[Rivet] hepmc file name in analysis class?

[Deepak Kar]

Hi,

You can set the output file name with -o option, but I am sure you
considered that!

Cheers,
Deepak

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 6:59 PM, Kolja Kauder <kkauder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> Understood, and I appreciate the concerns. Just to explain myself better,
> the reason for wanting to do this because I use rivet as a hepmc processor,
> i.e. I translate hepmc files into root trees. And in the current setup
> there's no elegant way to customize an output filename from the input,
> meaning I have to run individually and then cp or mv the result to the name
> I actually want. That workflow does the trick, so my problems are "solved",
> I just wanted to check for other options.
>
> Fyi, when running over multiple files, my ideal interface would have been
> something like handler().GetCurrentFile().GetName()
>
> Thanks,
> Kolja
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 7:05 AM, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at cern.ch>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kojla,
>>
>> You mean you want your analysis to behave differently depending on the
>> input filename? For good reasons that is not an option -- not least that a
>> Rivet job can be running over many different files and it should not change
>> its behaviour midway.
>>
>> If you want to change your analysis behaviour without recompiling, then
>> your best option is probably just to use environment variables and
>> getopt(). Custom behaviours like that are not something that we accept for
>> "official" analyses, because it would become unmanageable with each using a
>> different ad hoc configuration convention -- so there isn't an official
>> Rivet mechanism for passing options to the analysis classes.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> *Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow*
>> Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Glasgow
>> On Jan 22 2018, at 11:19 pm, Kolja Kauder <kkauder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to tailor my analysis (and the output filename) to the
>> hepmc input file, but I cannot figure out how to access that
>> information.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kolja
>>
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