Re: [galaxy-dev] Additional Information about users in the API

2017-04-25 Thread Martin Čech
Stephan, Milen, lately Galaxy undergoes DB migrations very rarely and if so it usually just adds tables/columns in a very clear manner. API should shield you from any changes breaking your DB script but to be honest I would not expect any unless you are gathering data on some complex object relat

Re: [galaxy-dev] Additional Information about users in the API

2017-04-25 Thread Stephan Oepen
hi martin, thanks for the immediate follow-up! > Our aim at using the API is the simplicity it provides. part of my rationale in looking at the API for reporting purposes was stability: my impression is that the galaxy-internal database schema undergoes relatively frequent revisions, but i would

Re: [galaxy-dev] Additional Information about users in the API

2017-04-25 Thread Milen Kouylekov
Hi Martin, Thanks for the quick reply. We are using a slightly older version of galaxy and I did not see this useful script. I think it will work perfectly for our goals. Our aim at using the API is the simplicity it provides. Thanks again. Cheers Milen On 04/24/2017 05:19 PM, Martin Čech w

Re: [galaxy-dev] Additional Information about users in the API

2017-04-24 Thread Martin Čech
Hi Milen, I don't think Galaxy exposes what you ask for through an API and a PR to make it do so is certainly welcomed. Please note that this information (about other users) should be only exposed to an admin. Additionally is there a reason why you are gathering these stats through an API and no

[galaxy-dev] Additional Information about users in the API

2017-04-24 Thread Milen Kouylekov
Dear Team, Hi, my name is Milen Kouylekov and I am working on the galaxy portal customized for natural language technology applications. http://lap.clarino.uio.no. I wrote an reporting script that uses Galaxy API to summarize the user activity. The idea of the script is to send regular repor