Json metadata extraction is not including the correct info when submitting review publish type from Houdini to Deadline

vivimage · 18 April 2025 13:57

When doing local rendering the review tag is in place

[{'name': 'png', 'ext': 'png', 'files': ['reviewMain.1001.png', 'reviewMain.1002.png', 'reviewMain.1003.png', 'reviewMain.1004.png', 'reviewMain.1005.png', 'reviewMain.1006.png', 'reviewMain.1007.png', 'reviewMain.1008.png', 'reviewMain.1009.png', 'reviewMain.1010.png'], 'stagingDir': 'C:/projects/Sync_VFX_demo/BikeChase/bc0040/work/Rendering/pyblish/reviewMain', 'frameStart': 1001, 'frameEnd': 1010, 'tags': ['review', 'delete'], 'preview': True, 'camera_name': None}]

When sending to farm the deadline omits the tag and because of that there is no review created

2025-04-18 16:03:41:  0: STDOUT: DEBUG:pyblish.ExtractReview:[{'ext': 'png', 'files': ['reviewMain.1001.png', 'reviewMain.1002.png', 'reviewMain.1003.png', 'reviewMain.1004.png', 'reviewMain.1005.png', 'reviewMain.1006.png', 'reviewMain.1007.png', 'reviewMain.1008.png', 'reviewMain.1009.png', 'reviewMain.1010.png'], 'fps': 25.0, 'frameEnd': 1010, 'frameStart': 1001, 'name': 'png', 'stagingDir': 'C:/projects/Sync_VFX_demo/BikeChase/bc0040/work/Rendering/pyblish/reviewMain', 'tags': []}]

BigRoy · 18 April 2025 17:07

When submitting to the farm - a metadata.json file would get generated - can you share that one here?

vivimage · 19 April 2025 06:25

reviewMain_metadata.json (8.4 KB)
Providing the file

mustafa_jafar · 21 April 2025 16:12

6 posts were split to a new topic: Publishing Render to Deadline doesn’t generate reviews

vivimage · 21 April 2025 10:02

Not the render. The review publish type
Render publish type works for me as well

mustafa_jafar · 21 April 2025 10:06

About Review publish type, on my side it works locally but not on farm.

vivimage · 21 April 2025 10:09

Glad that it is reproduceable. Is it a bug then?

mustafa_jafar · 21 April 2025 10:15

I think the issue is coming from plugin ExtractOpenGLAndFlipbook which is responsible for setting the review tag and it’s skipped on farm.

github.com/ynput/ayon-houdini

client/ayon_houdini/plugins/publish/extract_rop.py

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          def update_representation_data(self,
                                         instance: pyblish.api.Instance,
                                         representation: dict):
              tags = ["review"]
              if not instance.data.get("keepImages"):
                  tags.append("delete")
          
              representation.update({
                  # TODO: Avoid this override?
                  "name": instance.data["imageFormat"],
                  "ext": instance.data["imageFormat"],
          
                  "tags": tags,
                  "preview": True,
                  "camera_name": instance.data.get("review_camera")
              })

vivimage · 21 April 2025 11:12

Lets not skip it on farm

mustafa_jafar · 21 April 2025 12:38

I don’t think it’s possible.
As pyblish plugins are run by AYON publish job which typically runs after Houdini render job. Also, this DL job doesn’t access the Houdini workfile, it only works with the exported files.

Also, the post title is not correct becasue the deadline doesn’t omit anything. it’s actually the json metadata extraction should have included the correct info the first place.
reviewOrange_metadata.json (8.6 KB)

Adding "review" tag manually before the AYON publish job starts results in generating the mp4 review file.

vivimage · 21 April 2025 13:14

So, what should be done to be able to generate review when sending review publish type on farm?

mustafa_jafar · 21 April 2025 16:18

I think we need to check if this error is reproducible in other DCCs. and if yes then the error maybe related to this portion of code.

github.com/ynput/ayon-core

client/ayon_core/pipeline/farm/pyblish_functions.py

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          preview = False
          # TODO 'useSequenceForReview' is temporary solution which does
          #   not work for 100% of cases. We must be able to tell what
          #   expected files contains more explicitly and from what
          #   should be review made.
          # - "review" tag is never added when is set to 'False'
          if skeleton_data["useSequenceForReview"]:
              # toggle preview on if multipart is on
              if skeleton_data.get("multipartExr", False):
                  log.debug(
                      "Adding preview tag because its multipartExr"
                  )
                  preview = True
              else:
                  render_file_name = list(collection)[0]
                  # if filtered aov name is found in filename, toggle it for
                  # preview video rendering
                  preview = match_aov_pattern(
                      host_name, aov_filter, render_file_name
                  )

or

github.com/ynput/ayon-core

client/ayon_core/pipeline/farm/pyblish_functions.py

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          preview = preview and not do_not_add_review

vivimage · 22 April 2025 12:08

I don’t have ability to test in Maya unfortunately