Merge pull request #140 from AllenNeuralDynamics/release-v0.17.1

Release v0.17.1

src/aind_metadata_mapper/__init__.py

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """Init package"""
 
-__version__ = "0.17.0"
+__version__ = "0.17.1"

src/aind_metadata_mapper/core.py

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ def __call__(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
 class BaseJobSettings(BaseSettings):
     """Parent class for generating settings from a config file."""
 
-    user_settings_config_file: Optional[Path] = Field(
+    user_settings_config_file: Optional[Union[Path, str]] = Field(
         default=None,
         repr=False,
         description="Optionally pull settings from a local config file.",

src/aind_metadata_mapper/gather_metadata.py

@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ def __init__(self, settings: JobSettings):
         settings : JobSettings
         """
         self.settings = settings
+        # convert metadata_str to Path object
+        if isinstance(self.settings.metadata_dir, str):
+            self.settings.metadata_dir = Path(self.settings.metadata_dir)
 
     def _does_file_exist_in_user_defined_dir(self, file_name: str) -> bool:
         """

src/aind_metadata_mapper/models.py

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ class JobSettings(BaseJobSettings):
     processing_settings: Optional[ProcessingSettings] = None
     metadata_settings: Optional[MetadataSettings] = None
     directory_to_write_to: Path
-    metadata_dir: Optional[Path] = Field(
+    metadata_dir: Optional[Union[Path, str]] = Field(
         default=None,
         description="Optional path where user defined metadata files might be",
     )