live update on hdfstores in blaze server

[hhuuggoo]

@mrocklin @jreback

I would like to augment the blaze server so that if someone updates an hdfstore, the blaze server can do compute on the updated file.

Here is my plan, I'd like your feedback on it

• subclass hdfstore such that if timestamps change, the pytables file handle will be reopened if it's stale
• add an entry to resource to return this subclass

(maybe we call it livehdfstore?)

The other option is to look for a kwarg in the resource call (live=True?) and dispatch based on that to either the original hdfstore, or the subclass?

[mrocklin]

I like this solution because it doesn't require any special casing within blaze or into code. One can create a new resource function externally with either the new protocol or with the old protocol and a slightly higher priority.