spacetelescope · hbushouse · Oct 21, 2021 · Oct 21, 2021 · Oct 21, 2021
diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ cube_build
 - Using assign_wsc.utils.in_ifu_slice function to determine which NIRSpec
   sky values mapped to each detector slice. [#6326]
 
-- Fixed error final exposure times calculated by blend headers.Only the input models
-  used in the IFU cube are past to blend headers. [#6360]
+- Fixed error in final exposure times calculated by blend headers. Only the input models
+  used in the IFU cube are passed to blend headers. [#6360]
 
 - Update of documentation to explain 3d drizzling and remove miri psf weighting [#6371]
 
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ flatfield
 - Updated flatfield step docs to include complete details on how the
   variance and error arrays are updated. [#6245]
 
-- Fixed a bug in flatfield for brightobj mode where the S-flat cutout
+- Fixed a bug in flatfield for NIRSpec BrightObj mode where the S-flat cutout
   was calculated incorrectly by not accounting for the slit offset [#6332]
 
 jump
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ resample
 
 - Fix a crash in ``resample_spec`` due to undefined variance arrays. [#6305]
 
+- Fix handling of ``weight_type`` parameter to allow for user override. [#6406]
+
 source_catalog
 --------------
 

diff --git a/jwst/resample/resample_step.py b/jwst/resample/resample_step.py
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ def process(self, input):
             kwargs = self._set_spec_defaults()
 
         kwargs['allowed_memory'] = self.allowed_memory
+        kwargs['weight_type'] = str(self.weight_type)
+        if self.weight_type == 'exptime':
+            self.log.warning("Use of EXPTIME weighting will result in incorrect")
+            self.log.warning("propagated errors in the resampled product")
 
         # Call the resampling routine
         resamp = resample.ResampleData(input_models, output=output, **kwargs)
@@ -95,6 +99,7 @@ def process(self, input):
         if len(result) == 1:
             result = result[0]
 
+        input_models.close()
         return result
 
     def update_phot_keywords(self, model):
@@ -120,7 +125,7 @@ def get_drizpars(self, ref_filename, input_models):
 
         Once the defaults are set from the reference file, if the user has
         used a resample.cfg file or run ResampleStep using command line args,
-        then these will overwerite the defaults pulled from the reference file.
+        then these will overwrite the defaults pulled from the reference file.
         """
         with datamodels.DrizParsModel(ref_filename) as drpt:
             drizpars_table = drpt.data

diff --git a/jwst/resample/tests/test_resample_step.py b/jwst/resample/tests/test_resample_step.py
@@ -276,8 +276,8 @@ def test_weight_type(nircam_rate, _jail):
 
     result2 = ResampleStep.call(c, weight_type="exptime", blendheaders=False)
 
-    assert_allclose(result2.data[100:105, 100:105], 7.5, rtol=1e-2)
-    assert_allclose(result2.wht[100:105, 100:105], 20, rtol=1e-2)
+    assert_allclose(result2.data[100:105, 100:105], 6.667, rtol=1e-2)
+    assert_allclose(result2.wht[100:105, 100:105], 450.9, rtol=1e-1)
 
 
 def test_sip_coeffs_do_not_propagate(nircam_rate):