Input

The Prediction Service is designed to be able to take input from multiple different kinds of sources, simultaneously. Inputs provide updates in the form of flightdata.AircraftState which are pushed into the flightdata.system_state_database.SystemStateDatabase as an update using its flightdata.system_state_database.SystemStateDatabase.update method.

Currently the only input available is provided by the DebugDataFeed component of the project. The data from this component is received via tcp in the form of a protocol buffer and decoded in the prediction_service.DebugDataFeedClientThread.