You will need to modify the suite definition file and add a new script.
You must also create a file t2.ecf in $HOME/course/test. Simply copy t1.ecf.
First modify the suite definition
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It is good practice to suspend your suite before you reload any part of it.
In ecflowview right click on the suite and select “Suspend”.
Once you made your change(specified below) you can right click on the suite and “Resume” it.
# Definition of the suite test suite test edit ECF_HOME "$HOME/course" # replace '$HOME' with the path to your home directory task t1 task t2 endsuite
As before replace $HOME with the real path to your home directory.
ecflow_client --load=test.def
This will fail because the suite is already loaded
Because the suite is already defined, you need to delete and reload it first:
ecflow_client --delete=_all_ ecflow_client --load=test.def
Then restart the suite:
ecflow_client --begin=test
Rather than deleting, loading and beginning the suite every time you can replace
all or part of the suite for example to replace whole suite.
ecflow_client --replace=/test test.def
or to replace part of the suite:
ecflow_client --replace=/test/t2 test.def
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To delete the suite definition, reload and begin using the Client Server API: First update test.py to add task t2
#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
import os
import ecflow
print "Creating suite definition"
defs = ecflow.Defs()
suite = defs.add_suite("test")
suite.add_variable("ECF_HOME", os.path.join(os.getenv("HOME"), "course"))
suite.add_task("t1")
suite.add_task("t2")
print defs
print "Checking job creation: .ecf -> .job0"
print defs.check_job_creation()
print "Saving definition to file 'test.def'"
defs.save_as_defs("test.def")
To delete all suites in the server and reload modified test.def, we could update client.py
#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
import ecflow
print "Client -> Server: delete, then load a new definition"
try:
ci = ecflow.Client()
ci.delete_all() # clear out the server
ci.load("test.def") # load the definition into the server
ci.begin_suite("test") # start the suite
except RuntimeError as e:
print "Failed:", e
Rather than deleting, loading and beginning the suite every time you can replace
all or part of the suite. (i.e. to replace the whole suite see below)
Additionally we do not want the suite to start straight away. This can be done
by suspending the suite in ecflow_ui before reloading.
However we will need to remember to do this, each time. To get round this we will
suspend the suite use the Client Server API:
Modify client.py with:
#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
import ecflow
print "Client -> Server: replacing suite '/test' in the server, with a new definition"
try:
ci = ecflow.Client()
ci.suspend("/test") # so that we can resume manually in ecflow_ui
ci.replace("/test", "test.def")
except RuntimeError as e:
print "Failed:", e
For brevity the examples that follow, will not show the loading of the suite.
What to do
- Suspend the suite using ecflow_ui or via python using ecflow.Client.suspend
- Create the new task
- Create t2.ecf by copying from t1.ecf
- Update python scripts test.py and client.py or test.def
- Replace the suite
- Resume the the suite using ecflow_ui
- In ecflow_ui watch the two task running. They should run at the same time