API documentation for non-spreadsheet runs

[pbeaucage]

It is frequently desired or required to run RSoXS scans outside the context of a spreadsheet, for example:

• when using user-supplied holders in the TEM port
• (hypothetical) when using user-supplied sample holders in the traditional positioning port
• performing alignment-type scans that are outside the envisioned scope of the rsoxs_scans package, for example grazing incidence, CDSAXS-style rotation series, HDR exposure series for DAFS-style RSoXS measurements, etc.

This is presently medium-level supported by the existing scan scheme, full_carbon_scan, etc.

Is API-level access to this package possible?
If so, can some documentation be generated of how rsoxs_scans is used to interactively conduct scans from an ipython session or similar, rather than through spreadsheets?
If not, will API support for the legacy RSoXS scans be maintained indefinitely?

[EliotGann]

yes, there are plans which wrap these in the rsoxs module. do_rsoxs, do_spiral, do_nexafs. each with kwargs of the column names should work just the same as from the spreadsheet. the legacy RSoXS scans have been removed and there is no plan to allow them back currently.

[EliotGann]

https://github.com/NSLS-II-SST/rsoxs/blob/new-scan-scheme/rsoxs/Functions/rsoxs_plans.py is the integration of the beamline code to this repo

[EliotGann]

I understand that this is essentially blueskyifying bluesky ... we need a message bus to run our message bus to run our message bus ...