Re: [HTCondor-users] Using VARS with SPLICE in DAGMan

[Nathan Panike <nwp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

This is implemented in the current 7.9 development series.

See https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=1780

Nathan Panike

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:01:07PM -0500, Christopher Martin wrote:
> I'm looking at SPLICE in DAGMan and I'm curious if you can use CATEGORY and
> VARS to send values into the jobs of the inner dags. The documentation
> mentions that MAXJOBS can be controlled this way so I'm hoping there is the
> same functionality for VARS.
> 
> I'll potentially going to have a lot of jobs with slight variations and I'm
> trying to work around having to generate submit files for each.
> 
> I've put together an example of what I'm wondering is possible:
> 
> 
> #BEGIN DAG FILE X.dag
> 
> JOB A condor_job_A.submit
> CATEGORY A catA
> 
> JOB B condor_job_B.submit
> CATEGORY B catB
> 
> PARENT A CHILD B
> 
> #END DAG FILE X.dag
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> #BEGIN DAG FILE S.dag
> 
> JOB A outer_job_A.submit
> JOB B outer_job_B.submit
> 
> SPLICE X1 X.dag
> VARS X1+catA myvar="myvalue1"
> 
> SPLICE X2 X.dag
> VARS X2+catA myvar="myvalue2"
> 
> SPLICE X3 X.dag
> VARS X3+catA myvar="myvalue3"
> 
> PARENT A CHILD X1 X2 X3
> PARENT X1 X2 X3 CHILD B
> 
> # END  DAG FILE S.dag
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris.