Hi Peter,

<bjoern.gruening@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi Peter,

I saw your are working again on the job splitting features. I may have a features request:

Well, not really working on it - just reporting a regression using it.

Ah ok :)

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For some tools you have different file formats as input but only for one or two of them the split and merge function are defined. If the filetype is now one of these non splittable ones, Galaxy will crash. I think a better way would be to default to non-split mode?

I guess that isn't supported.

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Does that make sense for you? Any pointer where to look? Its not urgent, but it was on my todo list. Just remembered it, reading your mail.

Yes, that makes perfect sense. Possibly here lib/galaxy/jobs/__init__.py it needs to look at the datatype to see that supports splitting:

def can_split( self ): # Should the job handler split this job up? return self.app.config.use_tasked_jobs and self.tool.parallelism

We could/should take this discussion to galaxy-dev,

Sure, I thought it would be more easier, some missing "return" or something. Will have a deeper look at it if I have some more time. Trello card is here: https://trello.com/c/lIKKwiC1 Thanks! Bjoern

Regards,

Peter