Merge branch 'el_ext_file' into '21.2'

support external files in EventLoopGrid

See merge request atlas/athena!43681

(cherry picked from commit 4cc0499dfa8c4452e7cde190f3a69da42b5d4c20)

093d5666 support external files in EventLoopGrid

PhysicsAnalysis/D3PDTools/EventLoop/EventLoop/Job.h

@@ -440,6 +440,10 @@ namespace EL
     /// \}
 
 
+    /// a list of files that need to be available within the worker job
+    static const std::string optUserFiles;
+
+
 
     /// description: batch-specific options
     /// rationale: these options are for configuring batch drivers

PhysicsAnalysis/D3PDTools/EventLoop/Root/Job.cxx

@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ namespace EL
   const std::string Job::optRetries = SH::MetaNames::openRetries();
   const std::string Job::optRetriesWait = SH::MetaNames::openRetriesWait();
 
+  const std::string Job::optUserFiles = "nc_EventLoop_UserFiles";
+
   const std::string Job::optMemResidentPerEventIncreaseLimit =
      "nc_resMemPerEventIncrease";
   const std::string Job::optMemVirtualPerEventIncreaseLimit =

PhysicsAnalysis/D3PDTools/EventLoopGrid/data/ELG_prun.py

@@ -96,7 +96,12 @@ def ELG_prun(sample) :
         import copy
         dummycmd = copy.deepcopy(cmd)
         dummycmd += ["--outTarBall=jobcontents.tgz"]
-        dummycmd += ["--extFile=jobdef.root,runjob.sh"]
+        if len(sample.meta().castString('nc_EventLoop_UserFiles')) :
+            dummycmd += ["--extFile=jobdef.root,runjob.sh," + ",".join (sample.meta().castString('nc_EventLoop_UserFiles'))]
+            pass
+        else :
+            dummycmd += ["--extFile=jobdef.root,runjob.sh"]
+            pass
         dummycmd += ["--noSubmit"]
 
         try: