Script advances before previous commands are complete

[rploconnor]

I have some commands like the following in my code:

session.tui.solver.report.simulation_reports.generate_simulation_report('SimRep2')
session.tui.solver.display.save_picture(image + ".jpg")

I'm finding that the program advances to the next lines even before these lines are complete, resulting in errors when subsequent lines require the output of these lines. I am resorting to including sleep commands in my code to avoid this issue. Is there a better workaround? Should the code be waiting for a signal from Fluent that the execution is complete before progressing to the next line?

Thanks

[mkundu1]

This is due to the asynchronous execution of TUI commands. The first line returns a Future object which can be synchronized by calling its result() method.

session.tui.solver.report.simulation_reports.generate_simulation_report('SimRep2').result()
session.tui.solver.display.save_picture(image + ".jpg")

We shall be removing the asynchronous decorator over the TUI commands. User will manually use the asynchronous wrapper to make any call asynchronous.

[seanpearsonuk]

Thanks for posting this @rploconnor. This is a great example of why the current changes are needed.