only use the .ods metadata input when available, not .yaml

BouchardLab / nsds_lab_to_nwb

Python package to convert NSDS Lab data to NWB files.

https://nsds-lab-to-nwb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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only use the .ods metadata input when available, not .yaml #132

Closed jihyunbak closed 2 years ago

jihyunbak commented 2 years ago

and optionally save converted .yaml file for human convenience only

reasons:

if we don't have the permission to write the yaml file, it could fail gracefully
in case metadata input has to be changed, we can only update the .ods file

jihyunbak commented 2 years ago

related discussion: what to do when we later find out that a block is actually not "clean"

current solution: go back to the metadata spreadsheet, annotate, and update the .ods metadata

jihyunbak commented 2 years ago

@jthermiz I guess we can tweak ExpNoteReader.dump_yaml() to return the dictionary content by default, and/or write the yaml file (possibly wrapped in a try-except)