hello galaxy-community, we stored a lot of peak-information in a database. to import these files into galaxy, i read the DataConnectionProtocol (https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/DataSources) and i also took a look at the biomart.xml example (https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-dist/src/8729d2e29b02/tools/data_source/...). biomart does exactly what i want. here is my full tool configuration xml-file: <tool id="regionDb" name="RegionDb-Import"> <description>Import from regionDb</description> <command interpreter="python">../data_source/data_source.py $output $__app__.config.output_size_limit</command> <inputs action="http://localhost:8888/index.html" check_values="false" method="get"> <display>Display-Text</display> <param name="GALAXY_URL" type="baseurl" value="/tool_runner" /> <param name="tool_id" type="hidden" value="regionDb" /> </inputs> <request_param_translation> <request_param galaxy_name="URL" remote_name="URL" missing=""/> <request_param galaxy_name="URL_method" remote_name="URL_method" missing="get" /> <request_param galaxy_name="name" remote_name="name" missing="Biomart test query" /> </request_param_translation> <outputs> <data name="regionDb File" format="bed" label="regionDb import" /> </outputs> <help> **What it does** import ... </help> </tool> content of http://localhost:8888/index.html: <form method="POST" type="text" action="http://galaxy/tool_runner/regionDb?type=text&name=new%20history%20entry&URL=http://localhost:8888/getfile.php" > <input type="submit" value="Send to Galaxy"/> </form> i also tried a different action="http://galaxy/tool_runner?tool_id=regionDb&type=text&name=new%20history%20entry&URL=http://localhost:8888/getfile.php" with the same error message (shown below). what actually works is, if i try to receive biomart data with this request. <form method="POST" type="text" action="http://gen43/galaxy/tool_runner/biomart?type=text&name=ne%20history%20entry&URL=http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martview/4905f90905e8f4b362a96b887cc7c452?do_export=1&resultsButton=1" > <input type="submit" value="Send to Galaxy"/> </form> my question is: was there some extra hack to get the biomart tool to run? i found some lines in the lib/galaxy/web/controllers/tool_runner.py which confirm that assumption: #Hack to get biomart to work, ideally, we could pass tool_id to biomart and receive it back @web.expose def biomart(self, trans, tool_id='biomart', **kwd): """Catches the tool id and redirects as needed""" return self.index(trans, tool_id=tool_id, **kwd) Server Error URL: http://galaxy/tool_runner/regionDb?type=text&name=new%20history%20entry&URL=http://localhost:8888/getfile.php Module paste.exceptions.errormiddleware:143 in __call__

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app_iter = self.application(environ, start_response) Module paste.debug.prints:98 in __call__ environ, self.app) Module paste.wsgilib:539 in intercept_output app_iter = application(environ, replacement_start_response) Module paste.recursive:80 in __call__ return self.application(environ, start_response) Module galaxy.web.framework.middleware.remoteuser:109 in __call__ return self.app( environ, start_response ) Module paste.httpexceptions:632 in __call__ return self.application(environ, start_response) Module galaxy.web.framework.base:145 in __call__ body = method( trans, **kwargs ) Module galaxy.web.controllers.tool_runner:27 in regionDb return self.index(trans, tool_id=tool_id, **kwd) Module galaxy.web.controllers.tool_runner:75 in index template, vars = tool.handle_input( trans, params.__dict__ ) Module galaxy.tools:933 in handle_input _, out_data = self.execute( trans, incoming=params ) Module galaxy.tools:1225 in execute return self.tool_action.execute( self, trans, incoming=incoming, set_output_hid=set_output_hid, history=history ) Module galaxy.tools.actions:291 in execute wrap_values( tool.inputs, params ) Module galaxy.tools.actions:154 in wrap_values input_values[ input.name ] = galaxy.tools.InputValueWrapper( input, input_values[ input.name ], incoming ) KeyError: 'GALAXY_URL' extra data

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