Initial PUT request to /sim does not set timeSlotDuration

[remcollier]

The initial PUT to /sim does not set the timeSlotDuration field in SimulationEngine.java. There is a TODO comment associated with the declaration of the field. To change the duration, we have had to download the server and change the default value manually.

[vcharpenay]

In data/sim.ttl (the example file to start the simulation) as well as on the HTML tutorial, there's the following comment:

:timeslotDuration 60000 ; # in ms (corresponds to simulated time, not real execution time)

What you'd like to configure is the real execution time of 100ms, right?

[vcharpenay]

I first thought timeslot duration (in real exection time) would rather go in the .properties file used to configure the server at start time. (I can implement that rather quickly.)

What would be your use case for setting this value via /sim instead of via a .properties file?

[remcollier]

so that is probably another one to chalk up to not reading the manual.

a properties file would be perfect for configuring the real execution time.

We are using 2000ms at the moment so the agents have time to respond within a smaller number of iterations, but may go higher (maybe 10000ms) when recording demos to give us time to voice over what is happening...