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Creating a custom subclass and using the preprocessor is complicated. Mostly, because creating the netcdf file has to be delayed until the job is assigned to a different thread (connection to netcdf is not pickle-able).
So, when you get the error
Existing NetCDF4 output file in target output location: /.../job_000/pyDeltaRCM_output.nc
which is raised from here but actually called during the run command for the parallel job, and delivered to the user here on error, it can be pretty confusing.
I was tripped up because I forgot to pass **kwargs input to the subclass model, on to __init__ for the DeltaModel.
Two ways to help this:
- improve the documentation: emphaize the importance of passing the kwargs in any subclass
- raise a helpful warning about
defer_output=Trueduring creating parallel jobs, and so emphasizing again "Are you sure you passed **kwargs toDeltaModelinstantiation in your subclass?"