Dockstore: Document possible syntax error with WDL

Created on 8 Feb 2019  路  4Comments  路  Source: dockstore/dockstore

See https://discuss.dockstore.org/t/getting-started-with-wdl/1544/2
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鈹咺ssue Type: Story
鈹咶ix Versions: Dockstore 1.6
鈹哠print: Seabright Sprint 5 Electric
鈹咺ssue Number: DOCK-252

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I am not a fan of the error message

methods indicate that this might be a WDL 1.0 file we skipped validation: will likely break import parsing and dag generation:

This seems like two messages concatenated together.

Maybe something like

Unknown methods were found, indicating that this may be a WDL 1.0 file. Currently Dockstore cannot parse WDL 1.0, so validation has been skipped. It is likely that the import processing and DAG generation will be broken.

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Our current parser doesn't support v1.0. Need to update our parser https://github.com/ga4gh/dockstore/issues/2171

@garyluu before closing this, please update our docs somewhere appropriate (maybe the language support table) to indicate what version we do support

I am not a fan of the error message

methods indicate that this might be a WDL 1.0 file we skipped validation: will likely break import parsing and dag generation:

This seems like two messages concatenated together.

Maybe something like

Unknown methods were found, indicating that this may be a WDL 1.0 file. Currently Dockstore cannot parse WDL 1.0, so validation has been skipped. It is likely that the import processing and DAG generation will be broken.

Confirmed that you get There is a syntax error or your WDL version is greater than draft-2. Please check the WDL file. as the error message in the workflow's description.
DockstoreAPI - 1.6.0-rc.0
DockstoreUI - 2.3.0-rc.1

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