[Rivet] hepmc file name in analysis class?

[Kolja Kauder]

Thanks Andy, I understand the design philosophy behind it and will not try
to circumvent it.

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at cern.ch> wrote:

> That name is not officially available inside Rivet. You might find some
> way to access it, e.g. via the /proc filesystem if you're on Linux, but
> it's not something that we provide on purpose!
>
> Andy
>
> *Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow*
> Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Glasgow
> On Jan 23 2018, at 5:21 pm, Kolja Kauder <kkauder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Deepak,
>
> If I understand correctly, that allows me to set the .yoda name, but
> not the name of any custom output files. If I could intercept that
> name from inside the framework, I can use a regex to create my own
> name based on that; is that possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Kolja
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Deepak Kar <deepak.kar at cern.ch> wrote:
>
> 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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