alfalfa-client 0.7.0

A standalone client for the NREL Alfalfa application

Alfalfa Client

The purpose of this repository is to provide a standalone client for use with the Alfalfa application. It additionally includes a Historian to quickly/easily enable saving of results from Alfalfa simulations.

Usage

This repo is packaged and hosted on PyPI here.

pip install alfalfa-client

from alfalfa_client.alfalfa_client import AlfalfaClient

client = AlfalfaClient("http://localhost")

Additional documentation for the functions of alfalfa-client can be found here.

Development

Prerequisites:

• poetry for managing environment

Cloning and Installing:

git clone https://github.com/NREL/alfalfa-client.git
cd alfalfa-client
poetry install

Running Tests: All alfalfa-client tests currently require a running instance of Alfalfa with at least 2 workers.

poetry run pytest -m integration

Releasing

1. Finish merging PRs into develop
2. Confirm all tests pass
3. Update the version (assume version is 0.1.2): poetry version 0.1.2
4. Create PR to merge version update
5. Rebase develop onto main, make sure tests pass
6. Create a tag: git tag 0.1.2
7. Build: poetry build
8. Publish poetry publish (this will push to pypi)
9. Create a new release on the Github repository using the tag and link to PyPI