STIL Integration

STIL, the Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library, is a Java API for working with astronomical data, including VOTable, FITS, SQL, ASCII, CSV, CDF, and GBIN formats. This notebook shows how to load STIL, and configure BeakerX to display STIL StarTables with the BeakerX interactive table widget.



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%classpath add mvn commons-io commons-io 2.6

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils

stilUrl = "http://www.star.bristol.ac.uk/~mbt/stil/stil.jar"
stilFile = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") + "/stilFiles/stil.jar"
FileUtils.copyURLToFile(new URL(stilUrl), new File(stilFile));

%classpath add dynamic stilFile



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import uk.ac.starlink.table.StarTable
import uk.ac.starlink.table.Tables
import jupyter.Displayer
import jupyter.Displayers

Displayers.register(StarTable.class, new Displayer<StarTable>() {
        
    def getColumnNames(t){
        names = []
        nCol = t.getColumnCount();
        for ( int icol = 0; icol < nCol; icol++ ) {
            names.add(t.getColumnInfo(icol).getName())
        }
        names   
    }
    
    @Override
    public Map<String, String> display(StarTable table) {
        
        columnNames = getColumnNames(table)
        columnInfos = Tables.getColumnInfos(table)
        MAXCHAR = 64
        
        new TableDisplay(
                (int)table.getRowCount(),
                (int)table.getColumnCount(),
                columnNames,
                new TableDisplay.Element() {
                  @Override
                  public String get(int columnIndex, int rowIndex) {
                    Object cell = table.getCell(rowIndex, columnIndex);
                    return columnInfos[columnIndex].formatValue(cell, MAXCHAR)
                  }
                }
        ).display();
        return OutputCell.DISPLAYER_HIDDEN;
      }
    });



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import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils

messierUrl = "http://andromeda.star.bristol.ac.uk/data/messier.csv"
messierFile = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") + "/stilFiles/messier.csv"
FileUtils.copyURLToFile(new URL(messierUrl), new File(messierFile));
"Done"



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import uk.ac.starlink.table.StarTable
import uk.ac.starlink.table.StarTableFactory
import uk.ac.starlink.table.Tables

starTable = new StarTableFactory().makeStarTable( messierFile, "csv" );
starTable = Tables.randomTable(starTable)