Search Criteria

Search Criteria should be provided to retrieve messages for specified DCPs. Search criteria can be passed either as the path to the search criteria json file or a dict. An example is provided below.

{
  "DRS_SINCE": "now - 1 hour",
  "DRS_UNTIL": "now",
  "SOURCE": [
    "GOES_SELFTIMED",
    "GOES_RANDOM"
  ],
  "DCP_ADDRESS": [
    "address1",
    "address2"
  ]
}

Supported Fields

Only the following search criteria keys are currently supported:

Key	Type	Description
`DRS_SINCE`	`string`	Start time for data query (e.g., `"now - 1 hour"`)
`DRS_UNTIL`	`string`	End time for data query (e.g., `"now"`)
`SOURCE`	`list[string]`	Must be one or both of: `"GOES_SELFTIMED"`, `"GOES_RANDOM"`
`DCP_ADDRESS`	`list[string]`	One or more DCP addresses to query

Warning

⚠️ All other keys in the criteria file will be ignored. For detailed information on the search criteria format, see the opendcs docs.