2 \page salome_command salome command
4 To start %SALOME a new approach has been introduced in versions 7.x, based on \ref SALOME_Application. The underlying mechanism aims at:
5 -# Unifying start commands\n
6 Former unix Shell scripts like runAppli, runSession and runConsole have been replaced by a unique Python command named \b salome.
7 -# Handling execution context\n
8 After %SALOME exit, environment is restored to its initial state. No Shell file sourcing is required. Context management is achieved using Python standard API for context files parsing.
9 -# Promoting creation of custom start commands (launchers)\n
10 %A launcher is a Python script that creates an execution context then starts %SALOME in this context. It uses methods provided by an Application Programming Interface (API). The \b salome command is a launcher. Several launchers may exist simultaneously. Each one uses the same API and focuses on the execution context creation.
13 \section salome_launcher The salome command
14 Usage of \c salome command is:
16 salome [command] [options] [--config=<file,folder,...>]
21 Start a new %SALOME instance.
23 Initialize %SALOME context. Current environment is extended.
25 Initialize %SALOME context, attached to the last created %SALOME instance if any, and executes scripts passed as command arguments. User works in a Shell terminal. %SALOME environment is set but application is not started.
27 Connect a Python console to the active %SALOME instance.
28 - \c kill <port(s)> \n
29 %Terminate %SALOME instances running on given ports for current user. Port numbers must be separated by blank characters.
31 %Terminate *all* %SALOME running instances for current user. Do not start a new one.
35 Display some information about %SALOME.
36 - \c doc <module(s)> \n
37 Show online module documentation (if available). Module names must be separated by blank characters.
41 If no command is given, default is start.
43 Use salome <command> --help to show help on command? Available for the following commands: start, shell, connect, test, info.
47 To start an application, use \code salome start \endcode
48 To see available options for this command, use \code salome start --help \endcode
50 To initialize %SALOME context, use \code salome shell \endcode
51 To see available options for this command, use \code salome shell --help \endcode
53 To connect a Python console, use \code salome connect \endcode
54 There is no options to this command. It asks user which %SALOME instance to connect to.
56 \section context_files Context files management
57 The <tt>--config</tt> option is used to identify the list of configuration files or directories to be used for %SALOME context creation. When this option is given, only files provided by user are considered. If user does not specify any context file %SALOME will rely on context files detected in the env.d application folder. Context files have the .cfg extension.
59 To initialize application context, the \c salome command parses all context files in the env.d folder. User can add her own context files (see \ref context_file_syntax).
62 \section several_scripts_multiple_args Run several scripts with multiple arguments
63 On the one hand, runAppli options allow to give a list of Python scripts to be run after application startup; but it is not possible to specify parameters for these scripts. On the other hand runSession can run one script but it admits several parameters.
65 The \c salome command options allow to give a list of Python scripts to be run after application startup. It is possible to specify parameters for each of these scripts. To provide parameters to a script from the command line, write <tt>script.py args:arg1,arg2,...,argn</tt>
67 The script parameters must be separated by commas and no spaces are allowed (except
68 between the script name and the beginning of its parameters).
69 For example, the following call will run sequentially three scripts, which will wait 5 seconds, say hello, and calculate 1+2+3:
71 salome shell –p 2811 wait.py args:5 hello.py add.py args:1,2,3
74 The command \c salome \c shell allows a double dash syntax (- -) to indicate an extra command to be run "as is". It allows calling a extern program or system command having options and arguments that contain simple dash (-) characters.
75 The syntax is \code salome shell -- <program> [options] [arguments] \endcode
78 salome shell -- ls -l *.py
79 salome shell -- python -tt hello.py
83 \section handling_concurrency Handling concurrent starts
84 %A %SALOME instance uses a dedicated TCP port number on which the CORBA name server of each %SALOME application will connect. This refers to a technical solution that allows multiple software components belonging to the same application to communicate with each other. This approach is a standard used when multiple applications are running at the same time (components should not interfere with each other), and when application components can be distributed across multiple machines.
86 Each %SALOME application owns a specific port number. This port is determined automatically when application starts. When multiple applications are started at the same time, assigning a number to each port could be conflicting, and the same port could be assigned to several applications. To prevent from such a situation, a Python object named \c Portmanager has been implemented. This object has been introduced in %SALOME 7 as an optional tool, then evaluated on Linux and Windows. In %SALOME 8, this object becomes the standard.
88 Several instances can be safely started concurrently. For example in an automated process in shell script, calling several times the following commands (WORK_DIR variable changes at each call):
90 salome start -t --ns-port-log=${WORK_DIR}/session.log
91 salome shell -p `cat ${WORK_DIR}/session.log` ${SALOME_APPLI_FOLDER}/bin/salome/waitContainers.py # may be optional
92 salome shell -p `cat ${WORK_DIR}/session.log` ${BASE_DIR}/hello.py
93 salome kill `cat ${WORK_DIR}/session.log`
96 From a Python script, use a SalomeInstance object:
98 from salome_instance import SalomeInstance
99 instance = SalomeInstance.start()
100 print("Instance created and now running on port", instance.get_port())
106 \section remote_calls Remote calls
107 With \c salome \c shell user can connect to a %SALOME instance running on a remote computer. In this case the options <tt>-p PORT</tt>, <tt>-m MACHINE</tt>, <tt>-d DIRECTORY</tt> and <tt>-u USER</tt> must be provided. Moreover the syntax <tt>out:res1,res2,...</tt> can be used to get results back from remote machine.
110 salome shell -m remotemachine -p 2810 -u myself -d /full/path/to/salome concatenate.py args:file1.txt,file2.txt out:result.txt
112 In this example user <tt>myself</tt> connects to <tt>remotemachine</tt> to run the script <tt>concatenate.py</tt> in a %SALOME instance running on port <tt>2810</tt>. The script takes two input parameters and produces one result file.
113 The script and the input files are on the local computer. They are copied to the remote machine using a secure connection. Results produced on remote computer are transferred on the local machine using the same protocol. Script, input files and results are finally removed from remote machine.
116 \section write_launcher How to write a launcher
117 %A launcher is a Python module that contains a single <tt>main(args)</tt> function to sequentially execute the following operations:
118 - Detect application path
120 currentPath = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
121 launcherFile = os.path.basename(__file__)
122 from salome_starter import initialize
123 initialize(currentPath, launcherFile)
125 - Identify context files
127 from salomeContextUtils import getConfigFileNames
128 configFileNames, args, unexisting = getConfigFileNames(args, checkExistence=True)
132 context = SalomeContext(configFileNames)
134 The execution context can be set or overloaded using \ref salome_api, for example:
136 # context.addToPath('mypath')
137 # context.addToLdLibraryPath('myldlibrarypath')
138 # context.addToPythonPath('mypythonpath')
139 # context.setVariable('myvarname', 'value')
143 out, err, returncode = context.runSalome(args)
146 This module is generally used as a script, run from a shell command line. It thus contains the directive:
148 if __name__ == "__main__":
154 Finally the module can be called from another script, for example a test script. Considering a Python variable \c path_to_launcher that identifies the absolute path to a launcher, one can write:
156 appli_dir = os.path.dirname(path_to_launcher)
157 sys.path[:0] = [os.path.join(appli_dir, "bin", "salome", "appliskel")]
158 self.SALOME = imp.load_source("SALOME", os.path.join(appli_dir,"salome"))
160 self.SALOME.main(["shell", "hello.py"])
161 except SystemExit, e:
167 \section salome_api The API
168 An API named \c SalomeContext, written in Python, allows for the construction of %SALOME execution context and for application start. Each launcher creates a \c SalomeContext object, and optionally gives it a list of configuration files to describe the context:
170 SalomeContext.__init__(configFileNames=None)
173 %A launcher can also directly call the API functions to define, suppress or extend (add information) an environment variable:
175 SalomeContext.setVariable(name, value, overwrite=False)
176 SalomeContext.unsetVariable(name)
177 SalomeContext.addToVariable(name, value, separator=os.pathsep)
180 The \c addToVariable function consists in prefixing the variable name with the given value inserting a separator between the two items.
182 Unix system variables PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH (DYLD_LIBRARY PATH for BSD) and PYTHONPATH can only be extended:
184 SalomeContext.addToPath(value)
185 SalomeContext.addToLdLibraryPath(value)
186 SalomeContext.addToDyldLibraryPath(value)
187 SalomeContext.addToPythonPath(value)
190 Once the context is created, the application is started:
192 SalomeContext.runSalome(args)
195 The \c args list corresponds to commands and options given to \c salome launcher.
198 \section context_file_syntax Syntax of a context file
199 It is possible to write specific context files provided that the syntax defined
200 hereinafter is respected. Their analysis by the new %SALOME start mechanism uses tools from the Python standard API.
202 %A context file starts with a section title, and continues with the definition of different
203 context variables. The section title is a string enclosed by brackets, for example <tt>[My context]</tt>.
205 \subsection context_file_syntax_definition Definition
206 %A variable can be defined with a declaration <tt>variable=value</tt>:
208 SALOME_PREREQUISITES=salome/prerequisites/install
211 \subsection context_file_syntax_substitution Substitution
212 %A variable can be defined relative to another one; this substitution corresponds to the syntax <tt>%(variable)s</tt>:
214 QTDIR=${HOME}/%(SALOME_PREREQUISITES)s/Qt-484
216 In this example QTDIR will equal ${HOME}/salome/prerequisites/install/Qt-484
218 \subsection context_file_syntax_system System variables
219 Specific system variables such as PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and PYTHONPATH are extended with <tt>ADD_TO_variable: valeur</tt>.
221 ADD_TO_PATH: %(QTDIR)s/bin
222 ADD_TO_LD_LIBRARY_PATH: %(QTDIR)s/lib
223 ADD_TO_PYTHONPATH: %(PYQT_ROOT_DIR)s/lib/python2.7/site-packages
226 This prepends environment variables with user paths.
228 \subsection context_file_syntax_unset Unset
229 %A variable can be unset with <tt>UNSET: variable</tt>:
231 UNSET: LD_LIBRARY_PATH PTHREAD_ROOT_DIR