servicex 2.0.0b10

Front-end for the ServiceX Data Server

ServiceX_frontend

Client access library for ServiceX

Introduction

Given you have a selection string, this library will manage submitting it to a ServiceX instance and retrieving the data locally for you. The selection string is often generated by another front-end library, for example:

• func_adl.xAOD (for ATLAS xAOD's)
• func_adl.uproot (for flat ntuples)
• tcut_to_castle (translates TCut like syntax into a servicex query - should work for both)

Prerequisites

Before you can use this library you'll need:

• An environment based on python 3.6 or later
• A ServiceX end-point. For example, http://localhost:5000/servicex, if ServiceX is running on a local k8 cluster and the proper ports are open, or the public servicex instance (contact IRIS-HEP at xxx if you are part of the LHC to request an account, or with help setting up an instance).

How to access your endpoint

The servicex library searches for configuration information in several locations to determine what end-point it should connect to, in the following order:

1. A .servicex file in the current working directory
2. A .servicex file in the user's home directory ($HOME on Linux and Mac, and your profile directory on Windows).
3. The config_defaults.yaml file distributed with the servicex package.

If no endpoint is specified, then the library defaults to the developer endpoint, which is http://localhost:5000 for the web-service API, and localhost:9000 for the minio endpoint. No passwords are required.

Create a .servicex file, in the yaml format, in the appropriate place for your work that contains the following:

api_endpoint:
  endpoint: <your-endpoint>
  username: <api-username>
  password: <api-password>

  minio_endpoint: <minio-endpoint>
  minio_username: <minio-accesskey>
  minio_password: <minio-secretkey>

Finally, you can create the objects ServiceXAdaptor and MinioAdaptor by hand in your code, passing them as arguments to ServiceXDataset and inject custom endpoints and usernames and passwords, avoiding the configuration system. This is probably only useful for advanced users.

Usage

The following lines will return a pandas.DataFrame containing all the jet pT's from an ATLAS xAOD file containing Z->ee Monte Carlo:

    from servicex import ServiceX
    query = "(call ResultTTree (call Select (call SelectMany (call EventDataset (list 'localds:bogus')) (lambda (list e) (call (attr e 'Jets') 'AntiKt4EMTopoJets'))) (lambda (list j) (/ (call (attr j 'pt')) 1000.0))) (list 'JetPt') 'analysis' 'junk.root')"
    dataset = "mc15_13TeV:mc15_13TeV.361106.PowhegPythia8EvtGen_AZNLOCTEQ6L1_Zee.merge.DAOD_STDM3.e3601_s2576_s2132_r6630_r6264_p2363_tid05630052_00"
    ds = ServiceXDataset(dataset)
    r = ds.get_data_pandas_df(query)
    print(r)

And the output in a terminal window from running the above script (takes about 1-2 minutes to complete):

python scripts/run_test.py http://localhost:5000/servicex
            JetPt
entry
0       38.065707
1       31.967096
2        7.881337
3        6.669581
4        5.624053
...           ...
710183  42.926141
710184  30.815709
710185   6.348002
710186   5.472711
710187   5.212714

[11355980 rows x 1 columns]

If your query is badly formed or there is an other problem with the backend, an exception will be thrown with information about the error.

If you'd like to be able to submit multiple queries and have them run on the ServiceX back end in parallel, it is best to use the asyncio interface, which has the identical signature, but is called get_data_pandas_df_async.

For documentation of get_data and get_data_async see the servicex.py source file.

Configuration

As mentioned above, the .servicex file is read to pull a configuraiton. The search path for this file:

1. Your current working directory
2. Your home directory

The file can contain an api_endpoint as mentioned above. In addition the other following things can be put in:

• cache_path: Location where queries, data, and a record of queries are written. This should be an absolute path the person running the library has r/w access to. On windows, make sure to escape \ - and best to follow standard yaml conventions and put the path in quotes - especially if it contains a space. Top level yaml item (don't indent it accidentally!). Defaults to /tmp/servicex (with the temp directory as appropriate for your platform) Examples:
  • Windows: cache_path: "C:\\Users\\gordo\\Desktop\\cacheme"
  • Linux: cache_path: "/home/servicex-cache"

Features

Implemented:

• Accepts a qastle formatted query
• Exceptions are used to report back errors of all sorts from the service to the user's code.
• Data is return in the following forms:
  • pandas.DataFrame an in process DataFrame of all the data requested
  • awkward an in process JaggedArray or dictionary of JaggedArrays
  • A list of root files that can be opened with uproot and used as desired.
  • Not all output formats are compatible with all transformations.
• Complete returned data must fit in the process' memory
• Run in an async or a non-async environment and non-async methods will accommodate automatically (including jupyter notebooks).
• Support up to 100 simultaneous queries from a laptop-like front end without overwhelming the local machine (hopefully ServiceX will be overwhelmed!)
• Start downloading files as soon as they are ready (before ServiceX is done with the complete transform).
• It has been tested to run against 100 datasets with multiple simultaneous queries.
• It supports local caching of query data
• It will provide feedback on progress.
• Configuration files supported so that user identification information does not have to be checked into repositories.

Testing

This code has been tested in several environments:

• Windows, Linux, MacOS
• Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8
• Jupyter Notebooks (not automated), regular python command-line invoked source files

API

Everything is based around the ServiceXDataset object. Below is the documentation for the most common parameters.

  ServiceXDataset(dataset: str,
                 image: str = 'sslhep/servicex_func_adl_xaod_transformer:v0.4',
                 max_workers: int = 20,
                 servicex_adaptor: ServiceXAdaptor = None,
                 minio_adaptor: MinioAdaptor = None,
                 cache_adaptor: Optional[Cache] = None,
                 status_callback_factory: Optional[StatusUpdateFactory] = _run_default_wrapper,
                 local_log: log_adaptor = None,
                 session_generator: Callable[[], Awaitable[aiohttp.ClientSession]] = None,
                 config_adaptor: ConfigView = None)
      Create and configure a ServiceX object for a dataset.

      Arguments

          dataset                     Name of a dataset from which queries will be selected.
          image                       Name of transformer image to use to transform the data
          max_workers                 Maximum number of transformers to run simultaneously on
                                      ServiceX.
          servicex_adaptor            Object to control communication with the servicex instance
                                      at a particular ip address with certain login credentials.
                                      Will be configured via the `.servicex` file by default.
          minio_adaptor               Object to control communication with the minio servicex
                                      instance. By default configured with values from the
                                      `.servicex` file.
          cache_adaptor               Runs the caching for data and queries that are sent up and
                                      down.
          status_callback_factory     Factory to create a status notification callback for each
                                      query. One is created per query.
          local_log                   Log adaptor for logging.
          session_generator           If you want to control the `ClientSession` object that
                                      is used for callbacks. Otherwise a single one for all
                                      `servicex` queries is used.
          config_adaptor              Control how configuration options are read from the
                                      `.servicex` file.

      Notes:

          -  The `status_callback` argument, by default, uses the `tqdm` library to render
             progress bars in a terminal window or a graphic in a Jupyter notebook (with proper
             jupyter extensions installed). If `status_callback` is specified as None, no
             updates will be rendered. A custom callback function can also be specified which
             takes `(total_files, transformed, downloaded, skipped)` as an argument. The
             `total_files` parameter may be `None` until the system knows how many files need to
             be processed (and some files can even be completed before that is known).

To get the data use one of the get_data method. They all have the same API, differing only by what they return.

 |  get_data_awkward_async(self, selection_query: str) -> Dict[bytes, Union[awkward.array.jagged.JaggedArray, numpy.ndarray]]
 |      Fetch query data from ServiceX matching `selection_query` and return it as
 |      dictionary of awkward arrays, an entry for each column. The data is uniquely
 |      ordered (the same query will always return the same order).
 |
 |  get_data_awkward(self, selection_query: str) -> Dict[bytes, Union[awkward.array.jagged.JaggedArray, numpy.ndarray]]
 |      Fetch query data from ServiceX matching `selection_query` and return it as
 |      dictionary of awkward arrays, an entry for each column. The data is uniquely
 |      ordered (the same query will always return the same order).

Each data type comes in a pair - an async version and a synchronous version.

• get_data_awkward_async, get_data_awkward - Returns a dictionary of the requested data as numpy or JaggedArray objects.
• get_data_rootfiles, get_data_rootfiles_async - Returns a list of locally download files (as pathlib.Path objects) containing the requested data. Suitable for opening with ROOT::TFile or uproot.
• get_data_pandas_df, get_data_pandas_df_async - Returns the data as a pandas DataFrame. This will fail if the data you've requested has any structure (e.g. is hierarchical, like a single entry for each event, and each event may have some number of jets).
• get_data_parquet, get_data_parquet_async - Returns a list of files locally downloaded that can be read by any parquet tools.

Development

For any changes please feel free to submit pull requests!

To do development please setup your environment with the following steps:

1. A python 3.7 development environment
2. Fork/Pull down this package, XX
3. python -m pip install -e .[test]
4. Run the tests to make sure everything is good: pytest.

Then add tests as you develop. When you are done, submit a pull request with any required changes to the documentation and the online tests will run.