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NAME

       stilts-tapresume - Resumes a previous query to a Table Access Protocol server

SYNOPSIS

       stilts tapresume [joburl=<url-value>] [compress=true|false] [poll=<millisec>]
                        [progress=true|false] [delete=finished|never|always|now] [ocmd=<cmds>]
                        [omode=out|meta|stats|count|checksum|cgi|discard|topcat|samp|tosql|gui]
                        [out=<out-table>] [ofmt=<out-format>]

DESCRIPTION

       tapresume can resume monitoring and data  retrieval  from  an  asynchronous  Table  Access
       Protocol  query  which  has already been submitted. TAP is a Virtual Observatory protocol.
       Such a pre-existing query may have been submitted by  the  tapquery  command  or  by  some
       completely  different  mechanism. It essentially does the same job as tapquery but without
       the job submission stage. It waits until the query has completed, and then  retrieves  the
       table result and processes it in accordance with the supplied parameters. The query may or
       may not be deleted from the server as part of the operation.

OPTIONS

       joburl=<url-value>
              The URL of a job created by submission of a TAP query which was created earlier and
              has  not  yet  been deleted (by the client) or destroyed (by the server). This will
              usually be of the  form  <tap-url>/async/<job-id>.  You  can  also  find  out,  and
              possibly retrieve results from the job by pointing a web browser at this URL.

       compress=true|false
              If  true,  the  service  is  requested  to  provide  HTTP-level compression for the
              response stream (Accept-Encoding header is set to "gzip", see RFC 2616). This  does
              not  guarantee that compression will happen but if the service honours this request
              it may result in a smaller amount  of  network  traffic  at  the  expense  of  more
              processing on the server and client.

       poll=<millisec>
              Interval  to  wait  between  polling  attempts,  in  milliseconds. Asynchronous TAP
              queries can only find out when they are complete by repeatedly polling  the  server
              to  find  out  the  job's  status.  This parameter allows you to set how often that
              happens. Attempts to set it too low (<50) will be rejected on the  assumption  that
              you're thinking in seconds.

       progress=true|false
              If  this  parameter is set true, progress of the job is reported to standard output
              as it happens.

       delete=finished|never|always|now
              Determines under what circumstances the UWS job is to be deleted  from  the  server
              when  its data is no longer required. If it is not deleted, then the job is left on
              the TAP server and it can be accessed via the normal UWS REST  endpoints  or  using
              tapresume until it is destroyed by the server.

              Possible values:

                * finished: delete only if the job finished, successfully or not

                * never: do not delete

                * always: delete on command exit

                * now: delete and return immediately

       ocmd=<cmds>
              Specifies  processing  to  be  performed  on  the  output  table,  after  all other
              processing has taken place. The value of this parameter  is  one  or  more  of  the
              filter  commands  described  in  SUN/256.  If  more than one is given, they must be
              separated by semicolon characters (";"). This parameter can  be  repeated  multiple
              times on the same command line to build up a list of processing steps. The sequence
              of commands given in this way defines the processing pipeline which is performed on
              the table.

              Commands may alteratively be supplied in an external file, by using the indirection
              character '@'. Thus a value of "@filename" causes the file filename to be read  for
              a  list of filter commands to execute. The commands in the file may be separated by
              newline characters and/or semicolons, and lines which are blank or which start with
              a '#' character are ignored.

       omode=out|meta|stats|count|checksum|cgi|discard|topcat|samp|tosql|gui
              The  mode  in which the result table will be output. The default mode is out, which
              means that the result will be written as a new  table  to  disk  or  elsewhere,  as
              determined  by the out and ofmt parameters. However, there are other possibilities,
              which correspond to uses to which a table can be put other than outputting it, such
              as  displaying  metadata,  calculating  statistics, or populating a table in an SQL
              database. For some values of this parameter,  additional  parameters  (<mode-args>)
              are required to determine the exact behaviour.

              Possible values are

                * out

                * meta

                * stats

                * count

                * checksum

                * cgi

                * discard

                * topcat

                * samp

                * tosql

                * gui
               Use the help=omode flag or see SUN/256 for more information.

       out=<out-table>
              The  location of the output table. This is usually a filename to write to. If it is
              equal to the special value "-" (the default) the output table will  be  written  to
              standard output.

              This parameter must only be given if omode has its default value of "out".

       ofmt=<out-format>
              Specifies  the format in which the output table will be written (one of the ones in
              SUN/256 - matching is case-insensitive and you can use just the first few letters).
              If  it  has the special value "(auto)" (the default), then the output filename will
              be examined to try to guess what sort of file is required usually by looking at the
              extension. If it's not obvious from the filename what output format is intended, an
              error will result.

              This parameter must only be given if omode has its default value of "out".

SEE ALSO

       stilts(1)

       If the package stilts-doc is installed, the full documentation  SUN/256  is  available  in
       HTML format:
       file:///usr/share/doc/stilts/sun256/index.html

VERSION

       STILTS version 3.4.3-debian

       This  is  the  Debian  version  of Stilts, which lack the support of some file formats and
       network protocols. For differences see
       file:///usr/share/doc/stilts/README.Debian

AUTHOR

       Mark Taylor (Bristol University)

                                             Mar 2017                         STILTS-TAPRESUME(1)