Developer Documentation

Source Code Repo Layout

  • src/libs/
  • conduit/ - Main Conduit library source
  • relay/ - Relay libraries source
  • blueprint/ - Blueprint library source
  • src/tests/
  • conduit/ - Unit tests for the main Conduit library
  • relay/ - Unit tests for Conduit Relay libraries
  • blueprint/ - Unit tests for Blueprint library
  • thirdparty/ - Unit tests for third party libraries
  • src/examples/ - Basic examples related to building and using Conduit
  • src/docs/ - Documentation
  • src/thirdparty_builtin/ - Third party libraries we build and manage directly

Build System Info

Configuring with CMake

See Building in the User Documentation.

Important CMake Targets

  • make: Builds Conduit.
  • make test: Runs unit tests.
  • make docs: Builds sphinx and doxygen documentation.
  • make install: Installs conduit libraries, headers, and documentation to CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX

Adding a Unit Test

  • Create a test source file in src/tests/{lib_name}/
  • All test source files should have a t_ prefix on their file name to make them easy to identify.
  • Add the test to build system by editing src/tests/{lib_name}/CMakeLists.txt

Running Unit Tests via Valgrind

We can use ctest’s built-in valgrind support to check for memory leaks in unit tests. Assuming valgrind is automatically detected when you run CMake to configure conduit, you can check for leaks by running:

ctest -D ExperimentalBuild
ctest -D ExperimentalMemCheck

The build system is setup to use src/cmake/valgrind.supp to filter memcheck results. We don’t yet have all spurious issues suppressed, expect to see leaks reported for python and mpi tests.

BLT

Conduit’s CMake-based build system uses BLT (https://github.com/llnl/blt).

Git Development Workflow

Conduit’s primary source repository and issue tracker are hosted on github:

https://github.com/llnl/conduit

We are using a Github Flow model, which is a simpler variant of the confusingly similar sounding Git Flow model.

Here are the basics:

  • Development is done on topic branches off the develop.
  • Merge to develop is only done via a pull request.
  • The develop should always compile and pass all tests.
  • Releases are tagged off of develop.

More details on GitHub Flow:

https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/index.html

Here are some other rules to abide by:

  • If you have write permissions for the Conduit repo, you can merge your own pull requests.
  • After completing all intended work on branch, please delete the remote branch after merging to develop. (Github has an option to do this after you merge a pull request.)