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| Qlib Client-Server Framework |
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| Introduction |
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| Client-Server is designed to solve following problems |
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| - Manage the data in a centralized way. Users don't have to manage data of different versions. |
| - Reduce the amount of cache to be generated. |
| - Make the data can be accessed in a remote way. |
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| Therefore, we designed the client-server framework to solve these problems. |
| We will maintain a server and provide the data. |
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| You have to initialize you qlib with specific config for using the client-server framework. |
| Here is a typical initialization process. |
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| qlib ``init`` commonly used parameters; ``nfs-common`` must be installed on the server where the client is located, execute: ``sudo apt install nfs-common``: |
| - ``provider_uri``: nfs-server path; the format is ``host: data_dir``, for example: ``172.23.233.89:/data2/gaochao/sync_qlib/qlib``. If using offline, it can be a local data directory |
| - ``mount_path``: local data directory, ``provider_uri`` will be mounted to this directory |
| - ``auto_mount``: whether to automatically mount ``provider_uri`` to ``mount_path`` during qlib ``init``; You can also mount it manually: sudo mount.nfs ``provider_uri`` ``mount_path``. If on PAI, it is recommended to set ``auto_mount=True`` |
| - ``flask_server``: data service host; if you are on the intranet, you can use the default host: 172.23.233.89 |
| - ``flask_port``: data service port |
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| If running on 10.150.144.153 or 10.150.144.154 server, it's recommended to use the following code to ``init`` qlib: |
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| .. code-block:: python |
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| >>> import qlib |
| >>> qlib.init(auto_mount=False, mount_path='/data/csdesign/qlib') |
| >>> from qlib.data import D |
| >>> D.features(['SH600000'], ['$close'], start_time='20080101', end_time='20090101').head() |
| [39336:MainThread](2019-05-28 21:35:42,800) INFO - Initialization - [__init__.py:16] - default_conf: client. |
| [39336:MainThread](2019-05-28 21:35:42,801) INFO - Initialization - [__init__.py:54] - qlib successfully initialized based on client settings. |
| [39336:MainThread](2019-05-28 21:35:42,801) INFO - Initialization - [__init__.py:56] - provider_uri=172.23.233.89:/data2/gaochao/sync_qlib/qlib |
| [39336:Thread-68](2019-05-28 21:35:42,809) INFO - Client - [client.py:28] - Connect to server ws://172.23.233.89:9710 |
| [39336:Thread-72](2019-05-28 21:35:43,489) INFO - Client - [client.py:31] - Disconnect from server! |
| Opening /data/csdesign/qlib/cache/d239a3b191daa9a5b1b19a59beb47b33 in read-only mode |
| Out[5]: |
| $close |
| instrument datetime |
| SH600000 2008-01-02 119.079704 |
| 2008-01-03 113.120125 |
| 2008-01-04 117.878860 |
| 2008-01-07 124.505539 |
| 2008-01-08 125.395004 |
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| If running on PAI, it's recommended to use the following code to ``init`` qlib: |
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| .. code-block:: python |
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| >>> import qlib |
| >>> qlib.init(auto_mount=True, mount_path='/data/csdesign/qlib', provider_uri='172.23.233.89:/data2/gaochao/sync_qlib/qlib') |
| >>> from qlib.data import D |
| >>> D.features(['SH600000'], ['$close'], start_time='20080101', end_time='20090101').head() |
| [39336:MainThread](2019-05-28 21:35:42,800) INFO - Initialization - [__init__.py:16] - default_conf: client. |
| [39336:MainThread](2019-05-28 21:35:42,801) INFO - Initialization - [__init__.py:54] - qlib successfully initialized based on client settings. |
| [39336:MainThread](2019-05-28 21:35:42,801) INFO - Initialization - [__init__.py:56] - provider_uri=172.23.233.89:/data2/gaochao/sync_qlib/qlib |
| [39336:Thread-68](2019-05-28 21:35:42,809) INFO - Client - [client.py:28] - Connect to server ws://172.23.233.89:9710 |
| [39336:Thread-72](2019-05-28 21:35:43,489) INFO - Client - [client.py:31] - Disconnect from server! |
| Opening /data/csdesign/qlib/cache/d239a3b191daa9a5b1b19a59beb47b33 in read-only mode |
| Out[5]: |
| $close |
| instrument datetime |
| SH600000 2008-01-02 119.079704 |
| 2008-01-03 113.120125 |
| 2008-01-04 117.878860 |
| 2008-01-07 124.505539 |
| 2008-01-08 125.395004 |
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| If running on Windows, open **NFS** features and write correct **mount_path**, it's recommended to use the following code to ``init`` qlib: |
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| 1.windows System open NFS Features |
| * Open ``Programs and Features``. |
| * Click ``Turn Windows features on or off``. |
| * Scroll down and check the option ``Services for NFS``, then click OK |
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| Reference address: https://graspingtech.com/mount-nfs-share-windows-10/ |
| 2.config correct mount_path |
| * In windows, mount path must be not exist path and root path, |
| * correct format path eg: `H`, `i`... |
| * error format path eg: `C`, `C:/user/name`, `qlib_data`... |
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| .. code-block:: python |
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| >>> import qlib |
| >>> qlib.init(auto_mount=True, mount_path='H', provider_uri='172.23.233.89:/data2/gaochao/sync_qlib/qlib') |
| >>> from qlib.data import D |
| >>> D.features(['SH600000'], ['$close'], start_time='20080101', end_time='20090101').head() |
| [39336:MainThread](2019-05-28 21:35:42,800) INFO - Initialization - [__init__.py:16] - default_conf: client. |
| [39336:MainThread](2019-05-28 21:35:42,801) INFO - Initialization - [__init__.py:54] - qlib successfully initialized based on client settings. |
| [39336:MainThread](2019-05-28 21:35:42,801) INFO - Initialization - [__init__.py:56] - provider_uri=172.23.233.89:/data2/gaochao/sync_qlib/qlib |
| [39336:Thread-68](2019-05-28 21:35:42,809) INFO - Client - [client.py:28] - Connect to server ws://172.23.233.89:9710 |
| [39336:Thread-72](2019-05-28 21:35:43,489) INFO - Client - [client.py:31] - Disconnect from server! |
| Opening /data/csdesign/qlib/cache/d239a3b191daa9a5b1b19a59beb47b33 in read-only mode |
| Out[5]: |
| $close |
| instrument datetime |
| SH600000 2008-01-02 119.079704 |
| 2008-01-03 113.120125 |
| 2008-01-04 117.878860 |
| 2008-01-07 124.505539 |
| 2008-01-08 125.395004 |
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| The client will mount the data in `provider_uri` on `mount_path`. Then the server and client will communicate with flask and transporting data with this NFS. |
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| If you have a local qlib data files and want to use the qlib data offline instead of online with client server framework. |
| It is also possible with specific config. |
| You can created such a config. `client_config_local.yml` |
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| .. code-block:: YAML |
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| provider_uri: /data/csdesign/qlib |
| calendar_provider: 'LocalCalendarProvider' |
| instrument_provider: 'LocalInstrumentProvider' |
| feature_provider: 'LocalFeatureProvider' |
| expression_provider: 'LocalExpressionProvider' |
| dataset_provider: 'LocalDatasetProvider' |
| provider: 'LocalProvider' |
| dataset_cache: 'SimpleDatasetCache' |
| local_cache_path: '~/.cache/qlib/' |
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| `provider_uri` is the directory of your local data. |
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| .. code-block:: python |
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| >>> import qlib |
| >>> qlib.init_from_yaml_conf('client_config_local.yml') |
| >>> from qlib.data import D |
| >>> D.features(['SH600001'], ['$close'], start_time='20180101', end_time='20190101').head() |
| 21232:MainThread](2019-05-29 10:16:05,066) INFO - Initialization - [__init__.py:16] - default_conf: client. |
| [21232:MainThread](2019-05-29 10:16:05,066) INFO - Initialization - [__init__.py:54] - qlib successfully initialized based on client settings. |
| [21232:MainThread](2019-05-29 10:16:05,067) INFO - Initialization - [__init__.py:56] - provider_uri=/data/csdesign/qlib |
| Out[9]: |
| $close |
| instrument datetime |
| SH600001 2008-01-02 21.082111 |
| 2008-01-03 23.195362 |
| 2008-01-04 23.874615 |
| 2008-01-07 24.880930 |
| 2008-01-08 24.277143 |
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| Limitations |
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| 1. The following API under the client-server module may not be as fast as the older off-line API. |
| - Cal.calendar |
| - Inst.list_instruments |
| 2. The rolling operation expression with parameter `0` can not be updated rightly under mechanism of the client-server framework. |
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| API |
| *** |
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| The client is based on `python-socketio <https://python-socketio.readthedocs.io>`_ which is a framework that supports WebSocket client for Python language. The client can only propose requests and receive results, which do not include any calculating procedure. |
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| Class |
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| .. automodule:: qlib.data.client |
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