CLEM Major upgrade (i.e. V2.0)

[lie112]

This is the current Branch for CLEM V2 major upgrade.
It is provided for software review
Changes and documentation can be found at
CLEM Major Upgrade 2026
The CLEM User guide and reference manual is now updated to reflect these changes (i.e. Ruminant parameters and growth etc)

Resolves #9954

I never know whether to address all the code style suggestions as it's not clear if they are Visual Studio or APSIM and often relate to new styling conventions and code simplification of the latest C# version.

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Things to address:

• CLEM Examples aren't running in validation and neither is Validation/CLEM/CLEM_Sensibility_GrowCrop.apsimx
• Can you remove global.json (and it's copy)
• Remove Models.csproj‎ as we do want warnings as errors (and fix any warnings that throw)
• Not sure why Apsimx.sln has changed
• AnimalGroup can be reverted, functions made public, but then not used
• Can you turn the comment in ModelWithdigestibleBiomass into an issue instead
• ModelAssociationStyle looks like it wants to be a generic class, but then has specific Ruminant references, can you give me a rundown what this is needed for?

Need to look into the propertypresenter changes some more, but these are the easiest changes.

[lie112]

Examples working. The Upgrade 117 just had to be enabled (method changed and current increment increased). Removed validation files as not validation

global.json removed. Not sure where this came from. I think it was a while ago. Sometimes you have to play around to get the code to compile when moving between major versions. Usually a Clean and Rebuild of solution is enough but not always.

I don't understand how to remove models.csproj. Isn't this the master project file for models that is needed? Why do I have it and you don't? I have never added this. Do I just delete the file from the folder while Visual Studio is closed? Was this previously there and not been carried through pull requests from ASPIM/master after being removed by someone else?

What is the difference in APSIM.sln? I haven't changed it but curious as to what has.

Do I just change the code back manually in AnimalGroup or is the a revert in Git I need to use. I have removed the comment and taken the "static" from the methods. I think they were both always public. Done. changed back and committed changes

Removed the additional comment. I have lots of pages of notes created as I tried to understand the logic of SimpleGrazing and Stock, plus we have pulled apart many of the equations behind Stock and checked them as we added them to CLEM. This is a complicated space for the person who picks up Stock and we have lots of info that hasn't gone in as issues. This isn't currently my work.

ModelAssociationStyle is used with the ModelAssociationAttribute. This is a more advanced customisable version of ValidParent attribute that I use throughout CLEM. This allows me to automate the checking to ensure required components are present in the simulation in the correct scope. This allows me to define other required components at the top of each component in an easy to see location similar to ValidParent. The check of ModelAssociations is done during my model setup and validation so a need error message is written to Summary for the user to correct the issue. This can be a generic class. I was merely trying not to create too many extra CLEM specific files in other areas but accept nested classes in a file is bad practice. The link to Ruminants is that this is a special condition also required by a heap of components in CLEM. All these have removed an enormous overhead of having to try and fix users simulations and it is really easy to forget why things might break and I have to spend ages debugging only to find they are missing a component needed. This also neatly traps the changes needed for the new upgrade such that if the user hasn't added the new RuminantParameters component and all children a clean error is generated rather than a nasty null object error that none of my users can interpret.

I didn't realise I made so many changes to PropertyPresenter. They seem much bigger when looking at track changes in Git. I could convert this to a CLEMPropertyPresenter and leave the other PropertyPresenter alone. These add functionalty to PropertyPresenter which is Wrapped by a CetegoryPropertyPresenter to show category tree structure. This adds a list of properties categories and subcategories to the presenter that are obtained from Attributes associated with each properties. This somewhat mimics the grouping provided in PropertyPresenter but is more powerful. Properties can appear in more than one class and depending one where in the tree the user clicks will determine the properties displayed. I also have a user role that is set in the CLEM component. This will hide/disable properties that that don't need to know about. This saves me having to explain that just because a properties has been provided and not hard coded doesn't mean you should change it for your herd. This means simple model users can reduce the vast parameter space presented to just the parameters they'd be expected to change. This helps with searching for parameters. I am going to add a smart search box one day to further filter. This will be useful for the Stock animal parameters of which there are hundreds. Plus, it is nice to be able to filter by description on not have to know the dumb parameter naming convention like dhrmsCI12. This also allows all the properties of nested components to be seen in the one location and filtered together. See image below. All of this functionality is available now for any APSIM model by adding the Category Attribute to Properties

[Category("Task:Herd size", "Breeding females:Breeding females")]
and setting the presenter and view to wrap the property presenter
[ViewName("UserInterface.Views.PropertyCategorisedView")] [PresenterName("UserInterface.Presenters.PropertyCategorisedPresenter")]

All tasks and details are now completed.

I have found some other issues while doing this task but I am not going to be able to get them fully fixed at present.

Should I open an issue relating to how I can modify or work with SimpleGrazing? I need to either
(a) Have multiple simpleGrazing components fully parameterised in my simulation (the current preferred method of the users). One for each Zone, with their functionality turned off using the ByOtherModels enum for the request for pasture. I also need to disable the animal rotation logic. I will then need to add a public method that allows me to add urine that will go through the ZoneWithForage class managed by SimpleGrazing and do the fertilisation. I can then directly interact with all the sub-zones created in the background from my models. I think the method might need some changing as it looks for SimpleCow (which it can ignore if not present) which I don't need as I am providing the daily amount of urine from CLEM.
(b) Build a new Adapter that manages the creation of all sub-zone urine patches in soil for any Zone (paddock) in the simulation tree. This would have methods to access the paddock of interest like Forages and ForageProviders and then ant model can take feed (biomass) from the plants and deposit dung and urine via the patch urination method. Care would be needed to ensure that SimpleGrazing is not affected or the code duplicated for now. I had originally used the methods of Stock to place urine, but this doesn't allow for the patch urination of SimpleGrazing to be implemented in any livestock model.

[lie112]

Fixed merge conflict from new upgrade added while I was merging CLEM

[lie112]

I fixed the code to pass all of my timer unit tests
I have just disabled (commented) the ruminant constructor unit tests for now. The code is ok, but I need to better understand how to run the model to see object structure or work out the initialisation methods needed to generate the herd for unit tests.