This is actually way trickier than one might assume at first glace. Galaxy generally doesn't know how it is deployed (do workers need to hit the proxy or talk to wsgi directly, etc...), if the URL users access Galaxy via will work for worker nodes, even if worker nodes have consistent access.

I would recommend using something like $__app__.config.galaxy_infrastructure_url in your cheetah template and then url join that with /api. This is what Pulsar and the IPython plugin use for instance to figure out where to send and fetch files to/from. If deployers don't set that parameter galaxy_infrastructure_url - Galaxy will do some guessing based on typical configurations.

See also: https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/blob/dev/config/galaxy.ini.sample#L4...

To allow deployers to configure this on per job destination basis - I would actually fallback to this with something like: --galxay_host_url "${GALAXY_HOST_URL:-$__app__.config.galaxy_infrastructure_url}"

This allows deployers to define GALAXY_HOST_URL for a particular host if they need to but will make some reasonable default guesses otherwise (which they can do directly in job_conf.xml for instance).

-John

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Ben Bimber bbimber@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I apologize for the second email as this is related to a question from two days ago. I am writing a galaxy tool that runs code that will query the galaxy server. Within the tool wrapper XML, is there a way to write the API URL of the current server? I dont see anything along these lines documented.

Thanks in advance for any help, Ben

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