SLAResults

class pyvo.dal.SLAResults(votable, *, url=None, session=None)

Bases: DALResults

The list of matching spectral lines resulting from a spectal line catalog (SLA) query. Each record contains a set of metadata that describes a source or observation within the requested circular region (i.e. a “cone”). The number of records in the results is available by passing it to the Python built-in len() function.

This class supports iterable semantics; thus, individual records (in the form of SLARecord instances) are typically accessed by iterating over an SLAResults instance.

Alternatively, records can be accessed randomly via getrecord() or through a Python Database API (v2) Cursor (via cursor()). Column-based data access is possible via the getcolumn() method.

SLAResults is essentially a wrapper around an Astropy votable TableElement instance where the columns contain the various metadata describing the images. One can access that VOTable directly via the votable attribute. Thus, when one retrieves a whole column via getcolumn(), the result is a Numpy array. Alternatively, one can manipulate the results as an Astropy Table via the following conversion:

table = results.votable.to_table()

SLAResults supports the array item operator [...] in a read-only context. When the argument is numerical, the result is an SLARecord instance, representing the record at the position given by the numerical index. If the argument is a string, it is interpreted as the name of a column, and the data from the column matching that name is returned as a Numpy array.

initialize the cursor. This constructor is not typically called by directly applications; rather an instance is obtained from calling a DALQuery’s execute().

Parameters:

votablestr

the service response parsed into an astropy.io.votable.tree.VOTableFile instance.

urlstr

the URL that produced the response

sessionobject

optional session to use for network requests

Raises:

DALFormatError

if the response VOTable does not contain a response table

See also

DALFormatError

Methods Summary

getrecord(index)

return a representation of a sla result record that follows dictionary semantics.

Methods Documentation

getrecord(index)

return a representation of a sla result record that follows dictionary semantics. The keys of the dictionary are those returned by this instance’s fieldnames attribute. The returned record has additional image-specific properties

Parameters:

indexint

the integer index of the desired record where 0 returns the first record

Returns:

SLARecord

a dictionary-like wrapper containing the result record metadata.

Raises:

IndexError

if index is negative or equal or larger than the number of rows in the result table.

See also

Record