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Accept engines that require an interpreter #1023

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Type of pull request:

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Description:

Allow users to provide arguements before and after the engine name (e.g. when a user is running a jar file as a chess engine).
engine_options could be removed as after_name_parameters does the same thing but for a more general use case. On the other hand, engine_options is easier to use and some people may depend on it, so if we remove it, we should probably deprecate it first.

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closes #1022

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  • The changes pass all existing tests.

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MarkZH commented Sep 24, 2024

I don't think before_name_parameters and after_name_parameters are good names. The problem that this PR should solve is when a user's chess engine requires an interpreter to run. So, I think two engine subsections are needed:

engine:
  interpreter: java
  interpreter_options:
    - "-jar"

The other engine subsections (dir, name, engine_options) remain the same. The command within engine_wrapper.create_engine() is then built like this:

commands = []
if cfg.interpreter:
  commands.append(cfg.interpreter)
  commands.extend(cfg.interpreter_options or [])
commands.append(engine_path)
if cfg.engine_options:
  for k, v in cfg.engine_options.items():
    commands.append(f"--{k}={v}" if v is not None else f"--{k}")

I don't think there are any other cases besides interpreters for things going before the file containing the engine.

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MarkZH commented Sep 27, 2024

Good. Now all that's needed is to document this in the wiki.

I would also comment out interpreter_options: in config.yml.default.

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For some reason the test fails, while I can run buggy_engine.py normally as a bot.

@AttackingOrDefending AttackingOrDefending changed the title Accept parameters before and after the engine name Accept engines that require an interpreter Sep 28, 2024
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Enable Running engines which are runnable jar files
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