ptolemy.moml
Class MoMLCommandLineApplication

java.lang.Object
  ptolemy.moml.MoMLSimpleApplication
      ptolemy.moml.MoMLCommandLineApplication

All Implemented Interfaces:

ExecutionListener, ChangeListener

public class MoMLCommandLineApplication
extends MoMLSimpleApplication

A application that reads command line arguments that set parameters and a .xml file naming a model, sets the parameters and runs the model.

MoMLApplication sets the look and feel, which starts up Swing, so we can't use MoMLApplication for non-graphical simulations.

The parent class, @{link ptolemy.moml.MoMLSimpleApplication} does not handle command line parameters that set parameters For example to use this class, try:

 java -classpath $PTII ptolemy.moml.MoMLCommandLineApplication -myParameter '"Hello, World."' test/MoMLCommandLineApplicationTest.xml
 

or

 $PTII/bin/ptinvoke ptolemy.moml.MoMLCommandLineApplication -myParameter '""Hellow, World.""' test/MoMLCommandLineApplicationTest.xml
 

If a Ptolemy model is instantiated on the command line, either by giving a MoML file or a -class argument, then parameters of that model can be set on the command line. The syntax is:

 $PTII/bin/ptinvoke ptolemy.moml.MoMLCommandLineApplication -parameterName value modelFile.xml
 

where parameterName is the name of a parameter relative to the top level of a model or the director of a model. For instance, if foo.xml defines a toplevel entity named x and x contains an entity named y and a parameter named a, and y contains a parameter named b, then:

 $PTII/bin/ptinvoke ptolemy.moml.MoMLCommandLineApplication  -a 5 -y.b 10 foo.xml
 

would set the values of the two parameters.

Note that strings need to be carefully backslashed, so to set a parameter named c to the string "bar" it might be necessary to do something like:

 $PTII/bin/ptinvoke ptolemy.moml.MoMLCommandLineApplication -a 5 -y.b 10 -c '""bar"" foo.xml
 

The reason the single quotes and double quotes are necessary is because ptinvoke is a shell script which tends to strip off the double quotes.

Since:

Ptolemy II 8.0

Version:

$Id: MoMLCommandLineApplication.java 57044 2010-01-27 22:41:05Z cxh $

Author:

Christopher Brooks

Accepted Rating:

Red (eal)

Proposed Rating:

Red (cxh)

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class ptolemy.moml.MoMLSimpleApplication

_activeCount, _executionFinishedOrError, _manager, _sawThrowable

Constructor Summary

MoMLCommandLineApplication(java.lang.String[] args)
Parse a MoML file that contains a model, update the parameters and run the model.

Method Summary

static void

main(java.lang.String[] args) Create an instance of a single model and run it.

Methods inherited from class ptolemy.moml.MoMLSimpleApplication

changeExecuted, changeFailed, executionError, executionFinished, managerStateChanged, rerun, waitForFinish

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MoMLCommandLineApplication

public MoMLCommandLineApplication(java.lang.String[] args)
                           throws java.lang.Throwable

Parse a MoML file that contains a model, update the parameters and run the model.

Parameters:

args - An array of strings, where the last element names a MoML file that contains a Ptolemy II model. The string should be a relative pathname. Other elements may name model parameters and values for the parameters. Parameter names should begin with a "-" and be followed by the value for the parameter.

Throws:

java.lang.Throwable - If there was a problem parsing or running the model.

Method Detail

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

Create an instance of a single model and run it.

Parameters:

args - The command-line arguments naming the .xml file to run