I’ve downloaded a DataResource EntityStore from the Wolfram Data Depository, specifically, the ResourceObject["General Topology EntityStore"], in the form of the package General-Topology-EntityStore.wl`.
I know how to use $EntityStores to use this EntityStore within a given Mathematica session.
But exactly how do I use the Wolfram Language, within Mathematica, to make this EntityStore into a local persistent object?
If you’ve already downloaded the file “General-Topology-EntityStore.wl” linked to from here, then all you need to do in your notebook is run this command
store = << "~/Downloads/General-Topology-EntityStore.wl"; (* or wherever you downloaded the data to *)
AppendTo[$EntityStores, << store]
and then you can access all the data via EntityValue
That is precisely the location to which the .wl file was downloaded and (temporarily) resides. But…
<< "~/Downloads/General-Topology-EntityStore.wl" gives a $Failed message; and$EntityStoresseems to be localized to the particular session rather than persisting across sessions.@Murray Eisenberg First you need to figure out why you get $Failed when trying to Get the file (<<).
Do you get True from FileExistsQ["~/Downloads/General-Topology-EntityStore.wl"]? What happens when you try to use Import instead of Get?
As to the persistence - I think that is just the way $EntityStores was designed. If you solve the problem above and are able to read in the store using Get, then you could add the line AppendTo code above to your “~/Library/Mathematica/Kernel/init.m” file and it would be available via EntityValue every time you start a kernel
OK, I can do the Get for the .wl now — have no idea why it didn’t work yesterday! — and then successfully evaluating AppendTo[$EntityStores, store].
But after quitting the Mathematica session and starting a new session, once again $EntityStores is empty.
Is there some Option I need to set in order make the objects persistent?
I don’t believe there is a way to make the new store permanent, I think at startup the $EntityStores is empty by design.
But you can add the relevant code to your .init file, where you can keep any code you want executed when the kernel starts. I have tons of stuff in my init file, little helper functions I find to be useful.
To find the init file, run
SystemOpen@Echo @ FileNameJoin[{$UserBaseDirectory, "Kernel", "init.m"}]
add the lines
store = Get[ "~/Downloads/General-Topology-EntityStore.wl" ];
AppendTo[ $EntityStores , store];
And then when you restart your kernel you should be able to run
EntityValue["GeneralTopologyTheorem", "Activate"] // Activate;
Entity["GeneralTopologyTheorem", "ClassicalAscolisTheorem"]["QualifyingObjects"]
and get the result. There isn’t a way to have the “Activate” code run beforehand, since the EntityValue framework is loaded after the init.m file is read.
Yes, I do understand how to add code to init.m so as to load files automatically.
What I obviously do not understand, and the Documentation Center has been of very little help on this, is how to utilize the new(er) LocalObject, LocalObjects, LocalCache, etc. I note that $LocalBase points to my folder:
~/Library/Wolfram/Objects
My expectation is that there must be some way to make “General-Topology-EntityStore” available there, for call on demand, without my having to modify init.m.
@Murray Eisenberg I would like to know how was the dataset downloaded to the local system. Could you please help me with this?
Thank you
The .wl file was downloaded directly from https://datarepository.wolframcloud.com.
Is something like the following on the right track?
ro = ResourceObject["General Topology EntityStore"];
store = ResourceData[ro, "EntityStore"];
PersistentValue["GeneralTopologyEntityStore"] = store;
Then
Quit[]
in a new session:
AppendTo[$EntityStores, PersistentValue["GeneralTopologyEntityStore"]];
RandomEntity["GeneralTopologyConcept"]
(* Entity["GeneralTopologyConcept", "SpaceWithTopologyOfPointwiseConvergence"]*)
Yes, that’s exactly what I was looking for! Thank you.