talegari/safer

Connection 'retrieve_object'

TenanATC opened this issue · 3 comments

TenanATC commented

Is it possible for the 'conn' argument in 'retrieve_object' to be a URL or other non-local location?

Reading the files from anything other than a local file system returns "Path ... does not exist". Is this functionality that can easily be added either within safer or is there a work-around?

Thanks!
Matt

TenanATC commented

Is it possible for the 'conn' argument in 'retrieve_object' to be a URL or other non-local location?

Reading the files from anything other than a local file system returns "Path ... does not exist". Is this functionality that can easily be added either within safer or is there a work-around?

Thanks!
Matt

There is actually an easy work-around for this by specifying the connection type with url(). I wonder if this is worth adding or if it is something the end-user should just add when necessary?

EDIT: This appears to only work with ascii files in my current (limited) experience.

talegari commented

@TenanATC Thanks for pointing out this issue.

Using url() from the user end might be a good idea to keep a connection input generic enough. I have not really worked with url based connections, please suggest if you ideas to test this feature out.

talegari commented

Using url() from the user end might be a good idea