images not saved under default_dir

[yslan]

Hi,

I'm trying to put default images under a local folder imgs/ (the path exists). When I follow the documentation and set it in ascent_options.json, every works as expected.

{
  "default_dir" : "/path/to/output/dir"
}

However, when I tried to hard code it into the interface with the folllowing line (copied from test/t_ascent_runtime_options.cpp), the images are saved to pwd instead of $pwd/imgs

ascent_opts["default_dir"] = "imgs";

When doing this test, I make sure there is no ascent_options.json and ascent_options.yaml in my current folder.

I do see an error when the default_dir does not exist, meaning it's indeed checking the path. And, at the end, the ascent_session.yaml is indeed saved under imgs/. For some reason, only the images do not honor the default_dir. My image_prefix: "q_%06d" is not using an absolute path.

I'm using the commit 6d1ca3f
Can someone confirm whether there's a bug?

Thanks,
Yu-Hsiang

[nicolemarsaglia]

Hi @yslan, thanks for pointing this out. I will investigate and get back to you!

[nicolemarsaglia]

Hi @yslan, so far I have not been able to duplicate what you are experiencing. I can, however, create this bug when I use image_name rather than image_prefix and have a fix in #1295.

Could you share the rest of your ascent actions?

[cyrush]

@yslan are you still hitting this issue?

[yslan]

@cyrush Yes, I still have this issue.
This runs on Polaris. Images are saved to the case folder and only the ascent_session.yaml is saved to img/

• version

  version: "0.9.2-8baa7"
  git_sha1: "8baa78c9f2f32f7e170d3281ee7168226bc3cb41"
  

• setup

     conduit::Node ascent_opts;
     ascent_opts["mpi_comm"] = MPI_Comm_c2f(comm);
     ascent_opts["default_dir"] = "imgs";
  
     nekAscent::mAscent.open(ascent_opts);
  

  ascent_opts.prints() does show default_dir: "imgs"

• action file

  - 
    action: "add_pipelines"
    pipelines:
      pl1:
        f1:
          type: "slice"
          params:
            point:
              x: 0.0
              y: 0.0
              z: 0.0
            normal:
              x: 1.0
              y: 0.0
              z: 0.0
  - 
    action: "add_scenes"
    scenes:
      s1:
        plots:
          p1:
            type: "pseudocolor"
            field: "scalar00"
            pipeline: "pl1"
            color_table:
              name: "Cool to Warm Extended"
            min_value: 0.0
            max_value: 1.0
        renders:
          r1:
            camera:
              azimuth: 90
              zoom: 8.0
            image_prefix: "s00_%06d"
            world_annotations: false
            screen_annotations: false
            image_width: 2048
            image_height: 256
  

[nicolemarsaglia]

@yslan Thanks for the additional information, I will see if this gets me closer to recreating your bug!