I believe Peter is correct - I think this is not documented because in part this is not encouraged. The core team tries very hard to maintain backward compatibility for tool wrappers - I don't think tools that do uploads like this however will receive the same consideration (though that is just my own opinion - I don't speak for the team at large). Certainly you can implement custom upload tools - I have seen other people do it and Jorrit and I did it for the work that eventually landed up in galaxy-extras (e.g. https://bitbucket.org/jmchilton/galaxy-extras/src/be4dd61311a9c08c4e1cb6e854...). If you want to do it - I would just start by copying over upload.xml and upload.py in tools/data_source and start modifying them to do what you want. The code backing up the underlying tag can be found scattered around the code base but some of the key files can be summarized as: upload.py and upload.xml in the data_source file define the user interface and the command-line tool that actually performs the upload. Various infrastructure that aids this includes: A custom tool action (that I believe calls upload.py in data_source) https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/src/d2300bcd600861bd4b2e5b5ec2d0... A custom widget in the form builder code: https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/src/d2300bcd600861bd4b2e5b5ec2d0... A special abstract tool parameter: https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/src/d2300bcd600861bd4b2e5b5ec2d0... Here is one of the key commits of galaxy-extras that enabled multiple upload widgets - hopefully it gives some indication of how the pieces can fit together. https://bitbucket.org/jmchilton/galaxy-extras/commits/e7f99b748e07fb2738cf5e... Hope this helps. -John On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Robert,
I'm not sure that is a good idea - the existing upload tool gets special treatment in many places in Galaxy (e.g. turning a history into a workflow), and is itself being partly replaced with the newer Galaxy work (there's a little icon above the tool panel to import data).
Peter
P.S. Don't forget to CC the galaxy-dev list.
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:59 PM, <def87@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi Peter,
thanks for your reply. I think there is a little misunderstanding: I want to implement the upload tool itself. I have code from someone else who has used the upload_dataset tag (I cannot just use his code because I want to modify something - but when I try to re-implement everything myself I need documentation). And my problem is that I do not find any documentation for this tag.
Regards, Robert
Gesendet: Freitag, 09. Mai 2014 um 16:21 Uhr Von: "Peter Cock" <p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com> An: def87@gmx.de Cc: "galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu" <galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu> Betreff: Re: [galaxy-dev] Upload a file On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:46 PM, <def87@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
I am a student who's trying to implement a simple galaxy tool. I am trying to provide the user with the option of uploading a file. I have copied code from another tool ...
The upload tool is special (and separate). Normally the user must separately upload their file(s) or import them from a shared library BEFORE trying to use any of the analysis tools.
Peter
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