@bgruening do you have an example of a tool that accesses a database? I don't think I had experience writing such a tool.

@bgruening do you have an example of a tool that accesses a database? I don't think I had experience writing such a tool.

Hello @bgruening, I was wondering if you could comment on this?

What I meant with 'database' was anything accessed by the tool (could be e.g. a JSON file, but we would ideally like to use RocksDB: https://rocksdb.org/docs/getting-started.html). For a small file, I would put it into $__tool_directory__, but I guess this is a bad idea for something which is several GB in size.

The database is something like a reference that the tool needs during runtime? But is read-only?

In that case you can use location files (.loc) files. Those are tabular files that contain a bit of metadata for your "db" and the path to the DB. An admin can then configure this file and downloads the big DB and puts them somewhere locally (assuming the DB is a flat file, and not a server.)

The database is something like a reference that the tool needs during runtime? But is read-only?

Yes, exactly. Thanks a lot :)

Similar to this tool: https://github.com/bgruening/galaxytools/blob/master/tools/wordcloud/test-data/fonts.loc

With a loc file for fonts.

@bgruening here is the Dockerfile, if you have any suggestions: https://github.com/simonbray/SHCoeffsDev/blob/main/Dockerfile

The image is 9 GB, but there is a lot in there😬

Is the container smaller? Still WIP?

It is 6.5 GB now.

Still WIP :)

@bgruening I am a bit stuck with the loc file which I tried to implement in the last commit.

Tests are failing with Parameter 'database_select': requires a value, but no legal values defined, can you see if there is something I missed?

Oh, I missed the tool_data_table_conf.xml.sample file! Let me try adding it

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/ignite/storage/node00-bfcdcb74-02d8-4121-b8f8-af2d7efdb83e/lock (Read-only file system)

Does that path belong to a different user? Does it have world writeable permissions?

Does that path belong to a different user? Does it have world writeable permissions?

It is the mounted test-data directory (or to be precise a symlink to it).

When the tool is installed, will it be possible for the mounted data to be writeable? I remember we talked about it in Freiburg

Depends in the deployment, but I would always assume that most mounted volumes are read-only. Only the job dir is writable.

Failed to start grid: /opt/ignite/storage/node00-bfcdcb74-02d8-4121-b8f8-af2d7efdb83e/lock (Read-only file system)

A bunch of new errors but it looks like solid progress :)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/ignite/scripts/lira_search_sdf.py", line 159, in <module>
    main()
  File "/opt/ignite/scripts/lira_search_sdf.py", line 151, in main
    sdf_file.write(''.join(molecule))
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: can only join an iterable

@bgruening I think this is finally working as it should be.

The idea is that the user can choose between multiple databases to search. Each one will be a separate directory similar to storage in the test-data. These directories need to be mounted into the container.

@bgruening like so?