Pyfunc Components

Pyfunc components are generalized python components that can be configured to behave as a custom python component entirely through component parameters and application arguments. A pyfunc component maps directly to an existing python function or a lambda expression, named application arguments and input ports are mapped to the function keyword args, and the result is mapping to the output port.

Port Parsers

Pyfunc components when interfacing with data drops may use one of several builtin port parsing formats.

• Binary

• Pickle

• Dill

• Numpy

• Base64

• UTF-8

Port parsing is now possible on a per-port basis, which means that a PyFunc application may take into account input parameters from various data sources of different origins and encodings.