CommandGraph

CommandGraph is a small set of complimentary tools for exploratory computational research. It provides functionality to simplify the following tasks:

• Routing, validating, and storing command configurations
• Keeping track of command states and executing command dependencies when necessary
• Storing and accessing command outputs
• Generating command-line and web-based user interfaces

Design

CommandGraph attempts to provide a minimal, coherent interface based on standard, cross-language technologies, including

• YAML/JSON for configuration authoring
• JSON-Schema for configuration validation
• HDF5-SWMR for concurrency-safe array serialization, and
• REST/HTTP for exploring command outputs.

It should take a few minutes to learn and a few days to rewrite in your favorite programming language.

Table of contents

• Installation
• Commands
  • Defining commands
  • Accessing command metadata
  • Executing commands
• Records
  • Obtaining a record
  • Reading entries
  • Writing entries
  • Appending to entries
  • Deleting entries
  • Accessing command metadata
  • Running a data server
• Configuration management
  • Configurable object properties
  • Creating objects from specifications
  • Defining scopes
  • Defining schemas
  • Generating a command-line interface
• API reference
• Related packages