Altair RISE

A program to recognize and reward our most engaged community members

Nominate Yourself Now!

Batch mode with JAR file

Hi,

I'd like to use RapidMiner in batch mode without the GUI.
With the bash script "scripts/rapidminer CONTROL.xml" this works
fine. However, I would prefer to use the shipped JAR file
from the "lib" directory "rapidminer.jar". Starting it with
"java -jar lib/rapidminer.jar CONTROL.xml" ends up in the
invocation of the GUI without executing the provided xml
file.

Is there a way to start RapidMiner in batch mode with
the JAR file? Or can the JAR file be adjusted to do so?

Greetings,
Chris

Find more posts tagged with

AI Studio

Accepted answers

All comments

steffen

Hello

Assuming that you are a linux guy...
I am no bash expert, but did you take a look at the file "rapidminer"

The interesting part is this one:


BUILD="${RAPIDMINER_HOME}/build"
RAPIDMINER_JAR="${RAPIDMINER_HOME}/lib/rapidminer.jar"
RAPIDMINER_CLASSPATH=""

if [ -d "${BUILD}" ] ; then
    RAPIDMINER_CLASSPATH=${BUILD}
elif [ -f "${RAPIDMINER_JAR}" ] ; then
    RAPIDMINER_CLASSPATH=${RAPIDMINER_JAR}
else
    echo "Neither ${BUILD} nor ${RAPIDMINER_JAR} was found."
    echo "Try 'ant build' or 'ant dist' first or check the value of RAPIDMINER_HOME!"
    exit 1
fi

To avoid using the build - directory (I do not know why you want to do this...) replace the if-condition with this assignment:


RAPIDMINER_CLASSPATH=${RAPIDMINER_JAR}

[glow=lightgreen,2,300]The final java command is at the bottom of the script[/glow] (as an inspiration for further changes).

On windows (rapidminer.bat), these are the interesting lines:


if exist "%RAPIDMINER_JAR%" set RAPIDMINER_CLASSPATH=%RAPIDMINER_JAR%
if exist "%BUILD%" set RAPIDMINER_CLASSPATH=%BUILD%
if "%RAPIDMINER_CLASSPATH%"=="" goto error1

Please note that the command you have posted does not include the libraries in the /bin - directory. This can cause some serious trouble...

Maybe I got you wrong...in this case please specify what do you want to achieve

greetings,

Steffen

chris_ml

Hi Steffen,

Assuming that you are a linux guy...

Yep.

To avoid using the build - directory (I do not know why you want to do this...) replace the if-condition with this assignment:

My idea was to just copy the single archive "lib/rapidminer.jar" to an arbitrary
Linux machine and execute it there with "java -jar" to apply some models
learned previously. Is this not feasible? Do I always have to provide all the
libraries from the "lib" directory when invoking java with "-cp ${CLASSPATH}"
and in addition the class "com.rapidminer.RapidMinerCommandLine" ?

Regards,
Chris

steffen

Hello again

[quote author=chris_ml]
Do I always have to provide all the libraries from the "lib" directory when invoking java with "-cp ${CLASSPATH}"
[/quote]
I guess it depends on the process you want to perform since I do not have a dependency graph available ;D. You will know that something is missing when a RuntimeException occurs ... beside: It is such a big deal to copy the libraries, too ?

[quote author=chris_ml]
and in addition the class "com.rapidminer.RapidMinerCommandLine" ?
[/quote]
This class is part of rapidminer.jar. It is part of the command to specify which main method shall be executed to start rapidminer...

I did some similar a few months ago, when my "terminal" was slow and a linux computer was available as test machine. I copied all the libraries, modified the starting script and it worked...there is nothing more annoying than to see how a weekend-long-process is crushing in the last steps because you forgot to add some libraries to the classpath >:( ... so why risk it ?

greetings,

Steffen

chris_ml

Hi,

It is such a big deal to copy the libraries, too ?

The lib directory has something more than 22 MB, I think that's OK. :-)

I did some similar a few months ago, when my "terminal" was slow and a linux computer was available as test machine. I copied all the libraries, modified the starting script and it worked...there is nothing more annoying than to see how a weekend-long-process is crushing in the last steps because you forgot to add some libraries to the classpath >:( ... so why risk it ?

OK, you convinced me. :-)

Just another question going into the same direction. When I run the GUI, I see in the bottom
bar the status of the currently running progress. This is very useful since it also indicates
that RapidMiner is still working. However, when I run RapidMiner in the batch mode, I
just see how RapidMiner was invoked but there is no real information about the current process.
Is there a possibility to indicate the state of progress in batch mode as well?

Regards,
Chris