Automators (automatically trigger run of jobs)

[mfitzp]

Sometimes it is nice to automatically run an analysis based on external triggers. Pathomx should support 'automator' tools that can trigger the execution of other tools.

Automators are tool-like but do not contain editable code. The output is a config dict which can be connected into another tool to automatically change it's configuration.

Using this setup implementation of specific automators can be achieved. In each case the config update will trigger the target.

• timer trigger; emit config containing {'timestamp':<>}
• file changed trigger; emit config containing {'filename':<>}
• folder changed trigger; emit config containing {'folder':<>}

Together with IPython notebook import this would allow import of QtIPy tool settings to offer a more 'useful' "data automator" tool.