Given the CDM's support for relative pathnames, I would expect the case of relative inputs, relative outputs would succeed irrespective of config. However, from the tests, it seems that the config option is overriding CDM directives.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Justin M Wozniak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wozniak@mcs.anl.gov">wozniak@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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CDM DIRECT does not currently support absolute path names. I think we<br>
could provide something simple like "" for the field, as you suggest.<br>
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On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Michael Wilde wrote:<br>
<br>
> I would expect that for absolute path mappings, the user would specify<br>
> either :: or "/" as the path in the CDM DIRECT pattern. In other words,<br>
> the user is saying "I have mapped the object to an absolute path name,<br>
> and I want the app to get exactly this name". Hence I think that the<br>
> best "location" field for a DIRECT rule is null ("").<br>
><br>
> Justin, can you clarify what the code expects for this case?<br>
><br>
> - Mike<br>
><br>
> ----- Original Message -----<br>
>> From: "Jonathan Monette" <<a href="mailto:jonmon@mcs.anl.gov">jonmon@mcs.anl.gov</a>><br>
>> To: "Michael Wilde" <<a href="mailto:wilde@mcs.anl.gov">wilde@mcs.anl.gov</a>><br>
>> Cc: "Ketan Maheshwari" <<a href="mailto:ketancmaheshwari@gmail.com">ketancmaheshwari@gmail.com</a>>, "Swift Devel" <<a href="mailto:swift-devel@ci.uchicago.edu">swift-devel@ci.uchicago.edu</a>><br>
>> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 9:13:01 AM<br>
>> Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] CDM Tests<br>
>> I couldn't tell from the excel(using my phone) but what was absolute?<br>
>> If I am not mistaken what CDM does is takes the path that is specified<br>
>> in the CDM file(which should be absolute) and appends the file path<br>
>> that is used in the swift script to it(which should be relative). So<br>
>> if they are both absolute I would expect it to fail.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Nov 14, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Michael Wilde <<a href="mailto:wilde@mcs.anl.gov">wilde@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Thanks, Ketan - very nice tests and summary document.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I should point out for those that didn't open the doc: the 4 tests<br>
>>> with absolute pathnames are failing.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Ketan, can you work with Justin to see if this is a bug, or if the<br>
>>> CDM directive needs to be coded differently for absolute paths? Then<br>
>>> please test a fix, and as we discussed adapt the tests with<br>
>>> annotations to enhance the User Guide section on CDM.<br>
>>><br>
>>> - Mike<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> ----- Original Message -----<br>
>>>> From: "Ketan Maheshwari" <<a href="mailto:ketancmaheshwari@gmail.com">ketancmaheshwari@gmail.com</a>><br>
>>>> To: "Swift Devel" <<a href="mailto:swift-devel@ci.uchicago.edu">swift-devel@ci.uchicago.edu</a>><br>
>>>> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 8:13:48 AM<br>
>>>> Subject: [Swift-devel] CDM Tests<br>
>>>> Hello,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I had a discussion with Mike about testing the CDM behavior for the<br>
>>>> following cases:<br>
>>>> 1. full versus relative paths for input<br>
>>>> 2. full versus relative paths for output<br>
>>>> 3. relative versus absolute option in config property:<br>
>>>> wrapper.invocation.mode<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> In this regard, I made 8 tests for all the above combinations. I<br>
>>>> used<br>
>>>> simple local provider in this first set of tests.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> From the tests it seems that when specifying the relative option on<br>
>>>> the config for wrapper.invocation.mode property the script works<br>
>>>> regardless of the paths of input/output.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> A detailed result with stdout, and paths to logs can be found here:<br>
>>>> <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmvYSwENKFY9dG44V2VjRXJlUmZLNG9saERFeWZDcUE" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmvYSwENKFY9dG44V2VjRXJlUmZLNG9saERFeWZDcUE</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> The tests are in my CI dir: /home/ketan/cdm_tests<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Regards, --<br>
>>>> Ketan<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
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>>><br>
>>> --<br>
>>> Michael Wilde<br>
>>> Computation Institute, University of Chicago<br>
>>> Mathematics and Computer Science Division<br>
>>> Argonne National Laboratory<br>
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