Partial rewrite of the MOCServer module

CHANGES.rst

@@ -54,6 +54,34 @@ ipac.irsa
 - Add more robust handling of errors returned in Most.query_object() responses.
   [#3140]
 
+mocserver
+^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Switch to https instead of http for the default url (allows pyodide to use the module) [#3139]
+
+- Add ``TimeMOC`` and ``STMOC`` as possible entries in ``MOCServer.query_region`` to
+  allow temporal and space-time searches [#3139]
+
+- ``return_moc`` now allows to ask for a Time-MOC or a Space-Time MOC rather than only
+  Space-MOCs [#3139]
+
+- Fix query by MOC that would write a file ``moc.fits`` where the method was executed
+  in overwriting mode (potentially deleting data if there was a conflicting file) [#3139]
+
+- Returned tables now have a default list of fields instead of the > 130 columns returned
+  previously. The full list of fields can be displayed with the new method
+  ``MOCServer.list_fields`` [#3139]
+
+- Add ``casesensitive`` parameter in the queries (previously, this was hardcoded
+  to ``True``) [#3139]
+
+- Add ``spacesys`` parameter to the queries to allow to filter on the different bodies
+  or frames. The list of available space systems can be printed with the new method
+  ``MOCServer.list_spacesys`` [#3139]
+
+- Add ``query_hips`` method, which is convenient to filter only Hierarchical progressive
+  surveys [#3139]
+
 mpc
 ^^^
 

astroquery/mocserver/__init__.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license - see LICENSE.rst
-"""
-CDS MOCServer Query Tool
-------------------------
+"""CDS MOCServer Query Tool.
+----------------------------
 
 :Author: Matthieu Baumann ([email protected])
 
@@ -13,8 +12,9 @@
 Note: If the access to MOCs with the MOCServer tool was helpful for your research,
 the following acknowledgment would be appreciated::
 
-  This research has made use of the MOCServer, a tool developed at CDS, Strasbourg, France aiming at retrieving
-  MOCs/meta-data from known data-sets. MOC is an IVOA standard described in the following paper :
+  This research has made use of the MOCServer, a tool developed at CDS, Strasbourg,
+  France aiming at retrieving MOCs/meta-data from known data-sets. MOC is an IVOA
+  standard described in :
   http://www.ivoa.net/documents/MOC/20140602/REC-MOC-1.0-20140602.pdf
 """
 
@@ -24,14 +24,12 @@
 
 
 class Conf(_config.ConfigNamespace):
-    """
-    Configuration parameters for ``astroquery.template_module``.
-    """
+    """Configuration parameters for ``astroquery.template_module``."""
 
     server = _config.ConfigItem(
         [
-            "http://alasky.unistra.fr/MocServer/query",
-            "http://alaskybis.unistra.fr/MocServer/query",
+            "https://alasky.unistra.fr/MocServer/query",
+            "https://alaskybis.unistra.fr/MocServer/query",
         ],
         "Name of the template_module server to use.",
     )
@@ -40,6 +38,16 @@ class Conf(_config.ConfigNamespace):
         30, "Time limit for connecting to template_module server."
     )
 
+    default_fields = [
+        "ID",
+        "obs_title",
+        "obs_description",
+        "nb_rows",
+        "obs_regime",
+        "bib_reference",
+        "dataproduct_type",
+    ]
+
 
 conf = Conf()