Forgive me, I'm not 100% clear on the custom plugin system used by galaxy, but if I "subclass" from the text data type, will sniffers I implement override text's and function? The lack of being able to add an entry to the sniffer section (unlike with the tabular example) led me to believe my genbank datatype wouldn't be sniffed.

Additionally, I'd still like to be able to add completely new datatypes, do you know of any working examples of this? As mentioned in my original post, duplicating an existing datatype and changing names on it surprisingly doesn't work.

I'd be lovely to have the emboss datatypes split out.

Cheers,
Eric

On July 16, 2014 8:34:55 AM CDT, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com> wrote:
Indeed - ideally (once working) we can upload under the IUC ToolShed as a
community maintained resource rather than under a personal account which
becomes a single point of failure (the bus factor).

We (the ICU) have previously discussed doing this so that the EMBOSS
datatypes could become more of a meta-entry depending on other smaller
specific datatype defining ToolShed repositories. But it hasn't reached the
top of my personal TODO list yet ;)

Peter

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Björn Grüning
<bjoern.gruening@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Eric,

please have a look at:

https://github.com/bgruening/galaxytools/blob/master/datatypes/msa_datatypes/datatypes_conf.xml

You need somthing like:
<datatype extension="genbank" type="galaxy.datatypes.data:Text"
subclass="True" />

Lets try to split the EMBOSS datatypes a little bit into small chunks. E.g.
sequences_datatypes, msa_datatypes ... and so on ...

Cheers,
Bjoern


Am 14.07.2014 20:31, schrieb Eric Rasche:

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I'm trying to add a new datatype to my galaxy instance for genbank
files, however I'm running into various issues. I've followed the
tutorial
(https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Datatypes/Adding%20Datatypes)

however that example subclasses tabular, and I'd like to subclass Text
as they're plain text files, and I'd like to be able to define a sniffer
for them (not possible if your type=galaxy.datatypes.data:Text)

I figured the call ought to be something like

<datatype extension="gb" type="galaxy.datatypes.data:Genbank"
subclass="True" />

however, everything I try fails with

Error importing datatype module galaxy.datatypes.data: 'module' object
has no attribute 'Genbank'


To avoid this particular issue, I tried writing a separate datatype just
for genbank files (type="galaxy.datatypes.genbank:Genbank" ), however
that fails with the same error:

galaxy.datatypes.registry ERROR 2014-07-14 13:23:23,100 Error importing
datatype module galaxy.datatypes.genbank: 'module' object has no attribute
'genbank'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/hxr/work/galaxy-central/lib/galaxy/datatypes/registry.py",
line 206, in load_datatypes
module = getattr( module, mod )
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'genbank'


Here's my lib/galaxy/datatypes/genbank.py looks like:

import pkg_resources
pkg_resources.require( "bx-python" )
import logging
from galaxy.datatypes import data
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

class Genbank( data.Text ):
file_ext = "gb"

def sniff( self, filename ):
header = open(filename).read(5)
return header == 'LOCUS'


To debug this, I've tried copying the tabular data type completely,
removed all the classes other than Tabular, and renamed it "Genbank",
however this fails too with the same error.

Can anyone offer some insight?

Cheers,
Eric
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