Re: [galaxy-dev] tool datatypes

2018-08-17 Thread Peter Cock
This is probably a John Chilton question, as the Planemo lead. The way I do it is to "manually" install the datatype into a Galaxy test instance (adding entries to the datatypes_conf.xml and Python files to Galaxy's internal library), and then call ``planemo test`` pointing at this test instance.

Re: [galaxy-dev] tool datatypes

2018-08-17 Thread Peter Cock
Hi Matthias, If you look at the HTML composite datatype, there is a master file (HTML), and an arbitrary number of arbitrarily named child files like images. The BLAST database datatype follows this, but we have used a simple text file as the master file (just the stdout from makeblastdb) in

Re: [galaxy-dev] tool datatypes

2018-08-17 Thread Matthias Bernt
Hi, thanks for your support. This helps. I have thought a bit about composite data types. And have additional questions. In my case the additional data is essentially a folder (w subfolders). The contents of the folder vary (it depends on the input of the programs that generate them). So