Re: [HTCondor-users] how do I test/debug condor_chirp ?

[John M Knoeller <johnkn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stefano.   No, you cannot use .  in an attribute name because . the classad scope operator for attributes.   TARGET.FOO  is a reference to the FOO attribute in the TARGET ad,  etc.

As for your specific issue.   I'm pretty sure that your shell is stripping the "" around your second argument.  so this becomes 

   set_job_attr_delayed Chirp_myThing a,b 

At the other side of the chirp command, which then tries to parse a,b as an _expression_, and this fails.   This should be resulting in a message in the StarterLog.slot???

     Failed to parse line to a ClassAd _expression_: a,b

There does not appear to be a chirp error code that indicates that it was unable to parse the _expression_, I would expect that you just get a generic error code back. 

-tj

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From: HTCondor-users <htcondor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Stefano Belforte <stefano.belforte@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2023 1:59 PM
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Subject: [HTCondor-users] how do I test/debug condor_chirp ?

 

I am having problems passing a list of strings as attribute value, i.e.
condor_chirp set_job_attr_delayed Chirp_myThing "a,b"
that command returns no error, but eventually I do not
find it in the job classAds, while this is OK
condor_chirp set_job_attr_delayed Chirp_myThing "stringwithoutcomma"

There are of course many ways I can do this wrongly, and I guess
I can find the right one a bit at a time, but what is really
annoying is to do this "one condor job at a time".

Is there a way to test condor_chirp from my shell ?

If not.. can you tell me what's the correct syntax to set
Chirp_myThing attribute to be "some,or,something,else" ?

Any change that dot `.` in the attribute value are illegal ?
IN my actual use case I have those as well.

Thanks

Stefano
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