Peculiar feature when importing method configurations from another workspace

April 18, 2019 18:38
3 comments

Hello,

I encountered very peculiar behavior when importing method configurations through Terra using the "Copy to another workspace" button:

The namespace of the method changes to the namespace of the workspace method it is imported to. make_forcecall_intervals tool is the one that I am importing from another workspace which has dlivitz_dev namespace. Below is the output from Fiss when this method imported through Firecloud:

Below is the screenshot of the same output but when the method is imported through Terra. The method now has the namespace of the workspace's namespace.

Is this a purposeful feature?

Thank you,

Luda

Comments

3 comments

Adelaide Rhodes
- April 18, 2019 19:07
Hi Luda -

I think this has something to do with how FISS was originally set up. The methods repository had a methods namespace and the workspace had a workspace namespace. These are two separate values in Firecloud. To see how this is labeling your methods, you could try the following commands in a notebook in your workspace:
```
#get the billing project for the workspace 
BILLING_PROJECT_ID = os.environ['GOOGLE_PROJECT']

BILLING_PROJECT_ID
```
```
#get the workspace name
WORKSPACE = os.path.basename(os.getcwd())
WORKSPACE
```
```
#List the Firecloud methods associated with the workspace
fiss.fapi.list_workspace_configs(BILLING_PROJECT_ID, WORKSPACE).json()
```
Try those items out and pay attention to how the value for

'methodNamespace'

differs from the value for

'namespace'

Try that and let us know if that resolves the discrepancy.
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Liudmila Elagina
- April 19, 2019 18:40
Hello Adelaide,

Great, I tried this code and see the correct method namespace in methodNamespace variable.

But except with Fiss I see this similar behavior in Firecloud GUI. The highlighted method was imported through Terra from another workspace and now in Firecloud the namespace for this method is workspace's namespace.

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Adelaide Rhodes
- April 19, 2019 18:45
Yes, the Terra namespace becomes the method namespace once you import it into Terra and look at it in Firecloud.

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