Name change for output directories of off design problems.#983
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Name change for output directories of off design problems.#983OwenShepherd wants to merge 6 commits intoOpenMDAO:mainfrom
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Essentially, if your problem is named test, the baseline report dir will be 'test_out' and if you run multiple problems of a specific type, i.e. 'fallout', subsequent runs of the same problem will increment the directory: - test_fallout_out - test_fallout_2_out - test_fallout_3_out - and so on.
This adds some logic to update the naming of the output directories in line with the aforementioned unit test.
Use the current datetime instead of numbering output directories.
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Thanks Owen! This is basically what I was planning on (but never got around to). I am concerned that the folders become this hard-to-parse string of numbers that will seem like random/cryptic code to new/basic users. The only reason we care about exact seconds it in case someone runs a lot of quick cases back-to-back, but other than that I don't think it matters much.
This is probably be good to merge, since folder w/ complex name is better than overwriting the previous folder. I am thinking about ways to streamline, I'll post those ideas in the issue so they are easier to find.
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Summary
This adds logic and a test to essentially do the following to resolve issue #957 and follow up @jkirk5's comment on PR #981:
If your problem is named 'test', the baseline output directory will be named 'test_out', and if you run off design problem types (say, fallout, alternate, etc) without a name the problem type and the time the problem was run will be added to its name to produce the following directory outputs:
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