[kepler-dev] how to enable 'listen to actor' without GUI?

[Christopher Brooks]

Hi Jianwu,
You could just search for the code that invokes listen to actor,
but the problem is that invoking the method requires determining
the actor to which to listen.

I agree that my solution is more complex, but adding more and
more command line options is not very scalable after a certain
point.

_Christopher


Jianwu Wang wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
> 
>    Thanks a lot for you help. The solution is more complex than I 
> expected. I'll try to work it around.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Sincerely yours
> 
> Jianwu Wang
> jianwu at sdsc.edu
> http://users.sdsc.edu/~jianwu/
> 
> Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies (SWAT) Laboratory
> San Diego Supercomputer Center University of California, San Diego
> San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
> 
> 
> Christopher Brooks wrote:
>> Hi Jianwu,
>> How I track these down is to search the ptII repository for the
>> menu string that corresponds with the functionality in which you
>> are interested.
>>
>> To my knowledge, we don't currently support enabling 'listen to
>> actor' from the command line.
>>
>> Instead of adding yet another command line argument, it might be worth
>> worth using Jacl to invoke Java commands.
>>
>> $PTII/bin/ptjacl foo.tcl workflow.xml
>> would invoke foo.tcl which could then read in workflow.xml, set up
>> any listeners and then run the model.
>>
>> For example, if foo.tcl contains:
>>
>>   java::new ptolemy.moml.MoMLSimpleApplication $argv
>>
>> Then
>>  $PTII/bin/ptjacl foo.tcl $PTII/ptolemy/actor/lib/test/auto/Ramp1.xml
>> will invoke the model.
>>
>> It is not that difficult to take control of execution, if foo.tcl 
>> contained
>>
>>
>> set parser [java::new ptolemy.moml.MoMLParser]
>> set toplevel [java::cast ptolemy.actor.TypedCompositeActor [$parser 
>> parseFile $argv]]
>> set manager [java::new ptolemy.actor.Manager \
>>             [$toplevel workspace] "manager"]
>> $toplevel setManager $manager
>> $manager execute
>>
>> then the model is parsed, a manager created and executed.
>>
>> _Christopher
>>
>> Jianwu Wang wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>>    With Kepler GUI, we can use right-click item 'listen to actor' to 
>>> get the execution debug info of this actor. Now I have to run a 
>>> workflow in batch mode, e.g. kepler.sh -runwf -nogui -nocache 
>>> workflow.xml. Do we support the same function like 'listen to actor' 
>>> when executing workflow in batch mode? Do I need change some 
>>> configuration item of Kepler/Ptolemy configuration files to enable 
>>> that? Thanks a lot!
>>>
>>

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