Merge pull request #153 from SMI/feature/spacy-download

Add -d switch for spacy script to download data file

nlp/ner_daemon_spacy.py

@@ -202,12 +202,18 @@ def text_generator(data):
     """
     bindip='127.0.0.1'
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description = prog_name)
+    parser.add_argument('-d', '--download', dest='download', action="store", help='Download a SpaCy language model and exit')
     parser.add_argument('-y', '--yaml', dest='yaml', action="store", help='the default.yaml config file')
     parser.add_argument('-m', '--model', dest='model', action="append", help='a SpaCy language model')
     parser.add_argument('-p', '--port', dest='port', action="store", help='port number, default 1881')
     parser.add_argument('-i', '--ip', dest='bindip', action="store", help='IP address/hostname to bind to, default 127.0.0.1')
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
+    if args.download:
+      spacy.cli.download(args.download)
+      quit()
+
+    host_name=''
     port_num = int(args.port) if args.port else default_port
 
     spacy_models = args.model if args.model else [default_spacy_model]