Configuration

Each configuration must specify the section of metadata and task. Metadata and each task can define the output section.

Metadata

Metadata section contains the following parameters / sections.

Parameter / Section	Description
output	Output section. For further details, please see the below section.

Task

Each task is a key-value pair where the key is the name of the task, and the value is a dictionary of parameters.

Parameter	Description	Required / Optional
caller	Caller function or method of the specified object. The function format must be in <module>:<function>, while the method should be specified as object.<method>.	Required
object	Object if the caller is specified as an object method.	(Optional)
parameters	Function arguments. Either a list of unnamed arguments or a dictionary of named arguments	(Optional)

Output

The output section defines how the task writes and loads the task return. The section in metadata applies for all tasks globally while that in each task overrides the global parameters.

Parameter	Description
directory	Directory of the output file. Default is null, stored in memory without any file dump.
name	Name of the output file. Default is same as the task name.
format	Output format. Supported stdlib formats are pickle and json. Default is pickle.
load-caller	Caller to load the output formatted in <module>:<function>. The function / method should accept the task return value as the first argument.
load-parameters	Dictionary of named parameters of the load function / method, other than the first argument.
dump-caller	Caller to dump the output formatted either in <module>:<function> or object.<method>. The function / method should accept the task return value and output path as the first and second argument respectively.
dump-parameters	Dictionary of named parameters of the dump function / method, other than the first two arguments.