Login function for ICAT works at SNS

[Peter Peterson]

The menu item Catalog->Login should be configured to work with SNS ICAT4 inside the ORNL firewall for a UCAMS account. In other words, Shelly/Mathieu/Pete can login from their office to the SNS ICAT server. Shelly says that this is just a matter of getting the correct URL into the Facilities.xml file.

[Peter Peterson]

Two things to get "closer" to working:

First: On line 48 of ICat4Catalog.cpp change the plugin string to "ldap". Second: Add the following (some bits are obviously wrong) bit to the SNS facility in Facilities.xml

  <catalog name="ICat4Catalog">
    <soapendpoint url="https://icat.sns.gov:8181/ICATService/ICAT" />
    <externaldownload url="https://isisicatds.stfc.ac.uk/idsbeta/" />
    <filelocation>
      <prefix regex="\\\\isis\\inst\$\\Instruments\$"></prefix>
      <windows replacement=""></windows>
      <linux replacement="/archive"></linux>
      <mac replacement="/archive"></mac>
    </filelocation>
  </catalog>

Adding ?wsdl to the end of the endpoint changes nothing.

[Shelly Ren]

Added SNS ICAT4 Refs #8811

Changeset: ceff3e81d47e380d9a6542304abdf70b9e19f0aa

[Shelly Ren]

Restored SNS computeResource fermi --- Refs #8811

Changeset: 82557bbe697ad86c5955233cb87b3902b78aea4e

[Shelly Ren]

Would like to have this ticket tested from both facilities.

[Jay Rainey]

I was not able to test the login functionality as the SNS end-point is not accessible outside SNS. I did log in from ISIS to verify the changes did not affect our ability to login. All is fine.

The prefix regex in Facilities.xml needs to be updated to the default SNS location of the archives. (This will enable users to 'load' datafiles directly from the ICAT Search interface into Mantid). Note: this is used internally as a regex, so all backslashes and $ need to be escaped.

[Peter Peterson]

This does work, but I would like @Stuart to test it before it gets merged in.

Also, I second Jay's comments about the rest of the information added points to the wrong things at SNS. They should be commented out, or correct and pointing at broken servers.

[Stuart Campbell]

I can login to both facilities with no problems.

ISIS works fine - some minor GUI tweaks but nothing to worry about now. For the SNS, I cannot see anything, I get the following errors

CatalogListInstruments started
Algorithm: CatalogListInstruments v1
Parameters:
  Name: InstrumentList, Value: , Default?: Yes, Direction: Output
  Name: IsValid, Value: 1, Default?: Yes, Direction: Output
Error in execution of algorithm CatalogListInstruments:
Read access to this Instrument is not allowed.
CatalogListInvestigationTypes started
Algorithm: CatalogListInvestigationTypes v1
Parameters:
  Name: InvestigationTypes, Value: , Default?: Yes, Direction: Output
  Name: IsValid, Value: 1, Default?: Yes, Direction: Output
Error in execution of algorithm CatalogListInvestigationTypes:
Read access to this InvestigationType is not allowed.

[Shelly Ren]

updated SNS IDS path Refs #8811

Changeset: a22bdfbac84a89a8e5487d1cb9a05fd0a70f6154

[Shelly Ren]

Updated SNS IDS path; commented out SNS prefixes for archives.

[Peter Peterson]

Merge remote branch 'origin/feature/8811_icat_sns'

Full changeset: ​5f4aa8457c5e251946a2446a19d458ffffc0de35

[Roman Tolchenov]

Re #8811. Plotting of spectra

Changeset: 34108829065c39817dc3ac16ffccf2cfee35dcea

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​9655