AstroPixCandidateInput

class toasty.pipeline.astropix.AstroPixCandidateInput(json_dict)

Bases: CandidateInput

A CandidateInput obtained from an AstroPix query.

Methods Summary

get_unique_id()	Get an ID for this image that will be unique in its toasty.pipeline.ImageSource.
save(stream)	Serialize candidate information for future processing

Methods Documentation

get_unique_id()

Get an ID for this image that will be unique in its toasty.pipeline.ImageSource.

Returns:

An identifier as a string. Should be limited to path-friendly

characters, i.e. ASCII without spaces.

save(stream)

Serialize candidate information for future processing

Parameters:

streamwriteable stream accepting bytes

The stream into which the candidate information should be serialized.

Returns:

None.

Raises:

May raise toasty.pipeline.NotActionableError if it turns out that this

candidate is not one that can be imported into WWT.