Array Inputs¶

Array Inputs refers to the 2.4.2. Array Inputs paragraph of the 2.4. Inputs chapter of the Common Workflow Language User Guide

1. Parsing¶

In this sample we'll show the access from a remote public URL.

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from cwl_loader import load_cwl_from_location
from cwl2ogc import BaseCWLtypes2OGCConverter

cwl_document = load_cwl_from_location('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eoap/cwl2ogc/refs/heads/develop/tests/artifacts/cwl-types/array-inputs.cwl')
cwl_converter = BaseCWLtypes2OGCConverter(cwl_document)
from cwl_loader import load_cwl_from_location
from cwl2ogc import BaseCWLtypes2OGCConverter

cwl_document = load_cwl_from_location('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eoap/cwl2ogc/refs/heads/develop/tests/artifacts/cwl-types/array-inputs.cwl')
cwl_converter = BaseCWLtypes2OGCConverter(cwl_document)

2025-08-12 16:36:51.624 | INFO     | cwl_loader:load_cwl_from_location:186 - Loading CWL document from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eoap/cwl2ogc/refs/heads/develop/tests/artifacts/cwl-types/array-inputs.cwl...

2025-08-12 16:36:51.725 | INFO     | cwl_loader:load_cwl_from_yaml:117 - Updating the model to v1.2...

2025-08-12 16:36:51.730 | INFO     | cwl_loader:load_cwl_from_yaml:128 - Raw CWL document successfully updated to v1.2! Now converting to the CWL model...

2025-08-12 16:36:51.762 | INFO     | cwl_loader:load_cwl_from_yaml:136 - Raw CWL document successfully updated to v1.2! Now dereferencing the FQNs...

2025-08-12 16:36:51.763 | INFO     | cwl_loader:_clean_process:62 -   Cleaning CommandLineTool array-inputs...

2025-08-12 16:36:51.763 | INFO     | cwl_loader:load_cwl_from_yaml:144 - CWL document successfully dereferenced!

2. Inputs conversion¶

Once the document is parsed, invoke the cwl2ogc APIs to convert the CWL inputs to the OGC JSON format:

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import sys

cwl_converter.dump_inputs(stream=sys.stdout, pretty_print=True)
import sys

cwl_converter.dump_inputs(stream=sys.stdout, pretty_print=True)

{
  "filesA": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "metadata": [
      {
        "title": "cwl:type",
        "value": "string[]"
      }
    ],
    "minOccurs": 1,
    "maxOccurs": 1,
    "valuePassing": "byValue",
    "title": "filesA label",
    "description": "filesA doc"
  },
  "filesB": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "metadata": [
      {
        "title": "cwl:type",
        "value": "string[]"
      }
    ],
    "minOccurs": 1,
    "maxOccurs": 1,
    "valuePassing": "byValue",
    "title": "filesB label",
    "description": "filesB doc"
  },
  "filesC": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "metadata": [
      {
        "title": "cwl:type",
        "value": "string[]"
      }
    ],
    "minOccurs": 1,
    "maxOccurs": 1,
    "valuePassing": "byValue",
    "title": "filesC label",
    "description": "filesC doc"
  }
}

3. Outputs conversion¶

Users can reuse the BaseCWLtypes2OGCConverter instance to convert the CWL outputs to the OGC JSON format:

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cwl_converter.dump_outputs(stream=sys.stdout, pretty_print=True)
cwl_converter.dump_outputs(stream=sys.stdout, pretty_print=True)

{
  "example_out": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "metadata": [
      {
        "title": "cwl:type",
        "value": "stdout"
      }
    ]
  }
}