draft: sketched out SO interface CI workflow.

.github/workflows/interface_ci.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+name: interface-ci
+on: [pull_request]
+jobs:
+  checks-so-interface:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    defaults:
+        run:
+          working-directory: ./tests/ci
+    steps:
+        - name: Check out the repository to the runner
+          uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        - name: Check SO interface spec
+          run: python ./check_so_interface.py

.github/workflows/test-or-deploy.yml

@@ -26,17 +26,17 @@ jobs:
   # Run flake8 on all .py files. Should block deploys to Read The Docs.
   flake8:
     name: Flake8 Tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       # Checkout the code
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
 
       # Setup python3
-      - name: setup python 3.8.10
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      - name: setup python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8.10
+          python-version: '3.8.12'
 
       # Install flake8 modules
       - name: Install dependencies
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ jobs:
   # Validate the server docker image definitions
   docker-definitions:
     name: Docker Definition Tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       # Checkout the code.
       # We use ssh key authentication to be able to access other private
@@ -79,18 +79,18 @@ jobs:
   # Documentation automatic build tests
   test-docs:
     name: Documentation Build Tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [flake8, docker-definitions]   # Run only if all checks passed
     steps:
       # Checkout the code
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
 
-      # Setup python 3.8.10
-      - name: Setup python 3.8.10
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      # Setup python
+      - name: Setup python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8.10
+          python-version: '3.8.12'
 
       # Install requirements, pysmurf, and sphinx
       - name: Install dependencies
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ jobs:
   # Server tests
   test-server:
     name: Server Tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [flake8, docker-definitions]   # Run only if all checks passed
     steps:
       # Checkout the code
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ jobs:
   # Client tests
   test-client:
     name: Client Tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [flake8, docker-definitions]   # Run only if all checks passed
     steps:
       # Checkout the code
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ jobs:
   # Deploy new release notes to GitHub
   deploy-release-notes:
     name: Generate Release Notes
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [test-docs, test-server, test-client]  # Run only if all tests passed
     if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')      # Run only on tagged releases
     steps:
@@ -252,10 +252,10 @@ jobs:
         run: echo ::set-output name=tag::"${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}"
 
       # Setup python3
-      - name: Setup python 3.8.10
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      - name: Setup python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8.10
+          python-version: '3.8.12'
 
       # Install dependencies of the releaseGen.py script
       - name: Install dependencies
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ jobs:
   # Server docker
   deploy-server:
     name: Build Server Docker Image
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [test-docs, test-server, test-client]  # Run only if all tests passed
     if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')      # Run only on tagged releases
     steps:
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ jobs:
   # Client docker
   deploy-client:
     name: Build Client Docker Image
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [test-docs, test-server, test-client]  # Run only if all tests passed
     if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')      # Run only on tagged releases
     steps:

.gitignore

@@ -25,3 +25,4 @@ wheels/
 *.egg-info/
 .installed.cfg
 *.egg
+**/.DS_Store

python/pysmurf/client/base/smurf_config.py

@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ def validate_config(loaded_config):
 
                 # data_out_mux
                 Optional("data_out_mux",
-                         default=default_data_out_mux_dict[band]) : \
+                         default=default_data_out_mux_dict[band]) :
                 And([Use(int)], list, lambda l: len(l) == 2 and
                     l[0] != l[1] and all(0 <= ll <= 9 for ll in l)),