Installation

daris-clients can be downloaded from:

https://gitlab.unimelb.edu.au/resplat-mediaflux/daris-clients/-/releases

There are packages for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. You can download the one matches your operating system and extract it into your local file system.

Add to PATH environment variable

Optionally, you can add the binary directory: daris-clients/bin to your PATH environment variable so that you can execute the commands anywhere.

Configuration

DaRIS server connection details need to be specified in a config file. The default location of the config file is: ~/.Arcitecta/mflux.cfg on Mac OS or Linux; or %userprofile%\.Arcitecta\mflux.cfg on Windows.

Create config file on Windows

Open Command Prompt and type the commands below:

mkdir %userprofile%\.Arcitecta
notepad %userprofile%\.Arcitecta\mflux.cfg

In Notepad, enter the DaRIS connection details:

host=daris.researchsoftware.unimelb.edu.au
transport=https
port=443
domain=YOUR_DOMAIN
user=YOUR_USERNAME

Create config file on Linux/MacOS

Open Terminal and type the command below:

mkdir -p ~/.Arcitecta

Alternatively, you can create and edit the file: ~/.Arcitecta/mflux.cfg using a text editor. The config file should contains the line like below:

host=daris.researchsoftware.unimelb.edu.au
transport=https
port=443
domain=YOUR_DOMAIN
user=YOUR_USERNAME

Remember to substitute YOUR_DOMAIN and YOUR_USERNAME with your actual authentication domain and username.

Usage Examples

Download data from your DaRIS project

daris-download is a command included in daris-clients that can be used to download data from DaRIS. The example below is to download a study from DaRIS:

daris-download 1.7.1.2.1.3

For more details about daris-download command, run

daris-download -h

Import DICOM data into your DaRIS project

daris-dicom-ingest can be used to import local DICOM files into your DaRIS project. See the example below:

daris-dicom-ingest --cid 1.1.96 ~/path/to/my-dicom-files/

where 1.1.96 is the project id.

or if we want to import the data into a specific subject, just specify the subject id instead, for example, 1.1.96.5

daris-dicom-ingest --cid 1.1.96.5 ~/path/to/my-dicom-files/

For more details about daris-dicom-ingest command, run

daris-dicom-ingest -h

Managing data with (DaRIS) command line clients