Register rdas client in jcb. Bug fix for running on HPC (hera).

[delippi]

This PR registers the RDAS client in JCB, enabling support for RDAS workflows. In addition, it includes a bug fix needed to ensure successful runs on Hera. These updates are part of the ongoing effort to move RDAS under JCB.

[CoryMartin-NOAA]

Any particular reason why this had to be changed? write_message is used in other places

[delippi]

It would hang with write_message (on Hera). Switching to print would allow it to continue. I don't fully understand what the problem was. I can look into it more.

[CoryMartin-NOAA]

don't spend too much time on it but if it's a python version issue or something that we can easily explain that would be helpful

[delippi]

Oh, I figured it out. I didn't notice there was a max_line_length. My path to where jcb_client_init.py is cloning the jcb clients is too long and the logic would end up doing an infinite loop. I could double max_line_length (to 200) and/or add some logic to force split the lines up in the case where 200 wouldn't be enough and would again cause an infinite loop (safer). What would you prefer?

[CoryMartin-NOAA]

The latter if it is not too difficult, the former if it needs to be something quick and easy

[delippi]

@CoryMartin-NOAA any idea why unit test 3.13 is failing? Is it because I'm trying to merge a branch from my fork?

[CoryMartin-NOAA]

@delippi yeah that's my guess. I wouldn't worry, I can bypass the CI and can hotfix if necessary

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR registers the RDAS client in JCB and fixes a bug in the message formatting function that could cause infinite loops when handling long words without spaces.

• Adds RDAS client configuration to enable RDAS workflow support in JCB
• Fixes infinite loop bug in write_message function when processing words longer than 100 characters

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

File	Description
jcb_clients.yaml	Adds RDAS client registration with repository and branch configuration
jcb_client_init.py	Fixes infinite loop bug in message line-breaking logic for long words

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[CoryMartin-NOAA]

@delippi take a look at the actions, it looks like the failure was real after all, I think there's an expected template missing for RDAS? I didn't look closely

[delippi]

@CoryMartin-NOAA, it is failing at a different step than it was earlier. I don't think it ran this step before because it was first failing to checkout the code. I think it is because jcb-rdas doesn't have an algorithm/ directory. I'm confused why there are algorithms under jcb-gdas and not just use jcb-algorithms?

[CoryMartin-NOAA]

@delippi for application specific code, like if you had an OOPS application that did some sort of LBC/halo processing that only applied to the regional system, the template would live here

[delippi]

@CoryMartin-NOAA how do I manually run the ctests on hera to debug this? I think I have a simple fix to at least not have the ctests failing. Still lots of work to do to get this running for rdas.

[CoryMartin-NOAA]

@delippi I think you install jcb into your virtual environment and then run pytest? See:

jcb/.github/workflows/basic_testing.yaml

Lines 68 to 79 in ebd10ea

	- name: Install the code
	run: |
	cd $GITHUB_WORKSPACE
	pip install pyyaml
	git branch
	./jcb_client_init.py
	pip install .[testing]
	- name: Run unit tests
	run: |
	cd $GITHUB_WORKSPACE
	pytest -v