Annotations Import

Import the variable annotations of one or more tables. This can be used to restore annotations that were backed up using Annotations Export.

opal import-annot <CREDENTIALS> [OPTIONS] [EXTRAS]

Options

Option Description
--input INPUT, -in INPUT CSV/TSV input file, typically the output of the export-annot command (default is stdin)
--locale LOCALE, -l LOCALE Destination annotation locale (default is none)
--separator SEPARATOR, -s SEPARATOR Separator char for CSV/TSV format (default is the tabulation character)
--destination DESTINATION, -d DESTINATION Destination project name (default is the one(s) specified in the input file)
--tables TABLES [TABLES ...], -t TABLES [TABLES ...] The list of tables which variables are to be annotated (defaults to all that are found in the input file)
--taxonomies TAXONOMIES [TAXONOMIES ...], -tx TAXONOMIES [TAXONOMIES ...] The list of taxonomy names of interest (default is any that is found in the input file)

Credentials

Authentication can be done by username/password credentials OR by personal access token OR by certificate/private key pair (two-way SSL authentication).

Option Description
--opal OPAL, -o OPAL Opal server base url
--user USER, -u USER Credentials auth: user name (requires a password)
--password PASSWORD, -p PASSWORD Credentials auth: user password (requires a user name)
--token TOKEN, -tk TOKEN Token auth: user’s personal access token
--ssl-cert SSL_CERT, -sc SSL_CERT Two-way SSL auth: certificate/public key file (requires a private key)
--ssl-key SSL_KEY, -sk SSL_KEY Two-way SSL auth: private key file (requires a certificate)

Extras

Option Description
-h, --help Show the command help’s message.
--verbose, -v Verbose output.

Example

Import some annotations to a specified table:

opal import-annot --user administrator --password password --destination Study2 --tables datasetA --input /tmp/area-annotations.tsv