skbio.workflow.Workflow¶

class skbio.workflow.Workflow(state, short_circuit=True, debug=False, options=None, **kwargs)[source]¶

Arbitrary workflow support structure

Methods that are considered to be directly part of the workflow must be decorated with method. The workflow methods offer a mechanism to logically group functionality together, and are free to make subsequent calls to other methods.

All methods of a subclass of Workflow (those with and without the method decoration) can take advantage of the requires decorator to specify any option or state requirements for the decorated function.

Parameters:

state : object State can be anything or nothing. This is dependent on the workflow as in some cases, it is useful to preallocate state while in other workflows state may be ignored. short_circuit : bool if True, enables ignoring function methods when a given item has failed debug : bool Enable debug mode options : dict runtime options, {‘option’:values}, that the requires decorator can interrogate. kwargs : dict Additional arguments will be added as member variables to self. This is handy if additional contextual information is needed by a workflow method (e.g., a lookup table).

Methods

initialize_state(item)

Initialize state