Daniel Moore

Applications Engineer

iRODS Consortium

July 13-16, 2023

iRODS User Group Meeting

UNC Chapel Hill

Python iRODS Client 1.1.8

Python iRODS Client from v1.1.4 - v1.1.8

Major improvements:

• connection timeout fix
• acls interface (replaces permissions - more consistent)
• correct path normalization
• automatic SSL context handling / generation
• groupadmin capabilities
• resource properties and methods to yield parent, hierarchy, etc.

Minor improvements:

• windows compatibility; unregister replicas; guard password integrity; session auto-close; genquery (NOT LIKE)

Ongoing and Upcoming Work

Works in Progress:

• client-to-resource redirect
• auto-closing data objects

Yet to Come:

• iRODS 4.3.0 authentication framework compatibility

Questions?