"No table found in VOTABLE file" for Simbad MAIN_ID #1232

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1. bsipocz commented on Sep 12, 2018

   

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   What version of astroquery do you use? It works for me as expected:

   In [88]: from astroquery.simbad import Simbad
       ...: result_table = Simbad.query_object("QSO B0003-066")
       ...: print(result_table)
       ...: 
       ...: 
      MAIN_ID          RA      ... COO_WAVELENGTH     COO_BIBCODE    
                    "h:m:s"    ...                                   
   ------------- ------------- ... -------------- -------------------
   QSO B0003-066 00 06 13.8928 ...              R 2009A&A...493..317L
   
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3. Roman-UCLU commented on Sep 12, 2018

   

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   Thanks, Brigitta!

   My version is 0.3.7...

   This is really strange. Any possible reason why it may not be working for me? Here's the full output:

   C:\Program Files\Python\lib\site-packages\astroquery\simbad\core.py:136: UserWarning: Warning: The script line number 2 raised an error (recorded in the `errors` attribute of the result table): java.lang.NullPointerException
     (error.line, error.msg))
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
   TableParseError                           Traceback (most recent call last)
   <ipython-input-1-bfc36190b472> in <module>()
         1 from astroquery.simbad import Simbad
   ----> 2 result_table = Simbad.query_object("QSO B0003-066")
         3 print(result_table)
   
   C:\Program Files\Python\lib\site-packages\astroquery\simbad\core.pyc in query_object(self, object_name, wildcard, verbose, get_query_payload)
       507 
       508         return self._parse_result(response, SimbadVOTableResult,
   --> 509                                   verbose=verbose)
       510 
       511     def query_object_async(self, object_name, wildcard=False, cache=True,
   
   C:\Program Files\Python\lib\site-packages\astroquery\simbad\core.pyc in _parse_result(self, result, resultclass, verbose)
      1017                                   " parsed result is in "
      1018                                   "self.last_parsed_result.\n "
   -> 1019                                   "Exception: " + str(ex))
      1020         resulttable.errors = self.last_parsed_result.errors
      1021         return resulttable
   
   TableParseError: Failed to parse SIMBAD result! The raw response can be found in self.last_response, and the error in self.last_table_parse_error. The attempted parsed result is in self.last_parsed_result.
    Exception: No table found in VOTABLE file.
   
4. bsipocz commented on Sep 12, 2018

   

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   Weird. There were some recent changes since 0.3.7 in the module, but even with that version the snippet works for me.

   Could you check whether the payload and the url is same for you:

   In [5]: Simbad.query_object("QSO B0003-066", get_query_payload=True)
   Out[5]: {'script': '\nvotable {main_id,coordinates}\nvotable open\nquery id  QSO B0003-066  \nvotable close'}
   
   In [6]: Simbad.SIMBAD_URL
   Out[6]: 'http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-script'
   

   also, could you print out Simbad.last_response.content and Simbad.last_table_parse_error after the query produced the failure?
5. aoberto commented on Sep 12, 2018

   

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   I assume that it was the same issue than #1232 : a temporary problem in Simbad. It was resolved few hours ago, may be there is some cache ?

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6. bsipocz commented on Sep 12, 2018

   

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   @Roman-UCLU - please try to clear the cache, Simbad.cache_location tells you the location.
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8. Roman-UCLU commented on Sep 13, 2018

   

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   Sorry for the delay.

   Indeed, this was a caching issue. I deleted everything from the directory returned by Simbad.cache_location and that cut it!

   Thank you so much, everyone!

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9. Negar3362 commented on Sep 3, 2023

   

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   Hello, I'm having the same problem with Ned query even after clearing the cache. Using different astropy and astroquery versions, I am still facing the same issue. Are there any solutions to this problem? Thanks.

   Here is The code and error:

   from astroquery.ipac.ned import Ned
   result_table = Ned.query_object('NGC 224')

   IndexError: No table found in VOTABLE file.
10. keflavich commented on Sep 3, 2023

    

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    @Negar3362 what versions of astropy & astroquery are you using? With astropy, astroquery = ('5.1', '0.4.7.dev8846'), I don't see this issue.
11. Negar3362 commented on Sep 3, 2023

    

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    @keflavich The version of Astroquery I'm using is 0.4.6. I'll try 0.4.7 as well. Thanks.