Viash 0.7.5

Minor breaking changes and new features

New Release
Author

Viash Team

Published

August 11, 2023

What’s new?

This release contains minor breaking change due to deprecated or outdated functionality being removed.

New functionality includes:

  • Export a JSON schema for the Viash config with viash export json_schema

  • Export a Bash or Zsh autocomplete script with viash export cli_autocomplete

  • Nextflow VDSL3 modules now have a fromState and toState argument to allow for better control of the data that gets passed to the module and how the state is managed in a Nextflow workflow.

Full changelog

BREAKING CHANGES

  • viash export cli_schema: Added --format yaml/json argument, default format is now a YAML (PR #448).

  • viash export config_schema: Added --format yaml/json argument, default format is now a YAML (PR #448).

  • NextflowLegacyPlatform: Removed deprecated code (PR #469).

  • viash_*: Remove legacy viash_build, viash_test and viash_push components (PR #470).

  • ComputationalRequirements, Functionality, DockerPlatform, DockerRequirements: Remove documentation of removed fields (PR #477).

NEW FUNCTIONALITY

  • viash export json_schema: Export a json schema derived from the class reflections and annotations already used by the config_schema (PR #446).

  • viash export config_schema: Output default values of member fields (PR #446).

  • CI: Test support for different Java versions on GitHub Actions (PR #456). Focussing on LTS releases starting from 11, so this is 11 and 17. Also test latest Java version, currently 20.

  • viash test and viash ns test: add --setup argument to determine the docker build strategy before a component is tested (PR #451).

  • viash export cli_autocomplete: Export a Bash or Zsh autocomplete script (PR #465 & #482).

  • help message: Print the relevant help message of (sub-)command when --help is given as an argument instead of only printing the help message when it is the leading argument and otherwise silently disregarding it (initially added in PR #472, replaced by PR #496). This is a new feature implemented in Scallop 5.0.0.

  • Logging: Add a Logger helper class (PR #485 & #490). Allows manually enabling or disabling colorizing TTY output by using --colorize. Add provisions for adding debugging or trace code which is not outputted by default. Changing logging level can be changed with --loglevel. These CLI arguments are currently hidden.

  • NextflowPlatform: Nextflow VDSL3 modules now have a fromState and toState argument to allow for better control of the data that gets passed to the module and how the state is managed in a Nextflow workflow (#479, PR #501).

MINOR CHANGES

  • PythonScript: Pass -B to Python to avoid creating *.pyc and *.pyo files on importing helper functions (PR #442).

  • viash config: Special double values now support +.inf, -.inf or .nan values (PR #446 and PR #450). The stringified versions "+.inf", "-.inf" or ".nan" are supported as well. This is in line with the yaml spec.

  • system environment variables: Add wrapper around sys.env and provide access to specific variables (PR #457). Has advantages for documentation output and testbenches.

  • testbench: Added some minor testbenches to tackle missing coverage (PR #459, #486, #488, #489, #492 & #494).

  • viash export config_schema: Simplify file structure (PR #464).

  • helpers.Format: Add a helper for the Format helper object (PR #466).

  • testbench: Use config deriver to create config variants for testing (PR #498). This reduces the amount of config files that need to be maintained.

BUG FIXES

  • viash config: Validate Viash config Yaml files better and try to give a more informative error message back to the user instead of a stack trace (PR #443).

  • viash ns build: Fix the error summary when a setup or push failure occurs. These conditions were not displayed and could cause confusion (PR #447).

  • testbench: Fix the viash version switch test bench not working for newer Java versions (PR #452).

  • malformed input exception: Capture MalformedInputExceptions when thrown by reading files with invalid Ascii characters when unsupported by Java (PR #458).

  • viash project file parsing: Give a more informative message when the viash project file fails to parse correctly (PR #475).

  • DockerPlatform: Fix issue when mounting an input or output folder containing spaces (PR #484).

  • Config mod: Fix a config mod where the filter should execute multiple deletes (PR #503).

DOCUMENTATION

  • NextflowPlatform: Add documentation for the usage and arguments of a VDSL3 module (PR #501).

INTERNAL CHANGES

  • NextflowVDSL3Platform: Renamed to NextflowPlatform (PR #469).

  • Rename mentions of NextFlow to Nextflow (PR #476).

  • Reference static pages: Move .qmd files from the website to a local folder here; docs/reference (PR #504). This way we can track behaviour changes that need to be documented locally.