Introduction

A new XNAT client that exposes XNAT objects/functions as python objects/functions.

Getting started

To install just use the setup.py normally:

python setup.py install

To get started, create a connection and start querying:

>>> import xnat
>>> session = xnat.connect('https://central.xnat.org', user="", password="")
>>> session.projects['Sample_DICOM'].subjects
>>> session.disconnect()

To see all options for creating connections see the xnat.connect().

The XNAT session is the main class for interacting with XNAT. It contains the main communication functions.

When using IPython most functionality can be figured out by looking at the available attributes/methods of the returned objects.

Credentials

To store credentials this module uses the .netrc file. This file contains login information and should be accessible ONLY by the user (if not, the module with throw an error to let you know the file is unsafe).

Status

Currently we do not support the creation of Projects, Subjects, Experiments, etc via code. You can create resources and uploads files to them. Also it is possible to import data via the import service (upload a zip file). There is also support for working with the prearchive (reading, moving, deleting and archiving).

There is virtuall no documentation or testing, this is a known limitation.