On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Greg Von Kuster <greg@bx.psu.edu> wrote:
On Feb 15, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Peter Cock wrote:
Actually for the example I am working on, the motif.py script would be the tool executable, called from motif.xml like this:
<command interpreter="python">motif.py $fasta_file $tabular_file</command>
i.e. A completely self contained Galaxy tool consisting of four files:
motif.xml - Galaxy tool definition motif.txt - README file motif.py - Python script which is the tool motif.dat - Data file used by the Python script
I am hoping that no further XML configuration files are needed in order to handle the data file.
Peter
In this case, your motif.xml file can be configured with the following:
<command interpreter="python"> motif.py $fasta_file $tabular_file </command> <requirements> <requirement type="set_environment">MOTIF_DAT_PATH</requirement> </requirements>
and your repository will need to include the following tool_dependencies.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <tool_dependency> <set_environment version="1.0"> <environment_variable name="MOTIF_DAT_PATH" action="set_to">$REPOSITORY_INSTALL_DIR</environment_variable> </set_environment> </tool_dependency>
That seems overly complicated. Would I not be able to assume that the motif.xml, motif.py, motif.dat etc are all in the same folder (then I can just use a relative path to find the data file - nice and easy). If not, how about simply defining $REPOSITORY_INSTALL_DIR within the XML language so I can do this: <command interpreter="python">motif.py $fasta_file $tabular_file $REPOSITORY_INSTALL_DIR/motif.dat</command> And/or defining $REPOSITORY_INSTALL_DIR as an environment variable which I can then use in the script (be it Python, Perl, shell, etc)? Thanks, Peter