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<p>The next step is to let <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-ecf-server"><em class="xref std std-term">ecf_server</em></a> know about your <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-suite"><em class="xref std std-term">suite</em></a> or to &#8220;load&#8221; the <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-suite-definition"><em class="xref std std-term">suite definition</em></a> file.</p>

<p>This checks the file <em>test.def</em> and describes the <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-suite"><em class="xref std std-term">suite</em></a> to the <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-ecf-server"><em class="xref std std-term">ecf_server</em></a>.</p>

<p>This can be done in several ways, depending on how the <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-suite"><em class="xref std std-term">suite</em></a> was created.</p>

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<span id="loading-via-cli"></span><h2>Loading a Suite created as a text file<a class="headerlink" href="#loading-a-suite-created-as-a-text-file" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

<p>From within the course directory do the following from the unix shell:</p>

<div class="highlight-python"><pre>&gt; ecf_client --load=test.def</pre>

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<p>The executable <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-ecf-client"><em class="xref std std-term">ecf_client</em></a> provides the shell level interface for communication with

the <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-ecf-server"><em class="xref std std-term">ecf_server</em></a>.</p>

<p>You will have already seen <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-ecf-client"><em class="xref std std-term">ecf_client</em></a> being used in <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Getting+Started#head-h"><em>head.h</em></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Getting+Started#tail-h"><em>tail.h</em></a>

include files.</p>

<p>For a full list of commands type:</p>

<div class="highlight-python"><pre>&gt; ecf_client --help</pre>

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<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>

<p class="last">All the functionality provided by <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-ecf-client"><em class="xref std std-term">ecf_client</em></a> is also available via the <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/ecFlow+Python+Api#python-api"><em>ecFlow Python Api</em></a>. Please see <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/ecFlow+Python+Api#ecflow.Client" title="ecflow.Client"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">ecflow.Client</span></tt></a></p>

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<h2>Loading Suite created in python<a class="headerlink" href="#loading-suite-created-in-python" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

<p>We can ask the python script to write out the defs as &#8216;.def&#8217; definition file:</p>

<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c">#!/usr/bin/env python2.5</span>

<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span>

<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">ecflow</span> 

   

<span class="n">defs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ecflow</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Defs</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;test.def&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="n">suite</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">defs</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_suite</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;test&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="n">suite</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_variable</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;ECF_HOME&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getenv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;HOME&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="s">&quot;/course&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="n">suite</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_task</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;t1&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>



<span class="c"># this will generate a file &#39;test.def&#39;</span>

<span class="n">defs</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">save_as_defs</span><span class="p">()</span>

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<p>You can also print the defs. The output will written to standard out:</p>

<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">defs</span>

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<p>If you called &#8220;defs.save_as_defs()&#8221; the file <em>test.def</em> will be written.</p>

<p>This can be loaded in the server as described earlier <a class="reference internal" href="#loading-via-cli"><em>Loading a Suite created as a text file</em></a></p>

<p>However since the <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/ecFlow+Python+Api#python-api"><em>ecFlow Python Api</em></a> allows the definition to be built in memory,

it is more efficient if this could be directly loaded into the <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-ecf-server"><em class="xref std std-term">ecf_server</em></a>.</p>

<p>This can be done by using <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/ecFlow+Python+Api#ecflow.Client" title="ecflow.Client"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">ecflow.Client</span></tt></a> python class:</p>

<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">ci</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ecflow</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Client</span><span class="p">();</span>

<span class="n">ci</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">set_host_port</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;localhost&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s">&quot;3141&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>



<span class="k">try</span><span class="p">:</span>

   <span class="n">ci</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ping</span><span class="p">()</span>                 <span class="c"># Ping the server, to see if its running</span>

   <span class="n">ci</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">load</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">defs</span><span class="p">)</span>             <span class="c"># load the definition into the server</span>

<span class="k">except</span> <span class="ne">RuntimeError</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">e</span><span class="p">:</span>

   <span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">&quot;failed: &quot;</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">e</span><span class="p">);</span>

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<p>If everything is OK, you should have defined a <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-suite"><em class="xref std std-term">suite</em></a>.</p>

<p>Have a look in the window running the <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-ecf-server"><em class="xref std std-term">ecf_server</em></a>, and look at the log file</p>

<p>What to do:</p>

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<li>Load the definition file</li>

<li>Check the log file</li>

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