Message flow

message_flow() function shows how input messages are received to nodes and output messages are transmitted to next nodes. You can confirm bottleneck of response in your application.

from caret_analyze.plot import message_flow
from caret_analyze import Application, Architecture, Lttng
from bokeh.plotting import output_notebook, figure, show
output_notebook()

arch = Architecture('yaml', '/path/to/architecture_file')
lttng = Lttng('/path/to/trace_data')
app = Application(arch, lttng)
path = app.get_path('target_path')

message_flow(path, granularity='node', lstrip_s=1, rstrip_s=1)

The horizontal axis means time, labeled as Time [s]. The vertical axis lists names of nodes and topics in a target path. A colored line is corresponded to an input message and represents its propagation. With tracing a colored line, you can find when a message input is processed in a certain node. Gray rectangles indicate callback executions.

message_flow() function has following arguments.

• granularity is served to adjusts granularity of chain with two value; raw and node
  • With raw, callback-level message flow is generated
  • With node, node-level message flow is generated
• lstrip_s is float value for selecting start time of cropping time range
• rstrip_s is float value for selecting end time of cropping time range
• use_sim_time is boolean value for mapping simulation time on a horizontal axis

Message flow diagram let you operate as follows.

• Scrolling upper or lower on x-axis for scaling up or down on horizontal direction
• Scrolling upper or lower on y-axis for scaling up or down on vertical direction
• Scrolling upper of lower on a graph for scaling up or down on both horizontal and vertical direction
• Hovering over a line in message flow or a gray rectangle give you details