The auto-detection is only used when importing a file into Galaxy (e.g. by uploading it).
If you are writing a tool which produces output in your format, then the tool's XML should specify that output format. Which of these are you trying to do? Or both? Peter On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Katherine Beaulieu <katherine.beaulieu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm, I must have some sort of other logic error which is preventing the > detection of the format. Thanks for the information! > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.c...@googlemail.com> > wrote: >> >> Have you invented your own file format, or are you using >> an existing file format defined within Galaxy? >> >> The Galaxy file formats with automatic detection are all >> defined via Python classes which define a sniff method. >> >> Peter >> >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Katherine Beaulieu >> <katherine.beaulieu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > I am looking to auto-detect the file format of a file outputted by a >> > python >> > tool I have written. Does anyone have any idea how to do this? I have >> > tried >> > setting the format attribute to "auto" with no luck. Let me know if you >> > would like to see my tool config file. >> > Cheers, >> > Katherine >> > >> > ___________________________________________________________ >> > Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" >> > in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this >> > and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: >> > https://lists.galaxyproject.org/ >> > >> > To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: >> > http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/ > > ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: https://lists.galaxyproject.org/ To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/
