Unable to change parameter names in custom parser

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Richard Mann

July 18, 2018 08:04

Hi,

I am developing a parser for the Australian weather service www.willyweather.com.au.

I have the parser working quite well in Pycharm and need to get it working better on RainMachine.

The problem I have is that as I upload new versions to RainMachine, the internal params are not being reflected in the UI and I get errors for missing variables.

Specifically:

params = {

    "apiKey": None,

    "stationID": None,

    "_nearbyStationsIDList": []

}

But the UI says locationID instead of stationID (I could not get any data to save for locationID so I tried changing the name).

Now I cannot get the UI to remove locationID and replace it with stationID when I upload the latest version so I can't test if this change works or not. I have tried disabling/enabling, rebooting, deleting and re-adding but to no avail.

Funnily, apiKey worked fine from the start, so I cannot explain why locationID failed.

Cheers

(P.S. I also have the problem where my parser is "deleted" following a reboot of the HD-12)

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  Richard Mann July 18, 2018 08:07

  And you are welcome to look at the code. It's a pretty simple API that works really well with RainMachine because it can search for weather stations based on lat/long.

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  RainMachine Nicholas July 18, 2018 08:34

  The params are saved into DB, if you run directly on RainMachine the easiest way to fix would be to press DEFAULTS in web ui to remove them (you'll probably need a defaultParams = {} defined in your parser under your params = {} )

  As for the disappearing after reboot, I'm not sure why. I checked and the parsers that I uploaded seems fine. If you give me a URL to your code I can take a look.

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  Richard Mann July 18, 2018 08:58

  Thanks,

  The defaultParams have enabled the stationID in the UI but...

  I just cannot get it to save any data for stationID and therefore run the remaining main parser code.

  No idea what to do from here.

  It just makes not sense when apiKey works fine.

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  RainMachine Nicholas July 18, 2018 10:02

  I think something got stuck in the DB and Defaults doesn't work. One way to deal with this would be to rename parser file name and also the class name.  Another option would be to edit the /rainmachine-app/DB/Default/rainmachine-parser.sqlite and remove the parser from it or use Reset To Defaults (and restore from backup afterwards).

   

   

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  Richard Mann July 18, 2018 10:37

  Thanks.

  So I set a default value for stationID and bingo! It worked.

  All the data populated and RainMachine has a new parser!

  Thanks for your help.

  Still need to solve the "deleting on reboot" problem.

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  Richard Mann July 18, 2018 12:56

  One more question for importing data.

  Do you set the timestamp in local time or UTC? This is not clear in the examples.

  It looks like my data may not be in my time zone.

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  RainMachine Nicholas July 23, 2018 07:03

  Should be in UTC, for example in NOAA parser we forcefully set to UTC.

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