Week 2: Coding Period

This week was about identifying and solving some bugs I had noticed during usage of the tool. I also started with the work template updation.

Collectstatic

Going by the goals set last week and the advice of Suhas the first thing I did was to research the collectstatic step in the install.

It turns out that before we run the server we must first run python3 manage.py collectstatic what this does is that it collects all the files in the staticfiles folder and builds the static folder. This step was missing from the install instructions on both the repo and the website. So I added it to both the places.

Multiple Blocks

Next was the issue where VisualCircuit built multiple blocks and gave them the same filename.

To solve this I went into the synthesis.py file in the backend. Here I added a counter that kept track of how many of each type of block existed. Accordingly it appended a number like 1, 2, 3 ... etc. to the end of the filename.

Template Updation

Most of the time this week however went into the template updation work. After moving to the new shared memory implementation (#151) the old templates of the blocks needed to be updated.

E.g. of updated template for the Dilation Block:

As you can see the new template is much simpler and easier to read. I majorly did all the OpenCV Blocks this week. They consist of about 60 - 65% of the blocks. The rest are to be done next week.

Issues

Relevant Issues raised this week were:

• Multiple Blocks have the same filename
• New template blocks OpenCV collection

  Pull Requests

  Relevant Pull Requests were:

• Update Backend Install Instructions
• Fix the naming to be unique for each block
• Update OpenCV Templates to the new Shared Memory Implementation

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