WDL support

[Anton Kulaga]

Looks like everybody is moving to WDL https://software.broadinstitute.org/wdl/ It allows to avoid vendor lock-in and share the pipelines. It would be great to be able to generate WDL files from anduril workflows and get warnings if such files cannot be generated (in cases when the pipeline is too complex to be described in WDL). Lack of WDL support is the main feature that prevents me from using Anduril in my lab.

P.S. BTW, there is a JVM library for WDL https://github.com/broadinstitute/wdl4s that can be used to deal with WDL files

[Ville Rantanen]

to me, WDL looks like just another Anduril. As such, I don't see the benefit for us in making pipeline exports to any other language. If you want to do that, please go ahead.

I would start from looking at the _state file in the execution folder, that file describes the links between components.

Since I have not found anyone interested in this topic, I'll put the ticket on hold

[Ville Rantanen]

If you want to take part in developing better solutions for Anduril, we can have a more in detail discussion on the topic. We could do with people who know scala and java in depth.