pyicat_plus.metadata.definitions.icat_fields_source

pyicat_plus.metadata.definitions.icat_fields_source(url=None)

Get XML description of all ICAT fields from a URL.

Parameters:

url (Optional[str]) – supports filenames or strings with the scheme prefix “file://”, “xml://” or anything the requests library can handle.

Return type:

Union[str, StringIO]

Returns:

filename or a file object