Ion Torrent: Use REST API to change experiment storage_options based on result PK

keepers.py

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
import json
import sys

server = "http://fall.local"

auth = HTTPBasicAuth('username', 'password')

#get this from somewhere else, this is just an example , maybe from sys.argv[1]
key = 4

#find the parent experiment for the given result (report)
parent = requests.get(server + "/rundb/api/v1/results/" + str(key) +"/?format=json", auth=auth)

experiment =  parent.json()["experiment"]

"""
#From the TS source code
STORAGE_CHOICES = (
        ('KI', 'Keep'),
        ('A', 'Archive Raw'),
        ('D', 'Delete Raw'),
)
"""

#KI is keep
storage_options = json.dumps({"storage_options": "KI"})

#the patch will update the storage_options field
r = requests.patch(server + experiment + "/?format=json", data=storage_options,  auth=auth )

#now just check that is it right
check = requests.get(server + experiment + "/?format=json")
print "Experiment" , check.json()["id"] , check.json()["storage_options"]