[FR] [RFC] vis.delete_env accepts regex pattern

In running experiments it is common, in developing/debugging stage, to start multiple runs. If each run starts an environment, the server will be soon flooded with too many envs. Currently, I usually use a combination of get_env_list and delete_env to clear all envs. But it would be cool to have a way to easily mass delete envs, e.g., by a regex pattern matching on the env names. 😃

It would be also cool to have a similar mass deleting functionality in UI as well.

cc @chail , who probably will also benefit from this 😃

[jramapuram]

Maybe a simple button somewhere here when checkboxes are ticked?

[JackUrb]

Hi @nikhilaravi, that could be an interesting solution. There’s one main approach, which starts by replacing the following <select> with some kind of multiselect: https://github.com/fossasia/visdom/blob/master/js/main.js#L1154-L1171 This will require some kind of state update to now be tracking an array of selected envIDs rather than just one.

Then it becomes an issue of configuring deleteEnv to work properly here: https://github.com/fossasia/visdom/blob/master/js/main.js#L657-L663 The new state of selected envs to delete now being an array would require this to send a socket message for each of the applicable envs.

Overall, it shouldn’t be a very involved change.