Speeding up naming Convertions

[listy]

Hi, Celton.

I am mostly using standard client api of tactic:
server.get_virtual_snapshot_path()
server.get_preallocated_path()

I just tested speed again, and this is my tests on local machine using remote api:

Code:

import thlib.tactic_classes as tc
import thlib.global_functions as gf

t = gf.time_it()
server = tc.server_start(project='dolly3d')
preallocated_path = server.get_virtual_snapshot_path('complex/shot?project=dolly3d&code=SHOT00646', 'animation')
print(preallocated_path)

gf.time_it(t)

virtual_snapshot = server.get_preallocated_path('SNAPSHOT00009768', mkdir=False)
print(virtual_snapshot)

gf.time_it(t)

Code:

/home/apache/assets/dolly3d/episodes/EpTEST/animation/versions/EpTEST_Sh01_animation_v001
Code flow running time: 0.378999948502
/home/apache/assets/dolly3d/episodes/EpTEST/EpTEST_Sh01
Code flow running time: 0.662999868393

The same code on the server-side:

Code:

import time
import json
start_time = time.time()

server.set_project('dolly3d')

results_dict = {}
results_list = []


preallocated_path = server.get_virtual_snapshot_path('complex/shot?project=dolly3d&code=SHOT00646', 'animation')
results_dict['preallocated_path'] = time.time() - start_time
results_list.append(preallocated_path)

virtual_snapshot = server.get_preallocated_path('SNAPSHOT00009768', mkdir=False)
results_dict['virtual_snapshot'] = time.time() - start_time
results_list.append(virtual_snapshot)

results_dict['result'] = results_list

return json.dumps(results_dict)

Code:

{u'preallocated_path': 0.33849501609802246,
u'result': [u'/home/apache/assets/dolly3d/episodes/EpTEST/animation/versions/EpTEST_Sh01_animation_v001',
             u'/home/apache/assets/dolly3d/episodes/EpTEST/EpTEST_Sh01'],
u'virtual_snapshot': 0.43698716163635254}

Obviously there is small gain in speed when doing on server-side, but it is far from 0.03 seconds per iteration.

I am going to add some print statements and timing into tactic source codes to see where is bottleneck, and may be point you in this place.

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- @PYTHON script - can reference a Python script that does custom caching using the Container.
- Custom naming classes - can reference a class that performs custom caching using the Container

In tactic 4.5 (on which i am now) @PYTHON is really unusable, as it does not provide needed "context", like file, snapshot etc, just main SObject. I know it was expanded in 4.7, but i need 4.5 api by now.

Custom naming classes should do the trick, but i really don't know how i can do smart caching in my particular situation, will try it sometimes.

Can you provide the source code you wrote to do the test? I could check them on my server.

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Did some test with namingUtil:

Code:

from pyasm.biz.naming import NamingUtil
from pyasm.search import Search

sobject = Search.get_by_search_key('complex/shot?project=dolly3d&code=SHOT00646')
snapshot = Search.get_by_search_key('sthpw/snapshot?code=SNAPSHOT00009768')

server.set_project('dolly3d')
naming = NamingUtil()

template = "{project.code}/episodes/{sobject.name}/{snapshot.process}{@CASE( @GET(file.type) == 'playblast', '/'+'__preview', @GET(file.type) == 'web',  '/'+'__preview/web', @GET(file.type) == 'icon', '/'+'__preview/icon')}"
name = naming.naming_to_dir(template, sobject, snapshot)

Time: 0.07758712768554688
Resulting name: 'dolly3d/episodes/Sh01/publish'

Returned path lacks snapshot info and parent