How to Add Your Properties

If you have a new property to use in WorkflowSim and would like to configure it in the configuration file, below we show the steps:

1. Assume we would like to add a deadline of a workflow and it's a long variable. In org.workflowsim.utils.Parameters.java, we add:

   private static long deadline;

   public static void init(..., long dl) {

    ... //other parameters
   
    deadline = dl;
   

   }

   public static long getDeadline(){

    return deadline;
   

   } ... Because Parameters is a static object and in this way we can access deadline in any place.

2. Add parsing in org.workflowsim.utils.ArgumentParser.java

   public ArgumentParser(String[] args) {

    long deadline = 0;
   
    if ...//other parameter parsing
   
    else if (key.equals("deadline")) {
   
            deadline = Long.parseLong(value);
   
    } 
   
    Parameters.init(..., deadline);
   

   }

This means we set the deadline of Parameters while we parsing a config file

3.Add deadline in config.txt

Just add in your config.txt

 deadline = 10000

4. Then you can get deadline in your scheduler, i.e. in RandomPlanner.java

   long deadline = Parameters.getDeadline();