The Architecta Mediaflux Client

As an alternative to pshell, you can directly use the vendor’s command line client. This may be desirable in cases where pshell does not support the full range of Mediaflux commands or command options.

Setup

Obtain the client aterm.jar from the Mediaflux server system path:

pshell> get /system/apps/aterm.jar

Create a config file eg aterm.cfg containing:

host=data.pawsey.org.au
transport=https
port=443
domain=ivec
user=<MyPawseyUsername>

If you have a secure token (aka delegate) you can also add the following for password-less authentication:

token=abc123

Run the client (which will prompt for your Pawsey username and password) using:

Requires Java >=1.7

java -Dmf.cfg=aterm.cfg -jar aterm.jar nogui

Example Mediaflux service calls

Get the full amount of metadata information for an asset:

aterm> asset.get :id 1234

Download a file:

aterm> asset.get :id 1234 :out "myfile.zip"

Upload a file:

aterm> asset.create :namespace "/projects/my project" :name "remote.txt" :in "file://home/folder/local.txt"

Upload a whole local folder:

aterm> import -namespace "/projects/my project" /mnt/local/data_directory_1