houdiniBackEnd.HoudiniBackEnd

Class HoudiniBackEnd

A backend for a jobtype that runs an instance of Houdini in a child process.

This will allow for the Houdini session to persist for the duration of the subjob.

Instance Methods

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__init__(self, job)
Function to initialize class members.

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tuple ([childArgs], [pyInitCmds])

getSubprocessArgs(self, port)
Get the arguments to start the child python process.

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findHoudini(self)
If HFS is passed in from the job, and is valid on this host, use it.

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Inherited from qb.backend.pythonChildBackEnd.PythonChildBackEnd: executeWork, generateChildBootstrapper, initPyCmdDispatcher, jobSetup, jobTeardown

Inherited from qb.backend.pythonBackEnd.PythonQubeBackEnd: getLogData, hasJobPhaseCmds, logHandler, parseLogData, printClassInfo, updateResultPackage, validateOutputFileSize

Inherited from object: __delattr__, __format__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __new__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __repr__, __setattr__, __sizeof__, __str__, __subclasshook__

Properties

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Inherited from object: __class__

init(self, job)
(Constructor)

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Function to initialize class members.

Parameters:

job - The qube job object passed to the worker, this represents a job instance.

Overrides: object.__init__

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getSubprocessArgs(self, port)

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Get the arguments to start the child python process.

Parameters:

port (int) - the port on which the PyCmdDispatcher's backchannel instance is listening, usually passed as a parameter to the child_bootstrapper.py script which starts up the pyCmdExecutor inside child process started by the PyCmdDispatcher

Returns: tuple ([childArgs], [pyInitCmds])

Return a tuple of a list of args to start the python interpreter, and a list of python commands to initialize the python working environment.

Raises:

NotImplementedError - Raised when this method is not overridden in a derived class.

Overrides: qb.backend.pythonChildBackEnd.PythonChildBackEnd.getSubprocessArgs

findHoudini(self)

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If HFS is passed in from the job, and is valid on this host, use it. Otherwise, get a clue from job.conf and search.

Class HoudiniBackEnd

__init__(self, job) (Constructor)

getSubprocessArgs(self, port)

findHoudini(self)

init(self, job)
(Constructor)