Add HEASARC service

astroquery/heasarc/__init__.py

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+# Licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license - see LICENSE.rst
+"""
+HEASARC
+-------
+
+The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC)
+is the primary archive for NASA's (and other space agencies') missions.
+
+The initial version of this was coded in a sprint at the
+"Python in astronomy" workshop in April 2015 by Jean-Christophe Leyder,
+Abigail Stevens, Antonio Martin-Carrillo and Christoph Deil.
+"""
+from astropy import config as _config
+
+
+class Conf(_config.ConfigNamespace):
+    """
+    Configuration parameters for `astroquery.heasarc`.
+    """
+    server = _config.ConfigItem(
+        ['http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query_noredir.pl'],
+        'Name of the HEASARC server to use.'
+        )
+    timeout = _config.ConfigItem(
+        30,
+        'Time limit for connecting to HEASARC server.'
+        )
+
+conf = Conf()
+
+from .core import Heasarc, HeasarcClass
+
+__all__ = ['Heasarc', 'HeasarcClass',
+           'Conf', 'conf',
+           ]

astroquery/heasarc/core.py

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+# Licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license - see LICENSE.rst
+from __future__ import print_function
+from astropy.extern.six import BytesIO
+from astropy.table import Table
+from ..query import BaseQuery
+from ..utils import commons
+from ..utils import async_to_sync
+from . import conf
+
+__all__ = ['Heasarc', 'HeasarcClass']
+
+
+@async_to_sync
+class HeasarcClass(BaseQuery):
+    """HEASARC query class.
+    """
+
+    URL = conf.server
+    TIMEOUT = conf.timeout
+
+    def query_object_async(self, object_name, mission, cache=True,
+                           get_query_payload=False):
+        """TODO: document this!
+
+        (maybe start by copying over from some other service.)
+        """
+        request_payload = dict()
+        request_payload['object_name'] = object_name
+        request_payload['tablehead'] = 'BATCHRETRIEVALCATALOG_2.0 {}'.format(mission)
+        request_payload['Action'] = 'Query'
+        request_payload['displaymode'] = 'FitsDisplay'
+
+        if get_query_payload:
+            return request_payload
+
+        response = self._request('GET', self.URL, params=request_payload,
+                                 timeout=self.TIMEOUT, cache=cache)
+        return response
+
+    def _parse_result(self, response, verbose=False):
+        # if verbose is False then suppress any VOTable related warnings
+        if not verbose:
+            commons.suppress_vo_warnings()
+
+        data = BytesIO(response.content)
+        table = Table.read(data, hdu=1)
+        return table
+
+
+Heasarc = HeasarcClass()

astroquery/heasarc/tests/setup_package.py

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+# Licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license - see LICENSE.rst
+import os
+
+
+def get_package_data():
+    paths = [os.path.join('data', '*.dat'),
+             os.path.join('data', '*.xml'),
+             ]
+    return {'astroquery.heasarc.tests': paths}

astroquery/heasarc/tests/test_heasarc.py

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+#Licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license - see LICENSE.rst
+from __future__ import print_function

astroquery/heasarc/tests/test_heasarc_remote.py

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+# Licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license - see LICENSE.rst
+from __future__ import print_function
+from astropy.tests.helper import remote_data, pytest
+from ...heasarc import Heasarc
+
+@remote_data
+class TestHeasarc:
+
+    def test_basic_example(self):
+        mission = 'rospublic'
+        object_name = '3c273'
+
+        heasarc = Heasarc()
+        table = heasarc.query_object(object_name, mission=mission)
+
+        assert len(table) == 1000

docs/heasarc/heasarc.rst

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+.. doctest-skip-all
+
+.. _astroquery.heasarc:
+
+**************************************
+HEASARC Queries (`astroquery.heasarc`)
+**************************************
+
+Getting started
+===============
+
+This is a python interface for querying the
+`HEASARC <http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/>`__
+archive web service.
+
+The capabilities are currently very limited ... feature requests and contributions welcome!
+
+Getting lists of available datasets
+-----------------------------------
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    >>> from astroquery.heasarc import Heasarc
+    >>> heasarc = Heasarc()
+    >>> mission = 'rospublic'
+    >>> object_name = '3c273'
+    >>> table = heasarc.query_object(object_name, mission=mission)
+    >>> table[:3].pprint()
+
+
+Downloading identified datasets
+-------------------------------
+
+Not implemented yet.
+
+Reference/API
+=============
+
+.. automodapi:: astroquery.heasarc
+    :no-inheritance-diagram:

docs/index.rst

@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ The following modules have been completed using a common API:
   alma/alma.rst
   skyview/skyview.rst
   nasa_ads/nasa_ads.rst
+  heasarc/heasarc.rst
 
 These others are functional, but do not follow a common & consistent API:
 
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   alma/alma.rst
   eso/eso.rst
   fermi/fermi.rst
+  heasarc/heasarc.rst
   irsa/irsa.rst
   magpis/magpis.rst
   ned/ned.rst