This package is used for synching certain kinds of metadata from other data sources into an ISPyB database. Currently, the synched metadata is:
- proposals
- sessions
- session types
- persons
- session - person associations
- proposal - person associations
- staff user permissions based on LDAP groups
See the Wiki for details.
- Python 2.7
- The mysql.connector Python package
- The cx_Oracle Python package and an Oracle client (for reading the user database)
- An ISPyB database on either MariaDB 10.0+ or MySQL 5.6+
- A Diamond user database