Well host is probably not enough - it doesn't seem like a good idea to assume http right? There is the prefix and (trans.request.scheme) that could be missing. Is trans.request.base what you want? Maybe trans.request.path_url? It should be possible to recover that from trans I guess - though I don't know exactly what parts of the request you need to use. So this isn't in stable yet - but there is going to be a sanctioned way for Galaxy deployers to describe what the URL to their Galaxy instance should be for internal consumption (stuff like docker containers and Pulsar) https://bitbucket.org/natefoo/galaxy-central/commits/4348618b4b8dd5f0c6d6cca.... It will be settable in config/galaxy.ini and accessible via trans.app.config.galaxy_infrastructure_url. There is a related attribute trans.app.config.galaxy_infrastructure_url_set which if True specifies that the deployer actually filled in a value and this is not Galaxy's best guess at what URL should be used to access it. If it is false - probably best to fallback to something like trans and the request if you have it. Hope this helps some. -John On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Dooley, Damion <Damion.Dooley@bccdc.ca> wrote:

After uploading my beta status tool to our test toolshed, I tried installing it on another of our galaxy servers but it wasn't able to find the api endpoint url. Is there a way to automatically do this within tool forms? I was hoping to avoid hardcoding this as part of the tool installation process. I'd thought I had it automated:

In tool's form, a dynamic_options param

<param name="api_url" display="radio" type="drill_down" label="For user with Galaxy API Key" dynamic_options="vdb_init_tool_user(__trans__)" />

was able to pass "trans" galaxy structure so I got as far as this python:

self.api_url = 'http://' + trans.request.host

... but this yeilds

http://acme.com/

rather than what's needed, the path to a particular installation:

http://acme.com/galaxy/

I couldn't find a way to read the /galaxylab/ setting from the (slightly dated) universe_wsgi.ini config file - without say reading the file and parsing it. Is there an __app__.config.prefix or somesuch variable where this info is?

Thanks!

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