Support view/resume experiment from external folder

docs/en_US/Tutorial/Nnictl.rst

@@ -166,6 +166,10 @@ nnictl resume
      - False
      - 
      - set foreground mode, print log content to terminal
+   * - --experiment_dir, -e
+     - False
+     - 
+     - Resume experiment from external folder, specify the full path of experiment folder
 
 
 
@@ -218,6 +222,10 @@ nnictl view
      - False
      - 
      - Rest port of the experiment you want to view
+   * - --experiment_dir, -e
+     - False
+     - 
+     - View experiment from external folder, specify the full path of experiment folder
 
 
 

nni/tools/nnictl/launcher.py

@@ -538,7 +538,9 @@ def manage_stopped_experiment(args, mode):
     #find the latest stopped experiment
     if not args.id:
         print_error('Please set experiment id! \nYou could use \'nnictl {0} id\' to {0} a stopped experiment!\n' \
-        'You could use \'nnictl experiment list --all\' to show all experiments!'.format(mode))
+        'You could use \'nnictl experiment list --all\' to show all experiments!\n' \
+        'If your experiment is not started in current machine, you could specify experiment folder using ' \
+        '--experiment_dir argument'.format(mode))
         exit(1)
     else:
         if experiments_dict.get(args.id) is None:
@@ -569,8 +571,48 @@ def manage_stopped_experiment(args, mode):
 
 def view_experiment(args):
     '''view a stopped experiment'''
-    manage_stopped_experiment(args, 'view')
+    if args.experiment_dir:
+        manage_external_experiment(args, 'view')
+    else:
+        manage_stopped_experiment(args, 'view')
 
 def resume_experiment(args):
     '''resume an experiment'''
-    manage_stopped_experiment(args, 'resume')
+    '''view a stopped experiment'''
+    if args.experiment_dir:
+        manage_external_experiment(args, 'resume')
+    else:
+        manage_stopped_experiment(args, 'resume')
+
+def manage_external_experiment(args, mode):
+    '''view a experiment from external path'''
+    # validate arguments
+    if not os.path.exists(args.experiment_dir):
+        print_error('Folder %s does not exist!' % args.experiment_dir)
+        exit(1)
+    if not os.path.isdir(args.experiment_dir):
+        print_error('Path %s is not folder directory!' % args.experiment_dir)
+        exit(1)
+    if args.id:
+        experiment_id = args.id
+        log_dir = args.experiment_dir
+    else:
+        print_normal('NNI can not detect experiment id in argument, will use last folder name as experiment id in experiment_dir argument.')
+        experiment_id = os.path.basename(args.experiment_dir)
+        log_dir = os.path.dirname(args.experiment_dir)
+        if not experiment_id:
+            print_error("Please set experiment id argument, or add id as the last folder name in experiment_dir argument.")
+            exit(1)
+    args.url_prefix = None
+    experiment_config = Config(experiment_id, log_dir).get_config()
+    assert 'trainingService' in experiment_config or 'trainingServicePlatform' in experiment_config
+    try:
+        if 'trainingServicePlatform' in experiment_config:
+            experiment_config['logDir'] = log_dir
+            launch_experiment(args, experiment_config, mode, experiment_id, 1)
+        else:
+            experiment_config['experimentWorkingDirectory'] = log_dir
+            launch_experiment(args, experiment_config, mode, experiment_id, 2)
+    except Exception as exception:
+        print_error(exception)
+        exit(1)

nni/tools/nnictl/nnictl.py

@@ -66,12 +66,16 @@ def parse_args():
     parser_resume.add_argument('--port', '-p', default=DEFAULT_REST_PORT, dest='port', type=int, help='the port of restful server')
     parser_resume.add_argument('--debug', '-d', action='store_true', help=' set debug mode')
     parser_resume.add_argument('--foreground', '-f', action='store_true', help=' set foreground mode, print log content to terminal')
+    parser_resume.add_argument('--experiment_dir', '-e', help='resume experiment from external folder, specify the full path of ' \
+                               'experiment folder')
     parser_resume.set_defaults(func=resume_experiment)
 
     # parse view command
     parser_view = subparsers.add_parser('view', help='view a stopped experiment')
     parser_view.add_argument('id', nargs='?', help='The id of the experiment you want to view')
     parser_view.add_argument('--port', '-p', default=DEFAULT_REST_PORT, dest='port', type=int, help='the port of restful server')
+    parser_view.add_argument('--experiment_dir', '-e', help='view experiment from external folder, specify the full path of ' \
+                             'experiment folder')
     parser_view.set_defaults(func=view_experiment)
 
     # parse update command

nni/tools/nnictl/nnictl_utils.py

@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ def experiment_clean(args):
     for experiment_id in experiment_id_list:
         experiment_id = get_config_filename(args)
         experiment_config = Config(experiment_id, Experiments().get_all_experiments()[experiment_id]['logDir']).get_config()
-        platform = experiment_config.get('trainingServicePlatform')
+        platform = experiment_config.get('trainingServicePlatform') or experiment_config.get('trainingService', {}).get('platform')
         if platform == 'remote':
             machine_list = experiment_config.get('machineList')
             remote_clean(machine_list, experiment_id)