Initialisation

Before using transientNamer you need to use the init command to generate a user settings file. Running the following creates a yaml settings file in your home folder under ~/.config/transientNamer/transientNamer.yaml:

transientNamer init

The file is initially populated with transientNamer’s default settings which can be adjusted to your preference.

If at any point the user settings file becomes corrupted or you just want to start afresh, simply trash the transientNamer.yaml file and rerun transientNamer init.

Modifying the Settings

Once created, open the settings file in any text editor and make any modifications needed. For example:

database settings:
    db: myDB
    host: localhost
    user: dbuser
    password: dbpass

astronote-cache: ~/Desktop/astronotes

# FIND IN YOUR USER ACCOUNT SETTING ON TNS : https://www.wis-tns.org
user-agent: 'tns_marker{"XXXX"}'

You will need to register to the TNS to get a unique tns-marker from your account settings on https://www.wis-tns.org. Once you have the tns-marker add it to your settings file.

Basic Python Setup

If you plan to use transientNamer in your own scripts you will first need to parse your settings file and set up logging etc. One quick way to do this is to use the fundamentals package to give you a logger, a settings dictionary and a database connection (if connection details given in settings file):

## SOME BASIC SETUP FOR LOGGING, SETTINGS ETC
from fundamentals import tools
from os.path import expanduser
home = expanduser("~")
settingsFile  = home + "/.config/transientNamer/transientNamer.yaml"
su = tools(
    arguments={"settingsFile": settingsFile},
    docString=__doc__,
)
arguments, settings, log, dbConn = su.setup()