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This PR adds a filter that works similarly to FileOpener but uses subprocesses for opening files. The filter also opens local files.
The use of subprocesses allows for easy asynchronous I/O and avoids having to use third party libraries to access object stores and cloud storage.
Files are specified as URLs and the subprocess command line is constructed based on the URL schema.
Out of the box, PipeOpener permits access to local files, S3, GCS, HTTP, HTTPS, and AIStore. Other URL schemas can be supported simply by adding "schema=commandline" arguments to the pipeline. The generic "pipe:" schema allows arbitrary commands to be used as data sources.
PipeOpener is particularly useful with WebDataset, since WebDataset benefits greatly from asynchronous I/O and location independent datasets. But PipeOpener can be used with any remote files and provides a simple, portable way of accessing S3 and other such servers.
FileCache is a useful complement for PipeOpener, allowing the construction of pipelines that incrementally download datasets and still provide local file-based access to the dataset.