Re: Launching IDV from command line

• To: Park Taezoon <tzpark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Launching IDV from command line
• From: Jeff McWhirter <jeffmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:20:41 -0700

Park Taezoon wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to launch IDV from the command line with specified data
> to display it. The data is served by THREDDS server, so I would like
> to point the URL address for the data.
> I've tried to launch it by the following command
>
> java -Xmx1300m -jar idv.jar -data
> http://shelf.rcac.purdue.edu:8080/thredds/fileServer/KAMX/KAMX_20070227_1644
>
>
>
> but IDV does not display the data. Instead, it just reads the data as
> a binary. Is there any way that I can specify the data type and how
> the data is visualized from the command line?
>
First, you need to tell the idv what kind of data is the url. You can do
this through an undocumented feature of the -data argument
by adding a "type:<the data source type:..." before the url:
idv -data
"type:file.radar:http://shelf.rcac.purdue.edu:8080/thredds/fileServer/KAMX/KAMX_20070227_1644";

The data source types are those listed in the isl documentation:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/release/stable/docs/userguide/isl/datasources.txt

Now, you can also tell the idv to create a display for whatever data is
loaded with the -display argument:

idv -data
"type:file.radar:http://shelf.rcac.purdue.edu:8080/thredds/fileServer/KAMX/KAMX_20070227_1644";
-display Reflectivity radarsweep2d

This takes two arguments. The first is the name of the field in the data
source. The second is the type of display, listed here:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/release/stable/docs/userguide/isl/controls.txt


Or, you can create an isl file:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/release/stable/docs/userguide/isl/DataAndDisplays.html

and run it in interactive mode:
idv -islinteractive <isl file>

This gives you more flexibility in creating displays, loading data with
multiple urls, etc.

-Jeff

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  • Launching IDV from command line
    • From: Park Taezoon