Kory Draughn
Chief Technologist
iRODS Consortium
Replacing the iRODS Rule Language
June 29 - July 2, 2026
iRODS User Group Meeting 2026
Barcelona, Spain
Goals
- Familiar syntax
- Provides features that align with how people use iRODS
- Better performance than Python
- Documented - implementation and library
- Easy to reason about
- Easy to maintain
- Easy to add new features
- Easy to fix bugs
- Small
Motivation
pep_api_data_obj_put_pre(*args ...)
{
do_work();
do_more_work();
# Escalate privileges. De-escalate privileges on the
# closing curly braces.
@rodsadmin {
rodsadmin_operation_1();
rodsadmin_operation_2();
}
do_even_more_work();
}Experimental Language
pep[pre] on_data_object_put(args)
{
do_work();
do_more_work();
# Escalate privileges. De-escalate privileges on the
# closing curly braces.
@rodsadmin {
rodsadmin_operation_1();
rodsadmin_operation_2();
}
do_even_more_work();
}