[Swift-devel] Fwd: [Bug 453] New: Swift accepts bad sites parameters without warning to user

[Justin M Wozniak]

I started on this a while ago but did not get very far:

https://sites.google.com/site/swiftdevel/internals/job-attributes

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Sarah Kenny wrote:

> ok, that's what i figured, but just wanted to make sure i wasn't missing
> anything. i'll work on generating the list.
>
> ~sk
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> Sarah,
>>
>> The only detailed list I know of is for the coaster provider, in the User
>> Guide. And even that is likely not 100% in sync with the code.
>>
>> Anything you can do to create such a list as part of this bug fix would be
>> great.
>>
>> - Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> hey all, i've added a check for some of the incorrect parameters for local
>> execution provider but need to add for the other providers....this is
>> perhaps a naively optimistic question :) but is there a comprehensive list
>> of which parameters are accepted by which provider? just thought i'd check
>> before continuing to dig around for them.
>>
>> thanks
>> ~sk
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: <bugzilla-daemon at mcs.anl.gov>
>> Date: Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:29 AM
>> Subject: [Bug 453] New: Swift accepts bad sites parameters without warning
>> to user
>> To: skenny at uchicago.edu
>>
>>
>> https://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/swift/show_bug.cgi?id=453
>>
>>           Summary: Swift accepts bad sites parameters without warning to
>>                    user
>>           Product: Swift
>>           Version: 0.92
>>          Platform: All
>>        OS/Version: All
>>            Status: ASSIGNED
>>          Severity: major
>>          Priority: P1
>>         Component: SwiftScript language
>>        AssignedTo: skenny at uchicago.edu
>>        ReportedBy: wilde at mcs.anl.gov
>>
>>
>> In the newuser-guide pads-quickstart, we tell the user to use the following
>> sites file:
>>
>>
>> <config>
>> <pool handle="pads-pbs">
>>  <execution jobmanager="local:pbs" provider="local" url="none" />
>>  <filesystem provider="local" url="none" />
>>  <profile key="jobThrottle" namespace="karajan">0</profile>
>>  <profile namespace="globus" key="project">_QUEUE_</profile>
>>  <workdirectory>_WORK_</workdirectory>
>> </pool>
>> </config>
>>
>> which is included from the test/ directory.
>>
>> This file is half coasters, half plain pbs, and as a result happily runs
>> the
>> users jobs on localhost - without any indication of problems.
>>
>> Swift should warn the user (or give a fatal error) if parameters specified
>> in
>> the sites file dont apply to the selected provider(s).
>>
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>> --
>> Michael Wilde
>> Computation Institute, University of Chicago
>> Mathematics and Computer Science Division
>> Argonne National Laboratory
>>
>>
>

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Justin M Wozniak