make_validation_report#
- astropy.io.votable.validator.make_validation_report(urls=None, destdir='astropy.io.votable.validator.results', multiprocess=True, stilts=None)[source]#
Validates a large collection of web-accessible VOTable files.
Generates a report as a directory tree of HTML files.
- Parameters:
- urls
list
ofstr
, optional If provided, is a list of HTTP urls to download VOTable files from. If not provided, a built-in set of ~22,000 urls compiled by HEASARC will be used.
- destdirpath-like object, optional
The directory to write the report to. By default, this is a directory called
'results'
in the current directory. If the directory does not exist, it will be created.- multiprocessbool, optional
If
True
(default), perform validations in parallel using all of the cores on this machine.- stiltspath-like object, optional
To perform validation with
votlint
from the Java-based STILTS VOTable parser, in addition toastropy.io.votable
, set this to the path of the'stilts.jar'
file.java
on the system shell path will be used to run it.
- urls
Notes
Downloads of each given URL will be performed only once and cached locally in destdir. To refresh the cache, remove destdir first.