Asset

The Asset class enables access to the UP42 assets in the storage. Assets are results of orders or results of jobs with download blocks.

Use an existing asset:

asset = up42.initialize_asset(asset_id="8c2dfb4d-bd35-435f-8667-48aea0dce2da")

Attributes

info: dict property readonly

Gets and updates the asset metadata information.

source: dict property readonly

Gets the source of the Asset. One of TASKING, ORDER, BLOCK, UPLOAD.

Methods

download(self, output_directory=None, unpacking=True)

Downloads the asset. Unpacking the downloaded file will happen as default.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
output_directory	Union[str, pathlib.Path]	The file output directory, defaults to the current working directory.	None
unpacking	bool	By default the final result which is in TAR or ZIP archive format will be unpacked.	True

Returns:

Type	Description
List[str]	List of the downloaded asset filepaths.

Source code in up42/asset.py

def download(
    self, output_directory: Union[str, Path, None] = None, unpacking: bool = True
) -> List[str]:
    """
    Downloads the asset. Unpacking the downloaded file will happen as default.

    Args:
        output_directory: The file output directory, defaults to the current working
            directory.
        unpacking: By default the final result which is in TAR or ZIP archive format will be unpacked.

    Returns:
        List of the downloaded asset filepaths.
    """
    logger.info(f"Downloading asset {self.asset_id}")

    if output_directory is None:
        output_directory = (
            Path.cwd() / f"project_{self.auth.project_id}/asset_{self.asset_id}"
        )
    else:
        output_directory = Path(output_directory)
    output_directory.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    logger.info(f"Download directory: {str(output_directory)}")

    download_url = self._get_download_url()
    if unpacking:
        out_filepaths = download_results_from_gcs(
            download_url=download_url,
            output_directory=output_directory,
        )
    else:
        out_filepaths = download_results_from_gcs_without_unpacking(
            download_url=download_url,
            output_directory=output_directory,
        )

    self.results = out_filepaths
    return out_filepaths