[Swift-user] Re: mapping question

[Mihael Hategan]

On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 20:59 -0500, Jonathan Monette wrote:
> Yea but how would I get it back through the app?  Would something
> like 
>       app ( Image outfile, Image outfile_area ) myapp( Image infile
> Meta metadata)
>        {
>            myapp @infile @outfile @metadata;
>        }
> work?  Even though it is not a file used in the app would the app call
> still map to it?  Or do I use the regexp mapper after the app call?

Swift will try to stage that file out if it's one of the app returns.
That is irrespective of whether it appears on the command line or not.
So yes, your example above should work.

Mihael
> 
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>
> wrote:
>         Might the regular expression mapper work?
>         
>         Mihael
>         
>         
>         On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 19:44 -0500, Jonathan Monette wrote:
>         > Hello,
>         >    I have a situation that I am not sure how to resolve.  I
>         have an
>         > app that has this interface.
>         >       myapp infile outfile metadata
>         >
>         >
>         > The Swift app declaration i have is
>         >       app ( Image outfile) myapp( Image infile Meta
>         metadata)
>         >       {
>         >           myapp @infile @outfile @metadata;
>         >       }
>         >
>         >
>         > Howerver, myapp creates two files.  It creates a file with
>         @outfile as
>         > the filename and creates another file that is @outfile_area
>         as the
>         > file name.  How in swift do I map to the @outfile_area file
>         since it
>         > is created just based on the name of outfile?  Currently, I
>         don't map
>         > the file so the file is not staged out so it is deleted
>         presumably
>         > when my jobs have finished executed.  This file is not
>         necessary for
>         > my workflow to complete but it is another metadata file that
>         helps in
>         > the approximation of the final image.
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Jonathan Monette
>         > <jon.monette at gmail.com> wrote:
>         >         Hello,
>         >            I have a situation that I am not sure how to
>         resolve.  I
>         >         have an app that is similar to this.
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
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