CHANGELOG.md

Release notes

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Breaking changes

• All fields of Composition are now private (!273)
• Input.source is private, Input.get_source() becomes property Input.source, Input.set_source becomes a getter (!273)
• Output.targets is private, Output.get_targets() becomes property Output.targets (!273)
• Composition metadata was restructured to hold components and adapters in separate sub-dictionaries (!274)
• Time components implement method _next_time instead of property next_time (!283)

Features

• Components and adapters automatically provide default metadata that can be extended by implementations (!274, !276)
• Grid class now have attributes providing connectivity information for the contained cells (!275)
  • cells_connectivity: connectivity array as used by ESMF and VTK
  • cells_definition: cell definition as used by PyVista and legacy VTK
  • cells_offset: location of the start of each cell in cells_connectivity
• added convenience functions and constants to grid_tools (!275)
  • get_cells_matrix: convert cells_connectivity or cells_definition back to the default cells matrix used in the Grid class (can be used to convert VTK-grids into FINAM-grids)
  • INV_VTK_TYPE_MAP: inverse mapping to VTK_TYPE_MAP - FINAM cell type to VTK cell type
  • VTK_CELL_DIM: parametric dimension for each VTK cell type
• Grid class now reusable when having different data locations and better grid type casting (!278)
  • added copy method to grids with optional argument deep (False by default) to create a copy of a grid
  • added setter for data_location in order to set a new data location (e.g. after copying a grid)
  • added class attribute valid_locations in order to check the set data location (esri-grid only supports cells, unstructured-points only support points)
  • added missing casting methods to convert esri to uniform and uniform to rectilinear (when you want to use point data on an esri-grid, you can cast it to uniform first)
  • added axes_attributes also to unstructured grids
• Grid method compatible_with now has a check_location argument to optionally check data location (!280)

Documentation

• Minor fixes in documentation examples and links (!272)
• Adds a book section on composition, component and adapter metadata (!274)

v0.5.1

Bug fixes

• Fix unquantified masked arrays loosing mask in fm.data.prepare() (#115, !270)

v0.5.0

Features

• Components and adapters can provide a dictionary of meta data (!259)
• Class Composition hat a property metadata that collects and returns the meta data from all components and adapters (!259)
• Automatic conversion between compatible grids (!255)
• Adds methods to_canonical, from_canonical and get_transform_to to grid classes (!255)
• Adds support for masked grids using numpy.ma.MaskedArray (!258, !260)
• Adds convenience functions for dealing with masked arrays in data.tools (!260): is_masked_array, has_masked_values, filled, to_compressed, from_compressed, check_data_covers_domain

Documentation

• Adds a book chapter on wrapping existing models for FINAM (!256)
• Adds a book section on masked data (!262)

Bug fixes

• No more logging of expected FinamNoDataError in inputs during the connect phase (!257)

Other

• FINAM is now available on Conda via conda-forge

v0.4.0

New scheduling algorithm

• FINAM uses a new scheduling algorithm that allows components to use future data instead of only past/current (!157, !159)
• New adapters to resolve circular coupling through the use of delayed data (!187)
• It is now possible to set up static couplings that run only once and have no explicit time or stepping (!166)
• FINAM can handle different starting times of components by pushing initial data twice (!206): Once for the common starting time, and once for the actual component time
• Components are no longer required to push all outputs on every step (!208)

Data and metadata rework

• Outputs check compatibility between metadata of inputs if there is more than one target input (!104)
• Add data tools function compatible_units to check for convertibility (!105)
• Components can exchange their starting time through the Info object (!111)
• Info exchange is automated by the ConnectHelper by specifying transfer rules at initialization (!154)
• Info now requires time in constructor (can be None) (!111)
• Scheduler checks for dead links that don't work in terms of push/pull combination (!112)
• IInput, IOutput and IAdapter have new internally used properties needs_push and needs_pull (!112)
• to_xarray now checks the data shape if the data is not flat (!130)
• Outputs can be flagged static for data that is only used during initialization, or that is constant (!166)
• Inputs can be flagged static for constant data (!171)
• Outputs accept and convert compatible units, not only exactly equal units (!215)
• Outputs check that subsequent data pushes don't share memory (!217)
• Exchanged xarray data has no time coordinate anymore, only a dimension without values (for performance and usability) (!223)
• Remove the xarray wrapping completely. Use numpy arrays in pint Quantity (!235)
• Outputs and adapters can have a memory_limit and write data to disk if the limit is exceeded (!238)

Components

• Add modules.WeightedSum for aggregation of multiple inputs (!105)
• Add modules.SimplexNoise for generating spatio-temporal noise (!131)
• Add modules.TimeTrigger to forward data from pull-based to push-based components (!131)
• Add modules.ScheduleLogger to visualize scheduling/module updates through ASCII charts (!160)
• Add modules.DebugPushConsumer as a push-based variant of the debug consumer (!165)
• Add modules.UserControl that lets users control FINAM runs from the terminal (!184)
• modules.DebugConsumer and modules.DebugPushConsumer can use optional callbacks for better debugging (!176)
• Components can be renamed using the method with_name() (!243)

Adapters

• Add adapters.Histogram to extract a histogram from grid values (!182)
• Add adapters.DelayFixed, adapters.DelayToPull and adapters.DelayToPush to resolve circular coupling through the use of delayed data (!187)
• Add adapters.StepTime for step-wise interpolation (!194)
• Restructuring of time integration adapters (!194)
  • adapters.IntegrateTime renamed to adapters.AvgOverTime
  • Add adapters.SumOverTime for sum/Area under Curve integration
• Adapters have a method finalize() for cleanup (!226).
• Adapters can be renamed using the method with_name() (!243)

Other

• Remove module core, subpackages now under finam (!106)
• Rename IOutput.source_changed() to source_updated (!107)
• Rename LogError to ErrorLogger (!107)
• Rename abstract SDK classes: (!107)
  • AAdapter is now Adapter
  • AComponent is now Component
  • ATimeComponent is now TimeComponent
• Changed arguments for create_connector() (!111)
  • Removed required_out_infos
  • Renamed required_in_data to pull_data
  • Added arguments to specify info exchange rules
• All error types are in module errors now, and re-exported at top level (!116)
• Overwriting _validate() and _finalize() in components is now mandatory (!156)
• Input and output slots can be accessed from components directly, e.g. comp["A"] instead of comp.inputs["A"] (!147)
• Inputs and outputs can be marked as static for constant data without time information (!166, !171)
• New helper function tools.inspect() to inspect components, adapters and I/O slots (!197)
• Publish on PyPI, starting with the next release (!198, !200, !201)
• Added benchmarks for the most important FINAM functions (see the benchmarks README)
• Added profiling for full runs to the CI (!221)
• Optimization of data tool functions, with approx. 20-fold speedup of basic push+pull (!222, !223, !224, !228, !229, !237).
• Add two more log levels: TRACE (most verbose) and PROFILE (between DEBUG and INFO) (!240)

v0.4.0-rc.2

Data and metadata rework

• Add conversion between CRS to regridding adapters, using pyproj (!95)
• Add more data tool functions: quantify(xdata), check_axes_uniformity(axes) and strip_data(xdata) (!96, !100)
• In outputs, the name of the data is overwritten instead of failing the check (!98)
• Adapters can pass through data with time, even if it does not match the pull time (which is quite common) (!98)

Interface

• Add CallbackOutput for implementing pull-based components (!102)
• Connect phase of scheduler can be called separately from run (!99)
• No need to set component status in constructor anymore (!100)

Other

• Components are allowed to be in state VALIDATED at the end of a run (i.e. not updated) (!97)
• Component connector checks that inputs and outputs referenced in arguments actually exist (!101)

v0.4.0-rc.1

Data and metadata rework

• Grid specifications for structured and unstructured grids (!74): RectilinearGrid, UniformGrid, EsriGrid, UnstructuredGrid and UnstructuredPoints
• Use of xarray.DataArray for all exchanged data (!74)
• All exchanged data must have pint units (can be "dimensionless") (!74)
• Metadata about grid specification, units and other metadata is exchanged before the first data exchange (!77)
• Metadata exchange is iterative and bi-directional (!77) Components can depend on metadata from source or target components
• Inputs check compatibility of incoming metadata with own requirements (!77)
• Inputs and outputs check compatibility of incoming data with metadata (!77)
• Automatic conversion of array-like and scalars to xarray.DataArray in outputs, with metadata check (!74, !77)

Adapters

• New adapters for linear and nearest-neighbour regridding from and to all available grid types (!77, !87)
• Removed adapter GridCellCallback (!79)

Components

• Removed GridView component (new implementation in finam-plot) (!79)

Usability

• The finam package has a flatter module hierarchy now, so the most important classes are now exported at the top level (!92)
• Component developers do not overwrite interface methods like update() anymore, but internal methods like _update() instead (!85)

Other

• More ergonomic input and output creation in components (!80, !82)
• Input and output mappings are immutable after initialization (!82)
• Brought up test coverage to 98% (!93)

v0.3.0

Interface

• IOutput now has a property has_target to determine whether it is connected (!54)
• IInput now has a property has_source to determine whether it is connected (!63)
• CallbackComponent for generic, callback-based data generation, transform or consumption (!55)
• IComponent.inputs, IComponent.outputs, IComponent.status and ITimeComponent.time are now properties instead of methods (!53)
• Support for initialization from inputs / iterative connect (!69)
  • Changed logic and ComponentStatus to be set in component method connect()

Other

• Logging capability, incl. C-level output capturing (!64, !70, !71)
• Grid now uses MaskedArray, to improve handling of missing data
• Vertical/Y grid indices are now flipped, to conform with (typical) NetCDF and ASCII grid format (!51)
• Minimal Python version is now 3.7, to ensure consistent dict order (!58)
• Most asserts replaced by raising errors (!52)
• Grid visualization supports color scale limits (!61)
• Context manager and helper function to execute code in a certain working directory (!62)
• Status checks moved from component methods to composition/scheduler (!65)
• Adapters check that requested time it in the range of available data (!66)

Bug fixes

• Fix check for None data in Grid constructor (!50)

v0.2.0

Changes

• Uses Python's datetime and timedelta for all time-related parameters
• Removed temporal sum integration adapter

v0.1.0

• initial release of FINAM