Empty experiments are not listed properly

[albanD]

Empty (with no point) experiments are not listed in the GET /data endpoint properly here. Even though it properly raises an error when trying to create a new one with the same name and opening it works as expected.

[edran]

I'll do this when I refactor the server post-ICML.

[jtoy]

I think this is the same issue I am, having, to make things more concrete, you can see the issue I have here: I get this error: ValueError: Something went wrong. Server sent: 'scalev7' experiment already exists. `

cc = CrayonClient(hostname="localhost")
print(cc.get_experiment_names())
if args.name in cc.get_experiment_names():
    cc.remove_experiment(args.name)
cc_server = cc.create_experiment(args.name)`

here is the output of get_experiment_names: ['scalev3', 'scalev5', 'scalev4']

[ytian81]

Come across the same bug. It seems that cc.get_experiment_names and cc.remove_all_experiments don't function well.

[jtoy]

And those are the main functions of this library!

On Jun 21, 2017, at 6:57 PM, Yang Tian [email protected] wrote:

Come across the same bug. It seems that cc.get_experiment_names and cc.remove_all_experiments don't function well.

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[Timonzimm]

I think these lines are the ones involved in the issue: https://github.com/torrvision/crayon/blob/master/server/server.py#L252-L256

remove_all_experiments tries to get_experiment_names but the function retrieves only experiments which have data. This seems like incorrect logic to me, we would like to return all experiments, no matter if they have data associated or not.

[IMG-PRCSNG]

Bumping this up. Experiment with zero data points doesnt get listed in get_experiment_names(), but still exists on the server. Removing and creating seems to be the go. For now.