Call a function

Calling a function from code¶

Our goal is to provide an interface to deployed functions that works just like any other function in any other library that you have locally installed.

We provide an example call_free_fall.py in the same directory as the free_fall_lmrtfy.py script.

As you can see, calling a remote function via LMRTFY feels just like calling a native function.

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from time import sleep
from lmrtfy import catalog  # (1)!

job = catalog.examples.free_fall_lmrtfy(time=100.) # (2)!

if job:
    print(job.id, job.status)

    while not job.ready: # (3)!
        sleep(1.)

    print(job.results) # (4)!

1. Importing the catalog triggers the catalog update to get newly deployed functions every time you run the code. Our examples are all part of the catalog in the catalog.examples namespace.
2. The function free_fall_lmrtfy is now part of the catalog and can be called just like a normal function in your code. The function is not executed in the same context as your Python interpreter. Instead it is run in one of the runners.
3. Loop until the job is ready. In this context ready means that the results are ready to be fetched.
4. Fetching the results is as simple as calling job.results. The return value is a dictionary with the keys corresponding to the names of the results and the values are the actual values of the result

Run the script with your local python interpreter python call_free_fall.py. It runs just like a regular script but calls a remote function inside.

The output of the script looks like this:

INFO Validating auth token.
INFO Auth token accepted.
INFO Valid access token found. Login not necessary.
INFO Updated function catalog.
INFO Added function free_fall_lmrtfy.
INFO Job CLuz1ZrpR7 created. Status is RUNNING. # (1)!
CLuz1ZrpR7 JobStatus.RUNNING
{'velocity': 981.0} # (2)!

1. The job ID is always a 10-character long ID. The reported status is sometimes UNKNOWN which usually means that the LMRTFY platform has not processed the job yet.
2. The result of the computation is a dictionary with the variable names as keys and the actual value as values.

The ID of the job is going to be different from the one shown in the example output. Job IDs are always 10 characters long.

Using the CLI¶

LMRTFY also provides a way to submit jobs with the lmrtfy CLI tool. All you need for this is a profile_id (7 characters long) which is provided by you during the deployment and a JSON file that contains the input parameters.

For the example calculating the compound interest, the JSON file would look like this:

{
  "argument_values": {
    "time": 100
  },
  "argument_units": {
    "time": "s"
  }
}

argument_values and argument_units contain a key-value pair each for each of the inputs in the annotation profile. The types need to match exactly. No implicit type casting in performed during the submission. The unit also has to match exactly.

Save the JSON file es input.json and run:

$ lmrtfy submit <profile_id> input.json

When you submit your job you will receive a job_id which is needed to fetch the results as you will see in the next part of this guide.