Model object

The Model object comes with three sets of methods: CRUD methods, I/O methods and kind specific methods.

CRUD methods

Crud methods are used to interact with the entity object in the backend or locally.

save(): Save or update the entity into the backend.
export(): Export the entity locally as yaml file.
refresh(): Refresh (read) the entity from the backend.

`save`

Save entity into backend.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
`update`	`bool`	Flag to indicate update.	`False`

Returns:

Type	Description
`MaterialEntity`	Entity saved.

`export`

Export object as a YAML file.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
`filename`	`str`	Name of the export YAML file. If not specified, the default value is used.	`None`

Returns:

Type	Description
`None`

`refresh`

Refresh object from backend.

Returns:

Type	Description
`ContextEntity`	Entity refreshed.

I/O methods

I/O methods are used to handle objects as files.

as_file(): Dowloads the model into a local temporary destination
download(): Downloads the model into a specified path
upload(): Uploads the model to model spec path

`as_file`

Get object as file(s). It downloads the object from storage in a temporary folder and returns the list of downloaded files paths.

Returns:

Type	Description
`list[str]`	List of file paths.

`download`

This function downloads one or more file from storage on local machine. It looks inside the object's status for the file(s) path under files attribute. If it does not find it, it will try to download what it can from spec.path. The files are downloaded into a destination folder. If the destination is not specified, it will set by default under the context path as '/', e.g. './dataitem'. The overwrite flag allows to overwrite existing file(s) in the destination folder.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
`destination`	`str`	Destination path as filename or directory.	`None`
`overwrite`	`bool`	Specify if overwrite existing file(s). If file(s) already exist and overwrite is False, it will raise an error.	`False`

Returns:

Type	Description
`str`	Downloaded path.

Examples:

Download a single file:

>>> entity.status.files[0]
{
    "path ": "data.csv",
    "name ": "data.csv",
    "content_type ": "text/csv;charset=utf-8 "
}
>>> path = entity.download()
>>> print(path)
dataitem/data.csv

`upload`

Upload object from given local path to spec path destination. Source must be a local path. If the path is a folder, destination path (object's spec path) must be a folder or a partition ending with '/' (s3).

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
`source`	`str \| list[str]`	Local filepath, directory or list of filepaths.	required

Returns:

Type	Description
`None`

Examples:

Upload a single file:

>>> entity.spec.path = 's3://bucket/data.csv'
>>> entity.upload('./data.csv')

Upload a folder:

>>> entity.spec.path = 's3://bucket/data/'
>>> entity.upload('./data')

Kind specific methods

Kind specific methods are used to express potential behaviors of different object kinds. See the kinds section for more information.