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Fixed dataset download re-linking. #1989
Fixed dataset download re-linking. #1989
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print(f"Note, {default_data_path} is a symbolic link that points to {data_path}.") | ||
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os.makedirs(data_path, exist_ok=True) |
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What kind of errors can arise here? I think it would just be permission errors?
What is the advantage of printing these messages over just raising the error?
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To be honest, I didn't ask myself these questions during fixing, but it seems to me that this is a "graceful way" to exit a program. Exceptions should be raised on program errors. Here everything is fine, user specified wrong path and we inform him about it. Why the program should fail with exception?
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@rpartsey probably should still be restricted to IOException? LIke no reason to catch SystemError exceptions from Python etc.
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Thanks for this fix. 👍
Motivation and Context
Assume you already have all the assets downloaded.
When the habitat-sim data download utility is run again for the same type of assets without specifying '--data-path' argument, the
data_path
variable defaults todata_path = os.path.abspath("./data/")
andos.path.exists(data_path)
is True for a data symlink. Code checks whether the assets exist the same wayos.path.exists(data_path path_to_asset)
and command also returns True and all of the assets are accessible via symlink (note that at this step some of the assets in /path/to/data may be symlinks but all will have"/path/to/data"
as their prefix (as expected)). However, then the symlinks to the assets are unlinked and linked back but with "/path/to/habitat-lab/data" .All this is caused because at the beginning, this command
os.path.abspath("./data/")
treats data not as symlink but as actual path (directory). More context in this Slack thread.How Has This Been Tested
Types of changes
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