Process object — Process • openeo

This object reflects a process offered by an openEO service in order to load and manipulate data collections. It will be created with the information of a received JSON object for a single process, after the arguments of the process have been translated into Argument() objects.

Value

Object of R6Class() with methods for storing meta data of back-end processes and user assigned data

Fields

parameters

a named list of Argument objects

isUserDefined

logical - depending if the process is offered by the openEO service or if it was user defined

Methods

$new(id,parameters,description=character(), summary = character(), parameter_order=character(),returns)
$getId(): returns the id of a process which was defined on the back-end
$getParameters(): returns a named list of arguments
$getReturns(): returns the schema for the return type as list
$getFormals(): returns the function formals for this process - usually a named vector of the specified default values, but NA where no default value was specified
$setId(id): sets the id of a process
$setSummary(summary): sets the summary text
$setDescription(description): sets the description text
$getParameter(name): returns the Argument object with the provided name
$getProcessGraph(): returns the ProcessGraph to which this Process belongs
$setProcessGraph(process_graph): sets the ProcessGraph to which this Process belongs
$validate(): validates the processes argument values
$serialize(): serializes the process - mainly used as primary serialization for a ProcessNode()
$getCharacteristics(): select all non functions of the private area, to be used when copying process information into a process node

Arguments

id: process id from the back-end
parameters: a list of Argument objects
description: the process description
summary: the summary of a process
returns: the returns part of the process definition or an already evaluated parameter
name: a parameter name
value: the value for a parameter or the description text