PyRunner

PyRunner is a tool to run Python code from Java. The PyRunner takes a ready-to-use python tar.gz file that was generated using the setuptool in python. This file contains all dependencies. The PyRunner then creates a virtual environment, and installs your tar.gz file and all dependencies in the virtual environment.

At this moment PyRunner is compatible with python 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10.

Preparing Python

This is a tool to run python code from Java. The tool requires FULL python to be installed, including pip and venv.

Some python installations require manual post-installation of these. To do this you need something like

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo apt install python3.<VERSION>-venv

where <VERSION> is 8,9 etc depending on your python version.

To check whether your python is ready for use, run this command

python -m venv venv

If you get any errors, check the error and do further installations. Unfortunately this seems the python way of getting a working installation.

Usage

The PythonVenv usage is roughly like this:

• create a PythonVenv E, possibly already with the targz code you want to run. You can use the usual python3 setup.py sdist, or another mechanism such as the java2python compiler.
  • Pass your targz directly into the PythonVenv constructor
  • or if you dont have a targz, copy the code into E.
• call the code you want to run eg from PythonVenvTest.java:

   PythonVenv env = new PythonVenv(
  	new File("src/test/resources/helloworld-1.0.0.tar.gz"), logger);
   String res = env.call(Arrays.asList("-c","import helloworld; helloworld.helloworld()"), 40000);
  

• call E.remove to remove the venv

The PythonVenv will run completely in its own venv. The zip file is installed with pip and thus respects all the setup including pip installing dependencies (which may be downloaded from the web).

Running python unit tests

PythonVenv also has support to run unit tests with discovery. Your java code is assumed to have ...Test.java files that are compiled into your zip file, If you use java2python, you can keep the src and test java code separate and use something like

		PyProgram tests = PyProgram.fromDirectories(Arrays.asList(src, test));

The src and test dir can have overlapping modules as usual in java (eg, you have geniuswebsrc/issuevalue/Bid.java and a matching geniuswebtest/issuevalue/BidTest.java. This results in the tests in the same directory in the compiled code, while being separate in the sources. Having it all in a single zip file allows for all dependencies, both for the code and for the testing, to be installed in one go.

Then you run the test using

PythonVenv py = new PythonVenv(tests.getZip(), logger);
TestResult res = py.test("geniusweb", 60000);

When using a zipped python resource you can not use python unittest directly (using python -m unittest discover) because the pip install procedure will remove all the __init__.py files that are essential for discover.