[Rivet] hepmc file name in analysis class?

[Andy Buckley]

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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> --
> ________________________
> Kolja Kauder, Ph.D.
> Post-Doctoral Research Fellow,
> Physics Dept., Wayne State University
> ________________________
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