Hi John,

Thanks.  To elaborate a little more: we have a LabKey Server (web front end
for a database) that manages raw files and metadata.  The idea is to make a
galaxy tool where a user could do thing like query for all genomes from
males patients, age x-y, etc.  I can use LabKey's APIs to return a list of
those files.  However, the information at this point is text (basically a
list of filepaths).

It would be nice to automatically create datasets for those files.  Some of
the time there's a simple 1:1 between file and the user-facing dataset
(like images); however, for genomes we really want to make a paired
collection.  BioBlend makes it relatively easy to go from filepaths to
datasets; however, the authentication issue is what wasnt clear.

If there's a more standard path to go from list of files -> galaxy dataset
I'm all ears.

-Ben

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:13 PM, John Chilton <jmchil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unofficial way of doing this and the workaround of using configfiles
> can be found in this thread:
>
> http://dev.list.galaxyproject.org/Simple-standard-for-API-use-of-a-global-user-key-that-all-loaded-tools-can-draw-upon-td4665659.html
> .
> There is a Trello card outlining platform work that should be done to
> support this better but we have not made progress on that.
>
> I would be interested in your use case. One can dynamically discover
> datasets with various db keys and build collections composted of
> dynamically discovered datasets and keys - but there is no way to use
> the tool xml to dynamically discover a variable number of collections
> - but it should be supported - as should building a list of paired or
> lists of lists where the outer list describes the key and the inner
> the sample.
>
> -John
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Ben Bimber <bbim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am new to galaxy. I"m trying to write a data input tool wrapper.  It
> will
> > call a script that does a query, produces a list of files, and then the
> plan
> > is to use the BioBlend API to create datasets/data collections in galaxy.
> > In other words I am making the dataset(s) based on the contents of this
> > file, rather than making a dataset from that file.  In my case this file
> has
> > a pair of columns representing FASTQ files, and I want to create one
> paired
> > dataset collection in galaxy for each genome.
> >
> > In theory using bioblend to create datasets is easy.  However, when I
> call
> > this as a galaxy tool, I have not found a clean way to pass the
> credentials
> > to bioblend.  BioBlend needs to know the serverURL and either the user's
> API
> > key or username/password.  I think if I poke around $__app__ or $__user__
> > there's a good change I will find a property with the information I need;
> > however, this has the obvious problem of writing the API key to the log.
> >
> > Is there another way to approach this problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help,
> > Ben
> >
> >
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