Changes between Version 146 and Version 147 of ippToPsps

Timestamp:

Aug 3, 2011, 11:15:58 AM (15 years ago)

Author:

rhenders

Comment:

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ippToPsps

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 Due to the potential for changes in both input and output for {{{ippToPsps}}}, rather than hard-coding table descriptions, the code is heavily configurable. As such, the tables descriptions are stored as [http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/VOTable/20040811/REC-VOTable-1.1-20040811.html VOTable] files (for [http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/browser/trunk/ippToPsps/config/detection/tables.vot example]), which are a standard of the [http://www.ivoa.net/ IVOA]. Because VOTables are an XML format, they both human and machine readable, expandable and self-describing. These VOTables are generated directly from the PSPS schema using a [http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/browser/trunk/ippToPsps/perl/pspsSchema2xml.pl script], so that any changes to the schema can be easily passed-along to {{{ippToPsps}}}.
 
-Additionally, a more general configuration file is used to detail the names of databases, location of output files, datastore settings etc. The path to one of these configuration files is the sole argument to running the code (see below). An example can be seen [http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/browser/trunk/ippToPsps/jython/configs/lap.xml here]
+Additionally, a more general configuration file is used to detail the names of databases, location of output files, datastore settings etc. The path to one of these configuration files is the sole argument to running the code (see below). An example can be seen [http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/browser/trunk/ippToPsps/jython/configs/lap.xml here].
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+Editing a config is easy, as it is XML format, and most fields are self-explanatory. Others that are less obvious will be explained below in the ''Using the software'' section.
 
 == dvoToMySQL ==
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 The {{{./run.sh}}} prefix above is necessary to invoke the correct Java virtual machine, while including the relevant jar files in the CLASSPATH (all included in the {{{trunk/ippToPsps/Jars}}} subdir) 
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+== Test mode ==
+
+One field in the config, under the ''options'' section, is ''testMode''. This is a boolean, i.e. can be either 1 or 0. When switched on, each batch type will be run in it's own test mode. For detections, this means:
+
+ * it will only process the first exposure that is queued
+ * it will only process OTA 33 from this exposure
+ * it will ignore certain missing values, which would otherwise fail the batch
 
 == Deletion policy ==