Generating work

Workunits and results can be created using either a utility program or a C++ function.

The program

create_work
    -appname name
    -wu_name name
    -wu_template file
    -result_template file
    -nresults n
    infile_1 ... infile_m

-appname specifies the name of the application

-wu_name gives the name of the workunit.

-wu_template gives the filename of a template for the workunit XML document. This template is macro-substituted as follows:

• <INFILE_n/> is replaced with the name of the nth input file.
• <MD5_n/> is replaced with the MD5 checksum of the nth input file.
• <WU_NAME/> is replaced with the workunit name.

-result_template gives the filename of a template for the result XML document. This template is macro-substituted as follows:

• <OUTFILE_n> is replaced with a string of the form "wuname_resultnum_n" where wuname is the workunit name and resultnum is the ordinal number of the result (0, 1, ...).
• <WU_NAME> is replaced with the workunit name.
• <RESULT_NAME> is replaced with a string of the form "wuname_resultnum".

-nresults gives the number of results to be created.

infile_1 ... infile_m are the names of the input files.

The C++ library (backend_lib.C,h) provides the function:

int create_work(
    int appid,
    char* wu_name,
    char* wu_template,
    char* result_template,
    int nresults,
    char* infile_dir,
    char** infiles,
    int ninfiles
);

This creates a workunit and one or more results. The arguments are the same as for the utility program, except that the application is identified by its database ID.

"infile_dir" is the path of the directory containing the input files.

"infiles" is an array of names of the input files, of length "ninfiles".