Getting Metadata Into SciCat (The hard way)

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Manual ingestion

The following steps will add a dataset to you system using the API with the linux program curl.

1. Login to the backend. The default password for the ingestor user is aman. Running the command below in the terminal will yield an access token.

 curl -X POST --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Accept: application/json' -d '{"username":"ingestor", "password":"<your_password>"}' 'http://localhost:3000/api/v3/Users/login'

1. Create a json file with the contents below and name it metadata.json

   {
    "creationLocation": "/PSI/SLS/TOMCAT",
    "sourceFolder": "/scratch/devops",
    "type": "raw",
    "ownerGroup":"p16623"
   }
   

2. cat the metadata.json file and pipe it to a curl command. Insert your access token in the command below and run it in the terminal:

cat metadata.json | curl -X POST --header 'Content-Type: application/json'  --header 'Accept: application/json'  -d @-  'http://localhost:3000/api/v3/Datasets?access_token=YOUR_TOKEN_HERE'

There should now be a dataset in your mongoDB instance.