toml_live not updated upon changes

[lborcard]

Dear Readfish team,

I am testing your toml_live option but since the documentation does not cover exactly how to use it (to my knowledge) is there anything covering this topic?
I tried to create a toml file using my.toml_live and then modify it during a simulated run but to no avail. I could not see any trace of an update of the TOML file.

What did I do wrong?
best,

Loïc

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[mattloose]

Hi,

You create a toml as normal, but then during a run add a new toml with the same name but _live at the end.

This should work, but as you know it's not extnesively documented at present.

I'd run on a playback run first and test. You should see a message in the logs when the toml file is re-read.

[alexomics]

The live toml file should have the same name as the original with _live added at the end of the .toml extension. So:

exp.toml
exp.toml_live

Can you confirm that you have followed this naming scheme? Also, when reloading the TOML if the _live is not valid it is ignored, but readfish will attempt to reload each iteration.

[lborcard]

ok thank you very much ! now this toml can further modified and each modification will be noticed?

[mattloose]

Yes - as long as the toml file is valid it will be loaded on each iteration - but currently we don't check the validity and it's left to the user to make sure that the file is valid.

[lborcard]

alright perfect thank you very much!