SchemaDefRequirement section: Imports of type definitions are not supported

[mscheremetjew]

cwlexec reports the following and exits:

The field [SchemaType] is required by [type].

if a type definition is imported like that:

cwlVersion: v1.0
class: CommandLineTool

requirements:
 - class: SchemaDefRequirement
   types:
    - $import: test_values.yaml

here is a simple test case for reproduction:
test.cwl.txt
test.yaml.txt
test_values.yaml.txt

call:

$ cwlexec test.cwl test.yaml

[skeeey]

@mscheremetjew
Currently, cwlexec does not support using $import to import an input/output type from SchemaDefRequirement :-(, you need to define a type in input/output filed directly, and we will consider to support this feature in next plan, thanks

[mscheremetjew]

@skeeey Thanks for the update on that. I will work around this meanwhile.

[mr-c]

A simple workaround is to preprocess using cwltool --pack

You could also try packing your CWL into a single file with cwltool --pack test.cwll > test-packed.cwl.

This does $import and $include processing, so that may be easier for cwlexec to ingest until they become more compliant with the entirety of CWL v1.0.

[mscheremetjew]

@mr-c nice! thanks for adding this. other developers will benefit from it.