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# xpressinsight.AppInterface.get_scenario_data

Purpose

Loads the entities described in annotations on the given class, from the given scenario, into an instance of the given class.

When fetching data from another scenario or app, you will supply a class that has type attributes annotated using the xpressinsight.data. or xpressinsight.types. helper functions, and is decorated using the ScenarioData or AppConfig decorator. It's recommended to use ScenarioData unless the class is the application class for the app being read from, as AppConfig will perform additional validation that is only relevent for application definitions.

Synopsis
`xpressinsight.AppInterface.get_scenario_data(self, scenario_path_or_id: str, scenario_data_class: Type[~SCENARIO_DATA_CONTAINER], *, fetch_individual_series=False) -> ~SCENARIO_DATA_CONTAINER`
Arguments

scenario_path_or_id | The path or ID of the scenario from which you want to read.
scenario_data_class | A class declared with the ScenarioData or AppConfig decorator.
fetch_individual_series | Configures method by which DataFrame entities are fetched from the Insight repository; when True, they are fetched as an entire frame; when False they are fetched as individual series and then combined into a DataFrame within the Python runtime. The default ( True) is more efficient at the expense of using more memory in the Insight worker for some scenarios; try setting to False if you encounter memory errors in the worker when requesting a large data frame.

Return value

An instance of the supplied class, with the annotated fields populated with data fetched from the scenario.

This function may raise the following errors:

ScenarioNotFoundError

  If the requested scenario is not found.

InvalidEntitiesError

  If the annotations in the entity container class do not match the schema of the source scenario.

InterfaceError

  If there is some other error reading the data from the Insight worker.

Example
Read some entities from scenario /MyApp/MyFolder/MyScenario:

    >>> @xi.ScenarioData()
    ... class EntitiesToRead:
    ...     my_integer: xi.data.Scalar(dtype=xi.integer)
    ...     my_string: xi.data.Scalar()
    ...     my_set: xi.data.Index()
    ...     my_array: xi.data.Series()
    ...     my_table: xi.data.DataFrame(
    ...         columns=[
    ...             xi.data.Column('my_first_column', dtype=xi.real),
    ...             xi.data.Column('my_second_column')])
    ...
    ... my_data = self.insight.get_scenario_data('/MyApp/MyFolder/MyScenario',
    ...                                          EntitiesToRead)
    ... print(f"the integer scalar I read is {my_data.my_integer}")

Further information
The method get_scenario_data is part of the class xpressinsight.AppInterface.
Related topics
AppInterface.set_scenario_test_data
Parent Topic App Interface Classes

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