[esp-r] Re: api

[Jon Hand]

There is a facility which we call the flat-file format which holds most
of the data needed to generate an ESP-r model. This file is passed to
the project manager (prj) in the command line and it converts this
into the majority of an ESP-r model. There is almost no interaction
required.

There are several 3rd party developers who are working
on generating this flat-file. Details of the data structure can
be found in the archive folder of the ESP-r source distribution.

This file format is gradually being extended as time permits.
We would welcome your comments.

Regards, Jon Hand

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From: esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk [esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Janssen [patrick at janssen.name]
Sent: 17 February 2009 11:49
To: esp-r at lists.strath.ac.uk
Subject: [esp-r]  api

Hi all,

I have a project where we need to interface with esp-r at a programmatic level - i.e. we need to invoke esp-r from another application that we are developing, and we don't need the esp-r gui. Ideally, we want a way of getting teh data into esp-r, running the simulation, and the getting teh data out again, all without any file writing.

Are there any api's that might simplify this task - I realise the software is open source, but delving into the core code is quite daunting. I am wondering if anyone has created a higher level api.

If not, then maybe someone could point us to the righ place to start looking at the esp-r code.

Regards
Patrick
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Dr Patrick Janssen
Department of Architecture
National University of Singapore
http://patrick.janssen.name
patrick at janssen.name<mailto:patrick at janssen.name>
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