New Project

src.cmd.new.new_project(cmd)

Creates a new project.

@param args: The command line parameters.

As listed under cchrrrd.py new_project -h the following command line parameters are accepted by new_project.

name: The name of the project.

project_dir: The path to the top level directory for the BJSConvert output.

in_dir: The path to the directory containing the NLETS raw bar delimited

segment files and the spss sample file (required).

meta_dir: The path to the directory containing the project metadata files.

Default: root_dir/bjs_rules/metadata.

rule_dir: The path to the directory containing the project rules.

Default: root_dir/bjs_rules/rules.

follow_period: The number of years after the date of release arrest

to include in the recidivism database and flat files.

threads: The number of threads to use when running the recidivism

transform phase. Default: 50

cores: The number of cores the system has available to use. Default: 4

verbose: A debug option to set debug logging to verbose. Default: False

host: Name of database host to connect to. Default: localhost.

port: TCP port of MySQL server. Default: standard port (3306).

db_stand_name: Name of standardized database. Default: project name

db_stand_user: The user to authenticate as. Default: root.

db_stand_pass: The password to authenticate with. Default: pass.

db_recid_name: Name of recidivism database. Default: **project name**_recid

db_recid_user: The user to authenticate as. Default: root.

db_recid_pass: The password to authenticate with. Default: pass.