@@ -12,19 +12,21 @@ Paddle Serving is the official open source online deployment framework. The long
- Extensibility: Paddle Serving supports C++, Python and Golang client, and will support more clients with different languages. It is very easy to extend Paddle Serving to support other machine learning inference library, although currently Paddle inference library is the only official supported inference backend.
## 2. 模块设计与实现
## 2. Module design and implementation
### 2.1 Python API接口设计
### 2.1 Python API interface design
#### 2.1.1 save a servable model
The inference phase of Paddle model focuses on 1) input variables of the model. 2) output variables of the model. 3) model structure and model parameters. Paddle Serving Python API provides a `save_model` interface for trained model, and save necessary information for Paddle Serving to use during deployment phase. An example is as follows:
In the example, `{"words": data}` and `{"prediction": prediction}` assign the inputs and outputs of a model. `"words"` and `"prediction"` are alias names of inputs and outputs. The design of alias name is to help developers to memorize model inputs and model outputs. `data` and `prediction` are Paddle `[Variable](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/documentation/docs/zh/api_cn/fluid_cn/Variable_cn.html#variable)` in training phase that often represents ([Tensor](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/documentation/docs/zh/api_cn/fluid_cn/Tensor_cn.html#tensor)) or ([LodTensor](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/documentation/docs/zh/beginners_guide/basic_concept/lod_tensor.html#lodtensor)). When the `save_model` API is called, two directories called `"serving_model"` and `"client_conf"` will be generated. The content of the saved model is as follows:
`"serving_client_conf.prototxt"` and `"serving_server_conf.prototxt"` are the client side and the server side configurations of Paddle Serving, and `"serving_client_conf.stream.prototxt"` and `"serving_server_conf.stream.prototxt"` are the corresponding parts. Other contents saved in the directory are the same as Paddle saved inference model. We are considering to support `save_model` interface in Paddle training framework so that a user is not aware of the servable configurations.