Getting ESO headers fails to retrieve keyword values which include a /

[gmella]

Code tries to figure out the comment splitting on / leaving out the right part reading ESO headers. But keyword values are truncated before / when it includes one or more in its value.

The output of next python code snippet should provide the full instrument name with a revision ID on top of next input values:

HIERARCH ESO INS ID = 'GRAVITY/176642' / Instrument ID.
HIERARCH ESO INS ID = 'PIONIER/$Revision: 350678 $' / Instrument ID.

from astroquery.eso.core import EsoClass
eso = EsoClass()
headers = eso.get_headers(["GRAVI.2024-09-27T07:22:10.935","PIONI.2024-01-12T08:55:01.576"])
print(headers["HIERARCH ESO INS ID"])

At present time, the output is :

HIERARCH ESO INS ID
-------------------
             GRAVIT
             PIONIE

If this is a bug, I guess that a fix should also manage multiple quotes occurences with and without escaping and maybe other tricky cases ...

[keflavich]

The table reader has incorrectly set the string length, apparently:

>>> headers["HIERARCH ESO INS ID"]
<Column name='HIERARCH ESO INS ID' dtype='str6' length=2>
GRAVIT
PIONIE

[gmella]

The table reader has incorrectly set the string length, apparently:

No, this is the number of rows of the astropy.table.Table for the get_headers call where I queried two dataproduct IDs.

From the next line of code ( value = value.split('/', 1)[0].strip()) , the value is retrieved from the right part after the first '=' splitting with '/'. But the assumption that the left part contains the keyword value fails when the value itself contains a /

astroquery/astroquery/eso/core.py

Line 583 in 1e8c4dd

value = value.split('/', 1)[0].strip()