ReadAthenaRoot Namespace Reference

Functions
	_configure ()

Function Documentation

_configure()

ReadAthenaRoot._configure ( )

protected

Install the Athena-based TTree event selector and correctly configure
a few other services.

Definition at line 10 of file ReadAthenaRoot.py.

def _configure():
    """Install the Athena-based TTree event selector and correctly configure
    a few other services.
    """
    from AthenaCommon import CfgMgr
    from AthenaCommon.AppMgr import theApp
    from AthenaCommon.AppMgr import ServiceMgr as svcMgr
    from AthenaCommon.Logging import logging
    from AthenaCommon.AthenaCommonFlags import athenaCommonFlags
    msg = logging.getLogger( 'ReadAthenaRoot' )
    msg.debug("Configuring Athena for reading ROOT files (via TChain)...")
 
    
    if hasattr(svcMgr, 'EventSelector'):
        err = "svcMgr already configured with another EventSelector: [%s]"%\
            svcMgr.EventSelector.getFullJobOptName()
        msg.error( err )
        raise RuntimeError( err )
 
 
    #Setup our EventSelector
    svcMgr += CfgMgr.Athena__RootNtupleEventSelector( "EventSelector" )
 
 
    #for historical reasons, we now add configurables of a bunch of services
    #this could be gotten rid of in the future, just here to save existing jobo from errors
    if not hasattr(svcMgr, 'THistSvc'): svcMgr += CfgMgr.THistSvc()
    if not hasattr(svcMgr, 'ProxyProviderSvc'): svcMgr += CfgMgr.ProxyProviderSvc()
    if not hasattr(svcMgr, 'Athena::NtupleCnvSvc'): svcMgr += CfgMgr.Athena__NtupleCnvSvc()
 
        
    #Here we set various properties of things 
    theApp.ExtSvc += [ svcMgr.EventSelector.getFullName() ]
    theApp.EvtSel = "EventSelector"
    #default the input collections to the FilesInput from AthenaCommonFlags
    #this is so that the eventselector picks up input files in grid jobs
    svcMgr.EventSelector.InputCollections = athenaCommonFlags.FilesInput()
 
    
    # suppress the event loop heartbeat as it is somewhat I/O hungry for
    # no real gain in n-tuple reading/writing scenarii
    if not hasattr(svcMgr, theApp.EventLoop): svcMgr += getattr(CfgMgr, theApp.EventLoop)()
    evtloop = getattr(svcMgr, theApp.EventLoop)
    try:
        evtloop.EventPrintoutInterval = 10000
    except Exception:
        msg.info('disabling event loop heartbeat... [failed]')
        msg.info('performances might be sub-par... sorry.')
        pass
 
    msg.debug("Configuring Athena for reading ROOT files (via TChain)... [OK]")
    return
 
# execute at module import