Question: How to access files from within a notebook?

[tharwan]

Maybe I am missing something obvious, but I could not figure out how to access a file from a fs I connected to from within a notebook. Is this possible?

More specifically, I would like to avoid users having to enter the credentials of the file shares into their notebooks and instead us the already present connection to the share.

[timkpaine]

This has been an open question for us since day 1, we were inspired by https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-data-explorer but have yet to come up with a totally coherent UX around what this would look like for jupyter-fs. One of the main problems is that certain interactions are not possible (e.g. can't open a notebook via certain backends since the kernel won't necessarily be on the same filesystem as the notebook).

[tharwan]

Thanks for the quick reply! So that means the answer is no? I have re-authenticate from within the notebook?

[timkpaine]

Thanks for the quick reply! So that means the answer is no? I have re-authenticate from within the notebook?

there is not yet a share interface via jupyter-fs inside the notebook itself. Once #102 is done, we will probably make something available in the notebook like:

import jupyterfs
fsspecs = jupyterfs.get_backends()
s3_fsspec = fsspecs["mys3backend"]

but this is note done. For now, you'll need to access inside a notebook independently.

[tharwan]

Thanks!

[timkpaine]

I'm going to keep this open as I realize we never made a public ticket about this