[kepler-dev] about communication between director and actor

[Matt Jones]

Dear Ming,

Kepler provides a configuration system that you should be able to easily
leverage in your actors without having to have the directors pass this sort
of information.  Each module that is built can have one or more
configuration files, and these can be loaded at runtime without knowing path
information, etc., ahead of time.  Use of the configuration system from
within your actors is described here:

https://kepler-project.org/developers/teams/framework/configuration-system-documentation/

Hope this helps,
Matt

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Ming Wu <wuming at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Jianwu
>
> In our work, each actor has its own configuration properties. and we
> expect these actors configuration properties will be contained in a
> global file. so we are thinking if the director can pass configuration
> information into each actor, then we can let the director to extract
> individual configuration properties for each actor from the global
> file and pass it into the actor, instead of asking each actor to
> specify its configuration information.
>
> thanks,
>
> Ming
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Jianwu Wang <jianwu at sdsc.edu> wrote:
> >  Hi Ming,
> >
> >    In my understanding, director can not do it since director only
> controls
> > the invocation of actors, not sends messages.
> >
> >    What exact information do you want to pass? Would you please give an
> > example? Maybe your requirements can be met in other ways?
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Sincerely yours
> >
> > Jianwu Wang
> > jianwu at sdsc.edu
> > http://users.sdsc.edu/~jianwu/
> >
> > Assistant Project Scientist
> > Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies (SWAT) Laboratory
> > San Diego Supercomputer Center
> > University of California, San Diego
> > San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
> >
> >
> > On 8/30/2010 11:29 AM, Ming Wu wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> I am wondering, when an actor is constructed or preinitialized, or
> >> initialized, is there anyway for its director to pass into some
> >> information to this actor?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Ming
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Kepler-dev mailing list
> >> Kepler-dev at kepler-project.org
> >> http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/mailman/listinfo/kepler-dev
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Kepler-dev mailing list
> Kepler-dev at kepler-project.org
> http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/mailman/listinfo/kepler-dev
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/pipermail/kepler-dev/attachments/20100831/f04ccc64/attachment.html>