PipelineParameterArgs

Parameters facilitate setting and delivering data into the pipeline's execution environment. They are defined at create time, with optional defaults, and can be overridden at run time. If localCopy is unset, then the parameter specifies a string that is passed as-is into the pipeline, as the value of the environment variable with the given name. A default value can be optionally specified at create time. The default can be overridden at run time using the inputs map. If no default is given, a value must be supplied at runtime. If localCopy is defined, then the parameter specifies a data source or sink, both in Google Cloud Storage and on the Docker container where the pipeline computation is run. The service account associated with the Pipeline (by default the project's Compute Engine service account) must have access to the Google Cloud Storage paths. At run time, the Google Cloud Storage paths can be overridden if a default was provided at create time, or must be set otherwise. The pipeline runner should add a key/value pair to either the inputs or outputs map. The indicated data copies will be carried out before/after pipeline execution, just as if the corresponding arguments were provided to gsutil cp. For example: Given the following PipelineParameter, specified in the inputParameters list: `` {name: "input_file", localCopy: {path: "file.txt", disk: "pd1"}} `` where disk is defined in the PipelineResources object as: `` {name: "pd1", mountPoint: "/mnt/disk/"} `` We create a disk named pd1, mount it on the host VM, and map /mnt/pd1 to /mnt/disk in the docker container. At runtime, an entry for input_file would be required in the inputs map, such as: `` inputs["input_file"] = "gs://my-bucket/bar.txt" `` This would generate the following gsutil call: `` gsutil cp gs://my-bucket/bar.txt /mnt/pd1/file.txt `` The file /mnt/pd1/file.txt maps to /mnt/disk/file.txt in the Docker container. Acceptable paths are: Google Cloud storage pathLocal path file file glob directory For outputs, the direction of the copy is reversed: `` gsutil cp /mnt/disk/file.txt gs://my-bucket/bar.txt `` Acceptable paths are: Local pathGoogle Cloud Storage path file file file directory - directory must already exist glob directory - directory will be created if it doesn't exist One restriction due to docker limitations, is that for outputs that are found on the boot disk, the local path cannot be a glob and must be a file. @property defaultValue The default value for this parameter. Can be overridden at runtime. If localCopy is present, then this must be a Google Cloud Storage path beginning with gs://. @property description Human-readable description. @property localCopy If present, this parameter is marked for copying to and from the VM. LocalCopy indicates where on the VM the file should be. The value given to this parameter (either at runtime or using defaultValue) must be the remote path where the file should be. @property name Name of the parameter - the pipeline runner uses this string as the key to the input and output maps in RunPipeline.