Enh/getcachednamespaces

[oruebel]

Motivation

#1431

Relate to dandi/dandi-cli#917

This PR extracts the code to determine the cached extension namespace to use for validation from the main function of the command line validator to a separate function so that the code can be used outside to validate files against cached namespaces.

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[oruebel]

@rly this issue would be good to address in the next minor release

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[rly]

@oruebel what do you think about also extracting most of the code in __main__ in src/pynwb/validate.py to a function that takes as inputs the arguments passed into the CLI function. Then a user can basically call the CLI script using Python without using the shell.

[oruebel]

what do you think about also extracting most of the code in __main__ in src/pynwb/validate.py to a function

that makes sense

[bendichter]

We agreed to incorporate this feature into validate

[yarikoptic]

would this PR be merged/released some time soon?

[CodyCBakerPhD]

@yarikoptic I'm close to finishing something very similar that also integrates with the dandi.pynwb_utils.validate, look for that in next day or so

[jwodder]

Pointed out some minor coding improvements.

[rly]

Pointed out some minor coding improvements.

Thanks, @jwodder !

[yarikoptic]

this one is open since July -- any plans to finalize/release it ?

[oruebel]

this one is open since July -- any plans to finalize/release it ?

@yarikoptic thanks for following up. I think this one got put on hold while #1494 was being worked out and I think that PR may potentially already address that issue. I'll bring it up during our developer meeting tomorrow to see whether this PR should be merged or whether it should be closed in favor of #1494

[CodyCBakerPhD]

@yarikoptic This has indeed already been merged in #1511, this can be closed here and I'll get a PR up on the dandi-cli to adjust the API calls to have this functionality

[oruebel]

Closing this PR since this has been addressed in #1511