custom ipython magic that hooks into girder + celery functionality.

magic_cell.py

%%girder 

def getUser(login):
    
    from girder.utility.model_importer import ModelImporter
    m = ModelImporter()
    user_query = m.model('user').find({'login' : login})
    user = None
    if user_query.count() == 1:
        user = user_query[0]
    else:
        print 'no user found'
    return user

test_user = getUser('testuser')

from bson import json_util
import json

user_str = json.dumps(test_user, default=json_util.default)

fout = open('/tmp/girder_test.json','w')
fout.write(user_str)
fout.close()