"""Submit a ComfyUI workflow (API format) to a running instance and collect its outputs. python tools/render_ab.py --host --port 8188 \\ --workflow smoke-prompt.json --set 13.unet_name=my.safetensors --set 10.noise_seed=7 \\ --outdir /tmp/ab ``--set .=`` patches the graph; values are JSON-decoded when possible so numbers, lists and the existing ``["13", 0]`` style links keep working. Prints the produced files and can wait for the job to finish (``--wait``), which is what the A/B renders use. """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import json import sys import time import urllib.error import urllib.parse import urllib.request import uuid from pathlib import Path def _post(url: str, payload: dict) -> dict: data = json.dumps(payload).encode() req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=data, headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"}) with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=120) as resp: return json.loads(resp.read()) def _get(url: str) -> bytes: with urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=300) as resp: return resp.read() def _json_get(url: str) -> dict: return json.loads(_get(url)) def patch(graph: dict, assignments: list[str]) -> None: for item in assignments: target, _, raw = item.partition("=") node_id, _, input_name = target.partition(".") if node_id not in graph: raise SystemExit(f"node {node_id} not in workflow") if input_name not in graph[node_id]["inputs"]: raise SystemExit(f"node {node_id} has no input {input_name!r}") try: value = json.loads(raw) except json.JSONDecodeError: value = raw graph[node_id]["inputs"][input_name] = value def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int: ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter) ap.add_argument("--host", required=True) ap.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=8188) ap.add_argument("--workflow", required=True) ap.add_argument("--set", dest="assignments", action="append", default=[]) ap.add_argument("--outdir", required=True) ap.add_argument("--timeout", type=float, default=1800.0) ap.add_argument("--wait", action="store_true") args = ap.parse_args(argv) base = f"http://{args.host}:{args.port}" body = json.loads(Path(args.workflow).read_text()) graph = body.get("prompt", body) patch(graph, args.assignments) client_id = str(uuid.uuid4()) result = _post(f"{base}/prompt", {"prompt": graph, "client_id": client_id}) prompt_id = result["prompt_id"] print(f"queued {prompt_id}", flush=True) if not args.wait: return 0 outdir = Path(args.outdir) outdir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) deadline = time.time() + args.timeout while time.time() < deadline: history = _json_get(f"{base}/history/{prompt_id}") entry = history.get(prompt_id) if entry: status = entry.get("status", {}) if status.get("status_str") == "error": raise SystemExit(f"job failed: {json.dumps(status)[:400]}") if entry.get("outputs"): break time.sleep(5) else: raise SystemExit("timed out waiting for the prompt") saved: list[str] = [] for node_outputs in entry["outputs"].values(): for kind in ("gifs", "videos", "images", "audio"): for item in node_outputs.get(kind, []): query = urllib.parse.urlencode( {"filename": item["filename"], "subfolder": item.get("subfolder", ""), "type": item.get("type", "output")} ) blob = _get(f"{base}/view?{query}") target = outdir / item["filename"] target.write_bytes(blob) saved.append(f"{target} ({len(blob) / 2**20:.1f} MiB)") print("outputs:\n " + "\n ".join(saved) if saved else "no outputs") return 0 if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main())