[Iplant-api-dev] Questions about passing boolean variable from DE to api

[Barthelson, Roger A - (rogerab)]

I think for the booleans in the DE, if you put in --x=true for the
argument, then that is what enters the command line, in effect or as you
saw, the alternative is that you get nothing.

Roger


Roger Barthelson Ph.D.
Scientific Analyst
iPlant Collaborative
BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona
Phone: 520-977-5249
Email: rogerab at email.arizona.edu
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On 8/1/13 3:46 PM, "Wang, Liya" <wangli at cshl.edu> wrote:

>Roger,
>
>Thanks. I might need to explain it better.
>
>For the current DE, if x is true, it will be passed as empty. If x is
>false, it will be ignored so that it will not appear in the command line
>in iplant.sh.
>
>I am not sure how the API adapter is coded to handle this but none of the
>approaches I tried actually works.
>
>Liya
>On Aug 1, 2013, at 5:49 PM, "Barthelson, Roger A - (rogerab)"
><rogerab at email.arizona.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> For something like that, I usually just put in if statements:
>> 
>> e.g.
>> if [ "${x}" == true ];
>> then
>> OPT="$OPT -r true";
>> fi
>> if [ "${$x}" != true];
>> then
>> OPT="$OPT -r false";
>> fi
>> 
>> 
>> In this example, I use $OPT to contain any or all options. So the
>> executable statement can be something like velveth $OPT $input. I set
>>some
>> option "-r" to true or false, but this can be used to take care of any
>> truly optional option. If that makes sense.
>> 
>> Roger
>> 
>> 
>> Roger Barthelson Ph.D.
>> Scientific Analyst
>> iPlant Collaborative
>> BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona
>> Phone: 520-977-5249
>> Email: rogerab at email.arizona.edu
>> Web: www.iplantcollaborative.org/
>>           bio-it.arizona.edu/Roger_Barthelson_Home.html
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/1/13 2:19 PM, "Wang, Liya" <wangli at cshl.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> It seems that boolean variables are handled differently from DE. For
>>> example, if I have variable x with value 'true', it will be passed as
>>> '--x='. Otherwise, it will be ignored.
>>> 
>>> I was expecting that it will be passed as '--x=true' or '--x=false'.
>>>Any
>>> idea how to handle this in the shell wrapper script?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Liya
>>> 
>>> 
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