CWL CommandLineTools are not currently visualized

[manabuishii]

Common Workflow Language Viewer does not display the Graph of user_guide/1st-tool.cwl at gh-pages · common-workflow-language/user_guide

Description

I provide the following URL to URL to workflow field and push Parse Workflow

https://github.com/common-workflow-language/user_guide/blob/gh-pages/_includes/cwl/1st-tool.cwl

But there is not graph.

Expected Behavior

Display the graph of user_guide/1st-tool.cwl at gh-pages · common-workflow-language/user_guide

Actual Behavior

Error

Error: The workflow could not be found within the repository

Looks like this

Possible Fix

I hope more messages about the cause of error.

It is better to provide more information , ex. the error line of the file or URL is wrong or something about Why this workflow is not parsed ?

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open https://view.commonwl.org
2. Fill URL of workflow with https://github.com/common-workflow-language/user_guide/blob/gh-pages/_includes/cwl/1st-tool.cwl
3. Push Parse Workflow

Context

I want to see the graph of CWL files of CWL User guide .
At least I hope https://view.commonwl.org can parse any CWL file on https://github.com/common-workflow-language/
because view.commonwl.org is official tool.

Your Environment

• Version used:
• Mac 62.0.3202.94 (Official Build) (64-bit)

[mr-c]

The reason of the error is that the viewer is just for CWL Workflows not CommandLineTools or ExpressionTools. I agree that the error should be improved if a CommandLineTool was provided

[manabuishii]

Thanks.
I understand why the graph is not display.
I hope to support display CommandLineTool graph 😄

[mr-c]

@manabuishii What would you want from a CommandLineTool visualization?

[manabuishii]

@mr-c
The reason why I want to visualize CommandLineTool

The very fist example of user guide 1st-tool.cwl is CommandLintTool
Common Workflow Language User Guide: First Example

So I want to visualize it to demonstrate to other people.

[mr-c]

Are you saying you'd like a diagram similar to the workflow visualizations with inputs at the top and outputs at the bottom with the baseCommand at the center?

Or do you want every inputBinding and argument also visualized?