Wrap an Application

Wrap an Application

extremely basic instructions to wrap an application

• from your base directory
  • edit directives.json
  • edit menu.json
  • edit modules/*.json
  • create application executable json wrappers in bin/
  • NB: executable must only output valid json to stdout
  • run $ genapp.pl
  • html output should be available via web interface
  • eg
    • http://somo.chem.utk.edu/genpptest
  • if you get forbidden errors in the web browser, make sure everything is group readable by user apache

additional notes

• if you executable needs special environment variables, you can further wrap it via a bash script where you set these
• e.g. suppose your module is called module
  • rename your bin/module to bin/module_run
  • create bin/module containing

#!/bin/bash

export MY_NEEDED_ENVIRONMENT=WHAT_I_NEED

exec `dirname $0`/module_run "$@"

• any environment exported in the above bash shell will be available to the running module