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Support CWL written with JSON

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. While looking at #3616, it came up that we don’t support CWL written using JSON. CWL documentation says it can be written with yaml or json or a combination of the two. If I try to register

{
  "cwlVersion": "v1.0"
  "class": "Workflow"
}

it results in an error

Describe the solution you’d like Allow json cwl to be registered on Dockstore

Describe alternatives you’ve considered Don’t bother? I have no idea how many people use the json format for cwl

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Story ┆epic: Third-party integrations ┆fixVersions: Dockstore 2.X ┆friendlyId: DOCK-1487 ┆sprint: Backlog ┆taskType: Story

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)

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denis-yuencommented, May 5, 2022

I think this has consequences for the CLI, syntax highlighting, parsing, etc.

Let’s see how popular this request is in terms of voting, a workaround might just be to direct people at something like https://jsonformatter.org/json-to-yaml or https://www.json2yaml.com/

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bethsheetscommented, Apr 29, 2022

Sorry, they are different, but “export” is what I meant.

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