Components, Factories, and Libraries

components

Doing series of related studies using RAIL requires many pieces, such as the lists of algorithms available, sets of analysis pipelines we might run, types of plots we might make, types of data we can extract from out analyses, references to particular files or sets of files we want to use for out analysses, and so for. In general we call these analysis components, and we need ways to keep track of them.

We have implemented interfaces to allow us to read and write components to yaml files.

factories

A Factory is a python class that can make specific type or types of components, assign names to each, and keep track of what it has made.

libraries:

A library is the collection of all the components that have been loaded. Typically there are collected into one, or a few yaml configuration files to allow users to load them easily.