Updates 2017/04/21

With Easter out of the way, it is time for an update. A lot of incremental improvements as always, but noteworthy are the added associator support in the flow and Investigator, additional paintlets allowing for more sophisticated plots, and websocket support.

Fixes

  • Debugged flows that open another tab with the fully expanded flow (e.g., when using external actors) now show their variables correctly in the tree.

  • adams-weka: The ByNumericValue row finder no longer skips non-missing values.

Changes

  • DOMToString conversion now allows specification of number of spaces for indentation.

  • JDBC URLs are now supported via Favorites in the GenericObjectEditor, e.g., used in the DatabaseConnection standalone actor (JdbcUrl type). The same applies to BaseURL, BaseURI, BaseHostname, EmailAddress ByteFormatString, DateFormatString and DecimalFormatString types.

  • The SetVariable standalone can initialize the specified variable now from an environment variable. Useful when overriding flow defaults when running a flow from a script.

  • When starting a flow, two boolean variables now get automatically added regarding the headless state of the execution: is_headless, has_gui

  • Rendering spreadsheets when debugging a flow now offers a search box as well.

  • adams-latex: Code generators now list in their help what packages they require.

  • adams-meka: upgraded to MEKA 1.9.1.

  • adams-ml: added ability to the ActualVsPredictedPlot sink to use meta-data color schemes for coloring in the data points based on meta-data.

  • adams-net:

    • Upgraded jsoup dependency to 1.10.2

    • The HttpRequest source now allows specification of request headers.

  • adams-spreadsheet: The SpreadSheetSetCell and SpreadSheetSetHeaderCell transformers now forward the sheet/row even if the columns/rows were not found, to avoid accidental stopping of processing of data.

  • adams-webservice:

    • The XML logging interceptors (in/out) now support pretty-printed XML and optional output to a log file.

    • Interceptor generators for SOAP messages now have an enabled flag to easily turn them on/off without having to replace them.

Additions

  • Added PrettyPrintXML conversion to make pretty-printing of XML easier (combines XMLToDOM and DOMToString).

  • Introduced the MetaDataColorPaintlet interface for paintlets (e.g., use in the SequencePlotter or SimplePlot sinks) that can extract the color to plot a sequence point in from its meta-data.

  • Added meta-paintlet ByNamePaintlet that only applies its base-paintlet if the ID of the sequence matches the specified regular expression.

  • Added meta-paintlet for drawing error data only if ID matches supplied regular expression: ByNameErrorPaintlet.

  • Enabled attaching of breakpoint to the selected actor while the flow is running using the Attach here... sub-menuitem of the Breakpoint menu in the Flow editor.

  • Added support for callable database connections with the CallableDatabaseConnection standalone. This standalone simply references an actual DatabaseConnection which is listed below a CallableActors actor. This allows the centralization of database connections in a flow and then simply referencing them where needed.

  • The ListCallableActors source actor outputs all the callable actors available within this particular scope. Useful when iterating over predefined setups (eg Weka classifiers).

  • The UpdateCallableDisplay control actor forces a refresh of the specified callable display actor whenever a token passes through.

  • adams-latex:

    • The ListRequiredLatexPackages flow processor outputs all the required packages found in a flow.

    • Added the MiniPage code generator.

  • adams-net:

    • Added the HttpRequest transformer which uploads the incoming string payload.

    • Added basic websocket support with WebSocketServer standalone and WebSocketClient sink actors.

  • adams-rats:

    • Added Rat output for websockets called WebsocketOutput.

    • Added a post-processing framework for webservice responses to the Webservice rat output. Allows handling of, e.g., error messages returned by the other end of the webservice.

  • adams-spreadsheet:

    • The ByNumericRange row finder uses array of BaseInterval ranges, i.e., using mathematical intervals like [-1.0;3.5).

    • Added row finder for finding a row that comes closest to a supplied value: ClosestNumericValue.

  • adams-weka:

    • Added the WekaBootstrapping transformer which performs bootstrapping on incoming Evaluation objects/containers and outputs a spreadsheet with each row representing the statistics collected from a subsample run.

    • The ClassifierErrors output if the Weka Investigator Classify tab now allows you to color in the data points using meta-data in conjunction with a meta-data-color scheme.

    • The ByNumericRange row finder uses array of BaseInterval ranges, i.e., using mathematical intervals like [-1.0;3.5).

    • Added basic associations support: WekaAssociatorSetup source and WekaTrainAssociator transformer.

    • Added new pluggable metric for regression: Bias (mean(predicted) - mean(actual)), R^2 ("r squared") for convenience.

    • Added the ability to perform train/validate/test evaluation to the classify tab of the Weka Investigator. The validation output gets inserted as separate history entry.

    • Added a dedicated Associate tab to Weka Investigator for building associators like Apriori.

Have a good weekend!

Cheers, Peter