Miscellaneous improvements to SimBeamSpotObjects handling utilities

[mmusich]

PR description:

This is a follow-up PR to #41918.
Miscellaneous improvements to SimBeamSpotObjects handling utilities, including:

• add expected transverse width to the payload inspector
• add CondCore/BeamSpotPlugins unit tests for the exercise the plots introduced in Update utilities for SimBeamSpotObjects handling #41918
• miscellaneous clean-up of the plugins to create and read SimBeamSpotObjects payloads
• usage of auto-generated configuration fragments from fillDescriptions whenever possible
• introduce some utilities to directly dump to sqlite and consequently upload to DB all vertex smearing PSets from IOMC/EventVertexGenerators/python/VtxSmearedParameters_cfi.py

PR validation:

Relies on the existing (and augmented) unit tests.

If this PR is a backport please specify the original PR and why you need to backport that PR. If this PR will be backported please specify to which release cycle the backport is meant for:

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[cmsbuild]

+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-41967/35930

• This PR adds an extra 32KB to repository

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @mmusich (Marco Musich) for master.

It involves the following packages:

• CondCore/BeamSpotPlugins (db)
• CondTools/BeamSpot (db, alca)
• IOMC/EventVertexGenerators (simulation)

@civanch, @mdhildreth, @cmsbuild, @saumyaphor4252, @francescobrivio, @tvami can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@tocheng, @mmusich, @fabiocos, @grzanka this is something you requested to watch as well.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @rappoccio you are the release manager for this.

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[tvami]

@cmsbuild , please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-28aaf2/33166/summary.html
COMMIT: 04edf79
CMSSW: CMSSW_13_2_X_2023-06-14-1100/el8_amd64_gcc11
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/41967/33166/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 15 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 12 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 48
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3196062
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 15
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3196025
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 47 files compared)
• Checked 207 log files, 159 edm output root files, 48 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[tvami]

+1

• dedicated unit tests pass

[civanch]

+1

[cmsbuild]

+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-41967/35933

• This PR adds an extra 36KB to repository

[cmsbuild]

Pull request #41967 was updated. @civanch, @mdhildreth, @cmsbuild, @saumyaphor4252, @francescobrivio, @tvami can you please check and sign again.

[mmusich]

@cmsbuild, please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-28aaf2/33174/summary.html
COMMIT: 9877ac0
CMSSW: CMSSW_13_2_X_2023-06-15-1100/el8_amd64_gcc11
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/41967/33174/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially added 10 lines to the logs
• Reco comparison results: 0 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 48
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3196062
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3196040
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 47 files compared)
• Checked 207 log files, 159 edm output root files, 48 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[tvami]

+1

[civanch]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next master IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @rappoccio (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[mmusich]

is there anything holding this up?

[perrotta]

is there anything holding this up?

We don't merge PRs while building a (pre) release. Now pre2 is out

[perrotta]

+1