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Also, realized the response took out all of the white space, so you can't tell where to indent. I've attached a text file now. Thanks, Tiffany Meyer AWIPS Lead Software Engineer UCAR-Unidata Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: QVN-243999 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.
#!/awips2/python/bin/python from awips.dataaccess import DataAccessLayer #connect to unidata edex DataAccessLayer.changeEDEXHost("edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu") #get a list of supported data types from the edex types = DataAccessLayer.getSupportedDatatypes() print(types) #create a request and set the data type req = DataAccessLayer.newDataRequest() #req.setDatatype("obs") req.setDatatype("pirep") #print out available parameters param = DataAccessLayer.getAvailableParameters(req) print(param) #set the parameter to turbulence intensity req.setParameters('timeObs', 'longitude', 'latitude', 'flightLevel', 'numLayer', 'turbInten', 'turbTopHeight', 'turbBaseHeight') print(req) #print out available location names locations = DataAccessLayer.getAvailableLocationNames(req) #print(locations) #actually get the data for the request -- this returns an array data = DataAccessLayer.getGeometryData(req) layerCount=0 layerString="\t" header=1 #['flightLevel', 'numLayer', 'timeObs', 'latitude', 'longitude'] #['turbBaseHeight', 'turbTopHeight', 'turbInten'] for d in data: params = d.getParameters() print( params) if('numLayer' in params): dataString="" if(int(d.getString('numLayer')) == 0): layerString="\t" layerCount=0 for p in params: dataString=dataString+","+d.getString(p) dataString=dataString.lstrip(',') print(dataString,"\n",layerString) if('turbInten' in params): if(layerCount == 0): layerString="\t" layerCount=layerCount+1 for p in params: layerString=layerString+","+d.getString(p) layerString=layerString+"\n\t"