Changes Notes
Changes since 0.1
General
- Tested on Windows.
- Installation/setup: the GRAPHVIZ_BIN environment variable is no longer
required by dbviewer and has been removed.
DBviewer
- Added 'view Files' feature. Now files including log file,
input files, output files and notebook can be viewed from the menu when
right click over the job node.
- Added 'select related jobs'. Now any job node, you can select all jobs
that directly or in-directly related to the job, including all children and
parents.
- Added user's preferences. Now it is possible to save the changes in
appearance menu.
- Added 'scale' menu. It is possible to enlarge or shrink the graph by
selecting different scale.
- Added 'node' menu. It is allowed to choose to show 'title' or 'taskname'
in the job node.
- Add an icon on job node if the 'JobQuality' is good.
DB handler
- Added 'AddInputFile', 'AddOutputFile', 'ListInputFiles','ListOutputFiles',
'DbReadable', 'DbWriteable', 'DbReacquire' commands.
- Make major command name changes. (see also name changes in API)
- Add a SQLite backend for each project to store JobQuality data.
Client API
- Major changes in python API. Now if handler response is 'OK', API returns
the actural result. If handler response is 'ERROR', API raises 'DBError'
exception.
- In python API,Change DbRegister, now it takes two arguments, user_agent and broadcast flag.
- In python API, changes in handler connection:
Remove 'DbStartHander' & 'DbRegister'. HandlerConnection initialisation takes
two arguments: user agent and broadcast flag.
There are major changes in the name of the methods/procedures. The following
table show the changes names in both python & tcl API.
| Old Name | New Name |
| handlerconnection | HandlerConnection (only in python) |
| OpenDatabase | OpenProject |
tr>CreateDatabase | CreateProject |
| CloseDatabase | CloseProject |
| NewRecord | NewJob |
| DeleteRecord | DeleteJob |
| DbReadable | ProjectReadable |
| DbWriteable | ProjectWriteable |
| DbReacquire | ReacquireProject |
| GetAllLinks | GetAllFileLinks |
| GetLinks | GetFileLinks |
| ListDefDirs | ListDataDirs |
| AddDefDirRef | AddDataDirRef |
| DeleDefDirRef | DeleteDataDirRef |
| GetDefDir | GetDataDir |
Last Update: $Date: 2007/09/10 13:10:32 $