Scenario runners for SVL Simulator

The scenario runners provide environments for running RandomTraffic, PythonApi or Visual Scenario Editor (VSE) scripts with the SVL Simulator.

Requirements

• Linux operating system
• Docker
• SVL Simulator

Building and running in developer mode

Here and below the VSE runner is used as an example. To run in developer mode follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository
2. Run

   $ make -f Makefile.vse build
   

   (or ... -f Makefile.python-api ..., ... -f Makefile.random-traffic ... respectively) to build the development docker image of the desired runner
3. Run

   $ make -f Makefile.vse devenv
   

   to start the corresponding docker image
4. Start the SVL simulator, create and start an API Only simulation.
5. Run a scenario using the run command:

   $ run PATH_TO_SCENARIO_JSON_FILE
   

   Notes:
   • the PythonAPI runner expects a path to a python API script as an argument
   • the RandomTraffic runner does not take any arguments

Building with arbritary Python versions

To build a local/vse_runner_base image with a different version of Python from the default, run:

    $ make -f Makefile.vse PYTHON_VERSION_TAG=<VERSION> build-base

(the same for the random-traffic and python-api runners)

The image will be tagged with vse-<VERSION> insted of latest.

The local/vse_runner_devenv image would not be affected by this setting.

Upgrading dependencies

The versions of the dependencies are pinned by the requirements[-<PYTHON_VERSION_TAG>].txt files. Whenever dependencies are changed, update them by running:

    $ make -f Makefile.vse [PYTHON_VERSION_TAG=<VERSION>] upgrade-base-dependencies

for each of the values of PYTHON_VERSION_TAG being used.

Other build targets

Run

$ make -f Makefile.vse shell

to access the command shell inside the container

Run

$ make -f Makefile.vse env

to see the default environment variables of the container (the same for the random-traffic and python-api runners).

Tagging releases

The final change for a new release must be to set the argument of the get_version('<VERSION>') call in vse-runner/setup.py to the new version. Then commit this change and tag it with the new version:

git tag -a -m <VERSION> <VERSION>