Returning submissionID from avworkflow_run?

[amstilp]

I've been using the Bioconductor AnVIL package to programmatically submit workflows, and it's great!

One potential improvement would be to have avworkflow_run() also return the submissionId of the job. Right now it returns the config that the workflow was submitted with. However, I can easily get that from avworkflow_configuration_inputs, but it's not so straightforward to get the submissionId. (The user has to call avworkflow_jobs() and assume that the most recent one is the submission, which is usually but not guaranteed to be true in a shared workspace.)

It does look like the Rawls API for createSubmission returns the submissionId so maybe it's not too difficult to change? I'm also open to creating a pull request to make this change, if welcomed.

[LiNk-NY]

Hi Adrienne, @amstilp

Thanks for creating an issue. Sorry for the delay.

The proposed solution would be to add something like LastSubmissionId to the returned config and a message such as:

Workflow submitted; Setting config$LastSubmissionId: d0069ded-9de3-43c3-8556-ceea39badb13
  See avworkflow_jobs() for more details.

How does that sound?

[LiNk-NY]

Feel free to test with this branch: https://github.com/Bioconductor/AnVIL/tree/workflow_run_submissionId

[amstilp]

That sounds great, thanks for implementing!

[LiNk-NY]

resolved in version 1.17.2