Hi John,
Thanks. To elaborate a little more: we have a LabKey Server (web front end for a database) that manages raw files and metadata. The idea is to make a galaxy tool where a user could do thing like query for all genomes from males patients, age x-y, etc. I can use LabKey's APIs to return a list of those files. However, the information at this point is text (basically a list of filepaths).
It would be nice to automatically create datasets for those files. Some of the time there's a simple 1:1 between file and the user-facing dataset (like images); however, for genomes we really want to make a paired collection. BioBlend makes it relatively easy to go from filepaths to datasets; however, the authentication issue is what wasnt clear.
If there's a more standard path to go from list of files -> galaxy dataset I'm all ears.
-Ben
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:13 PM, John Chilton jmchilton@gmail.com wrote:
Unofficial way of doing this and the workaround of using configfiles can be found in this thread:
http://dev.list.galaxyproject.org/Simple-standard-for-API-use-of-a-global-us... . There is a Trello card outlining platform work that should be done to support this better but we have not made progress on that.
I would be interested in your use case. One can dynamically discover datasets with various db keys and build collections composted of dynamically discovered datasets and keys - but there is no way to use the tool xml to dynamically discover a variable number of collections
- but it should be supported - as should building a list of paired or
lists of lists where the outer list describes the key and the inner the sample.
-John
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Ben Bimber bbimber@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I am new to galaxy. I"m trying to write a data input tool wrapper. It
will
call a script that does a query, produces a list of files, and then the
plan
is to use the BioBlend API to create datasets/data collections in galaxy. In other words I am making the dataset(s) based on the contents of this file, rather than making a dataset from that file. In my case this file
has
a pair of columns representing FASTQ files, and I want to create one
paired
dataset collection in galaxy for each genome.
In theory using bioblend to create datasets is easy. However, when I
call
this as a galaxy tool, I have not found a clean way to pass the
credentials
to bioblend. BioBlend needs to know the serverURL and either the user's
API
key or username/password. I think if I poke around $__app__ or $__user__ there's a good change I will find a property with the information I need; however, this has the obvious problem of writing the API key to the log.
Is there another way to approach this problem?
Thanks in advance for any help, Ben
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