to file to remove
Raises:IOError – if the path is a directory
rename(oldpath, newpath)[source]

Rename a file or folder from oldpath to newpath.

Parameters:
  • oldpath (str) – existing name of the file or folder
  • newpath (str) – new name for the file or folder
Raises:
  • IOError – if oldpath/newpath is not found
  • ValueError – if oldpath/newpath is not a valid string
rmdir(path)[source]

Remove the folder named path. This works only for empty folders. For recursive remove, use rmtree.

Parameters:path (str) – absolute path to the folder to remove
rmtree(path)[source]

Remove recursively the content at path

Parameters:path (str) – absolute path to remove
set_logger_extra(logger_extra)[source]

Pass the data that should be passed automatically to self.logger as ‘extra’ keyword. This is typically useful if you pass data obtained using get_dblogger_extra in aiida.backends.djsite.utils, to automatically log also to the DbLog table.

Parameters:logger_extra – data that you want to pass as extra to the self.logger. To write to DbLog, it should be created by the aiida.backends.djsite.utils.get_dblogger_extra function. Pass None if you do not want to have extras passed.

Create a symbolic link between the remote source and the remote destination.

Parameters:
  • remotesource – remote source
  • remotedestination – remote destination
whoami()[source]

Get the remote username

Returns:list of username (str), retval (int), stderr (str)

Submodules

Common cli utilities for transport plugins.

aiida.transports.cli.common_params(command_func)[source]

Decorate a command function with common click parameters for all transport plugins.

aiida.transports.cli.configure_computer_main(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Configure a computer via the CLI.

aiida.transports.cli.create_configure_cmd(transport_type)[source]

Create verdi computer configure subcommand for a transport type.

aiida.transports.cli.create_option(name, spec)[source]

Create a click option from a name and partial specs as used in transport auth_options.

aiida.transports.cli.interactive_default(transport_type, key, also_noninteractive=False)[source]

Create a contextual_default value callback for an auth_param key.

aiida.transports.cli.list_transport_options(transport_type)[source]
aiida.transports.cli.match_comp_transport(ctx, param, computer, transport_type)[source]

Check the computer argument against the transport type.

aiida.transports.cli.transport_option_default(name, computer)[source]

Determine the default value for an auth_param key.

aiida.transports.cli.transport_options(transport_type)[source]

Decorate a command with all options for a computer configure subcommand for transport_type.

Transport interface.

class aiida.transports.transport.Transport(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: object

Abstract class for a generic transport (ssh, local, …) Contains the set of minimal methods

_MAGIC_CHECK = <_sre.SRE_Pattern object>
__abstractmethods__ = frozenset([])
__dict__ = dict_proxy({'rename': <function rename>, 'copyfile': <function copyfile>, '__module__': 'aiida.transports.transport', '__abstractmethods__': frozenset([]), 'putfile': <function putfile>, '_abc_negative_cache': <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>, '__str__': <function __str__>, 'copy_from_remote_to_remote': <function copy_from_remote_to_remote>, '_MAGIC_CHECK': <_sre.SRE_Pattern object>, 'chmod': <function chmod>, '__dict__': <attribute '__dict__' of 'Transport' objects>, 'set_logger_extra': <function set_logger_extra>, 'copytree': <function copytree>, 'get_valid_auth_params': <classmethod object>, 'close': <function close>, '_common_auth_options': [('safe_interval', {'prompt': 'Connection cooldown time (sec)', 'type': <type 'int'>, 'help': 'Minimum time between connections in sec', 'non_interactive_default': True})], 'open': <function open>, 'listdir_withattributes': <function listdir_withattributes>, '__init__': <function __init__>, 'normalize': <function normalize>, '_valid_auth_params': None, 'isfile': <function isfile>, 'makedirs': <function makedirs>, '__enter__': <function __enter__>, 'mkdir': <function mkdir>, 'chown': <function chown>, '_exec_command_internal': <function _exec_command_internal>, 'getfile': <function getfile>, 'rmdir': <function rmdir>, '_abc_negative_cache_version': 39, 'get_mode': <function get_mode>, '__doc__': '\n Abstract class for a generic transport (ssh, local, ...)\n Contains the set of minimal methods\n ', 'isdir': <function isdir>, 'listdir': <function listdir>, '__exit__': <function __exit__>, 'get': <function get>, 'getcwd': <function getcwd>, 'glob': <function glob>, 'get_attribute': <function get_attribute>, 'has_magic': <function has_magic>, 'symlink': <function symlink>, 'get_safe_open_interval': <function get_safe_open_interval>, 'auth_options': <aiida.common.lang.classproperty object>, 'path_exists': <function path_exists>, '_get_safe_interval_suggestion_string': <classmethod object>, 'rmtree': <function rmtree>, 'put': <function put>, 'copy': <function copy>, 'logger': <property object>, 'glob1': <function glob1>, 'glob0': <function glob0>, 'gotocomputer_command': <function gotocomputer_command>, '_abc_cache': <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>, 'gettree': <function gettree>, 'exec_command_wait': <function exec_command_wait>, 'chdir': <function chdir>, 'get_valid_transports': <classmethod object>, 'remove': <function remove>, 'get_short_doc': <classmethod object>, 'iglob': <function iglob>, '__weakref__': <attribute '__weakref__' of 'Transport' objects>, 'puttree': <function puttree>, '__repr__': <function __repr__>, 'is_open': <property object>, '_abc_registry': <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>, 'whoami': <function whoami>, '_valid_auth_options': []})
__enter__()[source]

For transports that require opening a connection, opens all required channels (used in ‘with’ statements).

This object can be used in nested with statements and the connection will only be opened once and closed when the final with scope finishes e.g.:

t = Transport()
with t:
    # Connection is now open..
    with t:
        # ..still open..
        pass
    # ..still open..
# ...closed
__exit__(type_, value, traceback)[source]

Closes connections, if needed (used in ‘with’ statements).

__init__(*args, **kwargs)[source]

__init__ method of the Transport base class.

__module__ = 'aiida.transports.transport'
__repr__() <==> repr(x)[source]
__str__() <==> str(x)[source]
__weakref__

list of weak references to the object (if defined)

_abc_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_abc_negative_cache_version = 39
_abc_registry = <_weakrefset.WeakSet object>
_common_auth_options = [('safe_interval', {'prompt': 'Connection cooldown time (sec)', 'type': <type 'int'>, 'help': 'Minimum time between connections in sec', 'non_interactive_default': True})]
_exec_command_internal(command, **kwargs)[source]

Execute the command on the shell, similarly to os.system.

Enforce the execution to be run from the cwd (as given by self.getcwd), if this is not None.

If possible, use the higher-level exec_command_wait function.

Parameters:command (str) – execute the command given as a string
Returns:stdin, stdout, stderr and the session, when this exists (can be None).
classmethod _get_safe_interval_suggestion_string(computer)[source]

Default time in seconds between consecutive checks.

Set to a non-zero value to be safe e.g. in the case of transports with a connection limit, to avoid overloading the server (and being banned). Should be overriden in plugins. This is anyway just a default, as the value can be changed by the user in the Computer properties, for instance. Currently both the local and the ssh transport override this value, so this is not used, but it will be the default for possible new plugins.

_valid_auth_options = []
_valid_auth_params = None
auth_options = {'safe_interval': {'help': 'Minimum time between connections in sec', 'non_interactive_default': True, 'prompt': 'Connection cooldown time (sec)', 'type': <type 'int'>}}
chdir(path)[source]

Change directory to ‘path’

Parameters:path (str) – path to change working directory into.
Raises:IOError, if the requested path does not exist
Return type:str
chmod(path, mode)[source]

Change permissions of a path.

Parameters:
  • path (str) – path to file
  • mode (int) – new permissions
chown(path, uid, gid)[source]

Change the owner (uid) and group (gid) of a file. As with python’s os.chown function, you must pass both arguments, so if you only want to change one, use stat first to retrieve the current owner and group.

Parameters:
  • path (str) – path to the file to change the owner and group of
  • uid (int) – new owner’s uid
  • gid (int) – new group id
close()[source]

Closes the local transport channel

copy(remotesource, remotedestination, dereference=False, recursive=True)[source]

Copy a file or a directory from remote source to remote destination (On the same remote machine)

Parameters:
  • remotesource (str) – path of the remote source directory / file
  • remotedestination (str) – path of the remote destination directory / file
  • dereference (bool) – if True copy the contents of any symlinks found, otherwise copy the symlinks themselves
  • recursive (bool) – if True copy directories recursively, otherwise only copy the specified file(s)
Raises:

IOError, if one of src or dst does not exist
copy_from_remote_to_remote(transportdestination, remotesource, remotedestination, **kwargs)[source]

Copy files or folders from a remote computer to another remote computer.

Parameters:
  • transportdestination – transport to be used for the destination computer
  • remotesource (str) – path to the remote source directory / file
  • remotedestination (str) – path to the remote destination directory / file
  • kwargs – keyword parameters passed to the call to transportdestination.put, except for ‘dereference’ that is passed to self.get

Note

the keyword ‘dereference’ SHOULD be set to False for the final put (onto the destination), while it can be set to the value given in kwargs for the get from the source. In that way, a symbolic link would never be followed in the final copy to the remote destination. That way we could avoid getting unknown (potentially malicious) files into the destination computer. HOWEVER, since dereference=False is currently NOT supported by all plugins, we still force it to True for the final put.

Note

the supported keys in kwargs are callback, dereference, overwrite and ignore_nonexisting.

copyfile(remotesource, remotedestination, dereference=False)[source]

Copy a file from remote source to remote destination (On the same remote machine)

Parameters:
  • remotesource (str) – path of the remote source directory / file
  • remotedestination (str) – path of the remote destination directory / file
  • dereference (bool) – if True copy the contents of any symlinks found, otherwise copy the symlinks themselves
Raises:

IOError – if one of src or dst does not exist
copytree(remotesource, remotedestination, dereference=False)[source]

Copy a folder from remote source to remote destination (On the same remote machine)

Parameters:
  • remotesource (str) – path of the remote source directory / file
  • remotedestination (str) – path of the remote destination directory / file
  • dereference (bool) – if True copy the contents of any symlinks found, otherwise copy the symlinks themselves
Raises:

IOError – if one of src or dst does not exist
exec_command_wait(command, **kwargs)[source]

Execute the command on the shell, waits for it to finish, and return the retcode, the stdout and the stderr.

Enforce the execution to be run from the pwd (as given by self.getcwd), if this is not None.

Parameters:command (str) – execute the command given as a string
Returns:a list: the retcode (int), stdout (str) and stderr (str).
get(remotepath, localpath, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Retrieve a file or folder from remote source to local destination dst must be an absolute path (src not necessarily)

Parameters:
  • remotepath – (str) remote_folder_path
  • localpath – (str) local_folder_path
get_attribute(path)[source]

Return an object FixedFieldsAttributeDict for file in a given path, as defined in aiida.common.extendeddicts Each attribute object consists in a dictionary with the following keys:

  • st_size: size of files, in bytes
  • st_uid: user id of owner
  • st_gid: group id of owner
  • st_mode: protection bits
  • st_atime: time of most recent access
  • st_mtime: time of most recent modification
Parameters:path (str) – path to file
Returns:object FixedFieldsAttributeDict
get_mode(path)[source]

Return the portion of the file’s mode that can be set by chmod().

Parameters:path (str) – path to file
Returns:the portion of the file’s mode that can be set by chmod()
get_safe_open_interval()[source]

Get an interval (in seconds) that suggests how long the user should wait between consecutive calls to open the transport. This can be used as a way to get the user to not swamp a limited number of connections, etc. However it is just advisory.

If returns 0, it is taken that there are no reasons to limit the frequency of open calls.

In the main class, it returns a default value (>0 for safety), set in the _DEFAULT_SAFE_OPEN_INTERVAL attribute of the class. Plugins should override it.

Returns:The safe interval between calling open, in seconds
Return type:float
classmethod get_short_doc()[source]

Return the first non-empty line of the class docstring, if available

classmethod get_valid_auth_params()[source]

Return the internal list of valid auth_params

classmethod get_valid_transports()[source]
Returns:a list of existing plugin names
getcwd()[source]

Get working directory

Returns:a string identifying the current working directory
getfile(remotepath, localpath, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Retrieve a file from remote source to local destination dst must be an absolute path (src not necessarily)

Parameters:
  • remotepath (str) – remote_folder_path
  • localpath (str) – local_folder_path
gettree(remotepath, localpath, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Retrieve a folder recursively from remote source to local destination dst must be an absolute path (src not necessarily)

Parameters:
  • remotepath (str) – remote_folder_path
  • localpath (str) – local_folder_path
glob(pathname)[source]

Return a list of paths matching a pathname pattern.

The pattern may contain simple shell-style wildcards a la fnmatch.

glob0(dirname, basename)[source]

Wrap basename i a list if it is empty or if dirname/basename is an existing path, else return empty list.

glob1(dirname, pattern)[source]

Match subpaths of dirname against pattern.

gotocomputer_command(remotedir)[source]

Return a string to be run using os.system in order to connect via the transport to the remote directory.

Expected behaviors:

  • A new bash session is opened
  • A reasonable error message is produced if the folder does not exist
Parameters:remotedir (str) – the full path of the remote directory
has_magic(string)[source]
iglob(pathname)[source]

Return an iterator which yields the paths matching a pathname pattern.

The pattern may contain simple shell-style wildcards a la fnmatch.

is_open
isdir(path)[source]

True if path is an existing directory.

Parameters:path (str) – path to directory
Returns:boolean
isfile(path)[source]

Return True if path is an existing file.

Parameters:path (str) – path to file
Returns:boolean
listdir(path='.', pattern=None)[source]

Return a list of the names of the entries in the given path. The list is in arbitrary order. It does not include the special entries ‘.’ and ‘..’ even if they are present in the directory.

Parameters:
  • path (str) – path to list (default to ‘.’)
  • pattern (str) – if used, listdir returns a list of files matching filters in Unix style. Unix only.
Returns:

a list of strings
listdir_withattributes(path='.', pattern=None)[source]

Return a list of the names of the entries in the given path. The list is in arbitrary order. It does not include the special entries ‘.’ and ‘..’ even if they are present in the directory.

Parameters:
  • path (str) – path to list (default to ‘.’)
  • pattern (str) – if used, listdir returns a list of files matching filters in Unix style. Unix only.
Returns:

a list of dictionaries, one per entry. The schema of the dictionary is the following:

{
   'name': String,
   'attributes': FileAttributeObject,
   'isdir': Bool
}

where ‘name’ is the file or folder directory, and any other information is metadata (if the file is a folder, a directory, …). ‘attributes’ behaves as the output of transport.get_attribute(); isdir is a boolean indicating if the object is a directory or not.
logger

Return the internal logger. If you have set extra parameters using set_logger_extra(), a suitable LoggerAdapter instance is created, bringing with itself also the extras.

makedirs(path, ignore_existing=False)[source]

Super-mkdir; create a leaf directory and all intermediate ones. Works like mkdir, except that any intermediate path segment (not just the rightmost) will be created if it does not exist.

Parameters:
  • path (str) – directory to create
  • ignore_existing (bool) – if set to true, it doesn’t give any error if the leaf directory does already exist
Raises:

OSError, if directory at path already exists
mkdir(path, ignore_existing=False)[source]

Create a folder (directory) named path.

Parameters:
  • path (str) – name of the folder to create
  • ignore_existing (bool) – if True, does not give any error if the directory already exists
Raises:

OSError, if directory at path already exists
normalize(path='.')[source]

Return the normalized path (on the server) of a given path. This can be used to quickly resolve symbolic links or determine what the server is considering to be the “current folder”.

Parameters:path (str) – path to be normalized
Raises:IOError – if the path can’t be resolved on the server
open()[source]

Opens a local transport channel

path_exists(path)[source]

Returns True if path exists, False otherwise.

put(localpath, remotepath, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Put a file or a directory from local src to remote dst. src must be an absolute path (dst not necessarily)) Redirects to putfile and puttree.

Parameters:
  • localpath (str) – absolute path to local source
  • remotepath (str) – path to remote destination
putfile(localpath, remotepath, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Put a file from local src to remote dst. src must be an absolute path (dst not necessarily))

Parameters:
  • localpath (str) – absolute path to local file
  • remotepath (str) – path to remote file
puttree(localpath, remotepath, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Put a folder recursively from local src to remote dst. src must be an absolute path (dst not necessarily))

Parameters:
  • localpath (str) – absolute path to local folder
  • remotepath (str) – path to remote folder
remove(path)[source]

Remove the file at the given path. This only works on files; for removing folders (directories), use rmdir.

Parameters:path (str) – path to file to remove
Raises:IOError – if the path is a directory
rename(oldpath, newpath)[source]

Rename a file or folder from oldpath to newpath.

Parameters:
  • oldpath (str) – existing name of the file or folder
  • newpath (str) – new name for the file or folder
Raises:
  • IOError – if oldpath/newpath is not found
  • ValueError – if oldpath/newpath is not a valid string
rmdir(path)[source]

Remove the folder named path. This works only for empty folders. For recursive remove, use rmtree.

Parameters:path (str) – absolute path to the folder to remove
rmtree(path)[source]

Remove recursively the content at path

Parameters:path (str) – absolute path to remove
set_logger_extra(logger_extra)[source]

Pass the data that should be passed automatically to self.logger as ‘extra’ keyword. This is typically useful if you pass data obtained using get_dblogger_extra in aiida.backends.djsite.utils, to automatically log also to the DbLog table.

Parameters:logger_extra – data that you want to pass as extra to the self.logger. To write to DbLog, it should be created by the aiida.backends.djsite.utils.get_dblogger_extra function. Pass None if you do not want to have extras passed.

Create a symbolic link between the remote source and the remote destination.

Parameters:
  • remotesource – remote source
  • remotedestination – remote destination
whoami()[source]

Get the remote username

Returns:list of username (str), retval (int), stderr (str)

General utilities for Transport classes.

class aiida.transports.util.FileAttribute(init=None)[source]

Bases: aiida.common.extendeddicts.FixedFieldsAttributeDict

A class, resembling a dictionary, to describe the attributes of a file, that is returned by get_attribute(). Possible keys: st_size, st_uid, st_gid, st_mode, st_atime, st_mtime

__module__ = 'aiida.transports.util'
_valid_fields = ('st_size', 'st_uid', 'st_gid', 'st_mode', 'st_atime', 'st_mtime')
class aiida.transports.util._DetachedProxyCommand(command_line)[source]

Bases: paramiko.proxy.ProxyCommand

Modifies paramiko’s ProxyCommand by launching the process in a separate process group.

__init__(command_line)[source]

Create a new CommandProxy instance. The instance created by this class can be passed as an argument to the .Transport class.

Parameters:command_line (str) – the command that should be executed and used as the proxy.
__module__ = 'aiida.transports.util'
close()[source]
aiida.transports.util.copy_from_remote_to_remote(transportsource, transportdestination, remotesource, remotedestination, **kwargs)[source]

Copy files or folders from a remote computer to another remote computer.

Parameters:
  • transportsource – transport to be used for the source computer
  • transportdestination – transport to be used for the destination computer
  • remotesource (str) – path to the remote source directory / file
  • remotedestination (str) – path to the remote destination directory / file
  • kwargs – keyword parameters passed to the final put, except for ‘dereference’ that is passed to the initial get

Note

it uses the method transportsource.copy_from_remote_to_remote