Implement the DbImporter for the MPDS API (Pauling file) #1238
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The MPDS API only supports a single output format for a query. Either the result of the query is returned as a 'json' object or the result is a concatenation of string formatted cif files. To import CifData nodes, however, we need both the json object to retrieve the required source information, but we also need the raw cif file, as we do not want to reconstruct the structure or cif ourselves from the basic structural data that is provided in the json. As a workaround, we fire the exact same query twice, once asking the result in the json format and the other in the cif format. We add the cif string to the json result entries by cross referencing the source id that is present in both the json entry and the raw cif string. A special MpdsCifEntry will then use that cif string to directly set the contents attribute. This will then prevent a separate HTTP request to the source uri to retrieve the cif content, which would also result in a 429 HTTP error due to too many requests being fired
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Fixes #1237
The MPDS API only supports a single output format for a query. Either
the result of the query is returned as a 'json' object or the result
is a concatenation of string formatted cif files. To import CifData
nodes, however, we need both the json object to retrieve the required
source information, but we also need the raw cif file, as we do not
want to reconstruct the structure or cif ourselves from the basic
structural data that is provided in the json. As a workaround, we
fire the exact same query twice, once asking the result in the json
format and the other in the cif format. We add the cif string to the
json result entries by cross referencing the source id that is present
in both the json entry and the raw cif string. A special
MpdsCifEntrywill then use that cif string to directly set the contents attribute.
This will then prevent a separate HTTP request to the source uri to
retrieve the cif content, which would also result in a 429 HTTP error
due to too many requests being fired