Developer Reference

This page contains further information on the tools/packages we use, to guide developers who are working on mods.

The @optimod decorator

The @optimod decorator should be added to any Mod functions that need to create Gurobi models. Adding a new Mod provides a template for how to apply the decorator. The decorator provides the following arguments automatically:

• verbose, enabling users to shut off output;

• logfile, enabling users to send Mod logs to a file; and

• solver_params, enabling users to pass a dictionary of parameters to the Gurobi Optimizer.

As a Mod developer, your Mod must take a keyword argument create_env. This function should be called to create a Gurobi environment inside your Mod, and all gurobipy Model objects should use this environment. The environment must be properly closed before your Mod function returns (this is best achieved by using context managers).

Adding Citations

We use sphinxcontrib-bibtex for citations. To add citations in your mod documentation page:

• Add a <mod>.bib file under docs/source/refs

• Add your new <mod>.bib file to the bibtex_bibfiles list in docs/source/conf.py

• Use :footcite:t: or :footcite:p: as needed to cite references within your documentation

• Add the .. footbibliography:: directive at the bottom of your documentation page to show references as footnotes