4 title: "Tutorial: Debug a crunch script"
8 h1. Tutorial: Debug a crunch script
10 The commit-push-submit cycle is too slow for developing and debugging crunch scripts.
12 Get quicker turnaround times by running jobs in your VM (rather than submitting to the job queue) using your working git tree (rather than committing and pushing every little change).
16 * Log in to a VM (see "Setting up SSH access":ssh-access.html)
17 * Check out your git tree (see "Intro: git":intro-git.html)
18 * Set up your API token environment variables (see "Getting an API token":api-tokens.html)
20 If everything is set up correctly, the command @arv -h user current@ will display your account information.
24 Change to your git repository working tree and make sure the @crunch_scripts@ directory exists.
27 yourname@shell:~$ cd yourrepo
28 yourname@shell:~/yourrepo$ mkdir -p crunch_scripts
31 <!-- _Should mention somewhere that it *must* be in a directory called
34 {% include notebox-begin.html %}
36 The process described here should work regardless of whether @yourrepo@ contains a git repository. But normally you would only ever edit code in a git tree -- especially crunch scripts, which can't be used to run regular Arvados jobs until they're committed and pushed.
38 {% include notebox-end.html %}
41 Create a new crunch script called @hello-world@ (say, @edit crunch_scripts/hello-world@).
53 h3. Run the job in your VM.
55 Instead of a git commit hash, we provide the path to the working copy in the _script_version_ parameter.
58 read -rd $'\000' the_job <<'EOF'; arv-crunch-job --job "$the_job"
60 "script":"bug-factory",
61 "script_version":"/home/yourname/yourrepo"
69 No script_parameters specified at arv-crunch-job line 156
75 read -rd $'\000' the_job <<'EOF'; arv-crunch-job --job "$the_job"
77 "script":"hello-world",
78 "script_version":"/home/yourname/yourrepo",
79 "script_parameters":{}
84 You should see several attempts to run your script, each ending in tragedy:
87 2013-09-24_23:14:38 qr1hi-8i9sb-s1ngps1dznzrn8j 12311 0 stderr bash: /home/yourname/yourrepo/crunch_scripts/hello-world: Permission denied
88 2013-09-24_23:14:38 qr1hi-8i9sb-s1ngps1dznzrn8j 12311 0 stderr bash: line 0: exec: /home/yourname/yourrepo/crunch_scripts/hello-world: cannot execute: Permission denied
89 2013-09-24_23:14:38 qr1hi-8i9sb-s1ngps1dznzrn8j 12311 0 child 12323 on localhost.1 exit 32256 success=false
90 2013-09-24_23:14:38 qr1hi-8i9sb-s1ngps1dznzrn8j 12311 0 failure in 1 seconds
93 Indeed, @hello-world@ is not executable. Fix it:
96 chmod +x crunch_scripts/hello-world
101 This time, the job will still fail, but "hello world" will appear in the log.
104 2013-09-26_02:15:35 qr1hi-8i9sb-fbpcg2conrhnlxv 16179 0 job_task qr1hi-ot0gb-c3x9vcztahzdcol
105 2013-09-26_02:15:35 qr1hi-8i9sb-fbpcg2conrhnlxv 16179 0 child 16249 started on localhost.1
106 2013-09-26_02:15:36 qr1hi-8i9sb-fbpcg2conrhnlxv 16179 status: 0 done, 1 running, 0 todo
107 2013-09-26_02:15:36 qr1hi-8i9sb-fbpcg2conrhnlxv 16179 0 stderr hello world
108 2013-09-26_02:15:37 qr1hi-8i9sb-fbpcg2conrhnlxv 16179 0 child 16249 on localhost.1 exit 0 success=false
109 2013-09-26_02:15:37 qr1hi-8i9sb-fbpcg2conrhnlxv 16179 0 failure in 1 seconds
112 There are two problems here:
114 1. The string "hello world" should be stored as the job's output instead of noted in the job log as "stderr".
115 2. The task exited 0, but was recorded as a failure.
117 The job should work properly after we fix these two problems.
119 h3. Store output as a collection
121 Replace the @print "hello world"@ line with the following code.
124 out = arvados.CollectionWriter()
125 out.set_current_file_name('hello.txt')
126 out.write('hello world')
127 out_collection = out.finish()
130 <!-- _Explain better_ -->
132 The return value of @out.finish()@ is the content address (hash) of a collection stored in Keep.
134 h3. Record successful completion
136 Append the following line.
139 arvados.current_task().set_output(out_collection)
142 The @set_output()@ method tells Arvados that
143 * The hash specified by the @out_collection@ parameter is the output of this task, and
144 * This task completed successfully.
146 <!-- _Putting this in a separate section from the code blob above is
149 h3. Run the working script.
152 read -rd $'\000' the_job <<'EOF'; arv-crunch-job --job "$the_job"
154 "script":"hello-world",
155 "script_version":"/home/yourname/yourrepo",
156 "script_parameters":{}
161 If everything worked correctly, the end of the log in your terminal should look like this.
164 2013-09-26_02:27:07 qr1hi-8i9sb-xsgms0qsf4ztm3l 17149 output dd202dc7b1297aa221c9160455ba43ac+61+K@qr1hi
165 2013-09-26_02:27:08 qr1hi-8i9sb-xsgms0qsf4ztm3l 17149 finish
166 2013-09-26_02:27:09 qr1hi-8i9sb-xsgms0qsf4ztm3l 17149 meta key is c186e6555b51ac6974d951cd2f387722+1764+K@qr1hi