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saladVersion: v1.1
$base: "https://w3id.org/cwl/cwl#"
$namespaces:
cwl: "https://w3id.org/cwl/cwl#"
rdfs: "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
$graph:
- name: "WorkflowDoc"
type: documentation
doc:
- |
# Common Workflow Language (CWL) Workflow Description, v1.1
This version:
* https://w3id.org/cwl/v1.1/
Current version:
* https://w3id.org/cwl/
- "\n\n"
- {$include: contrib.md}
- "\n\n"
- |
# Abstract
One way to define a workflow is: an analysis task represented by a
directed graph describing a sequence of operations that transform an
input data set to output. This specification defines the Common Workflow
Language (CWL) Workflow description, a vendor-neutral standard for
representing workflows intended to be portable across a variety of
computing platforms.
- {$include: intro.md}
- |
## Introduction to CWL Workflow standard v1.1
This specification represents the latest stable release from the
CWL group. Since the v1.0 release, v1.1 introduces the
following updates to the CWL Workflow standard.
Documents should to use `cwlVersion: v1.1` to make use of new
syntax and features introduced in v1.1. Existing v1.0 documents
should be trivially updatable by changing `cwlVersion`, however
CWL documents that relied on previously undefined or
underspecified behavior may have slightly different behavior in
v1.1.
## Changelog
* Clarify intent of ExpressionTool and clarify that they can be run standalone.
* Clarify how Requirements are inherited by step processes.
* Clarify behavior around step inputs not consumed by the target
run process.
* Document explicitly that CWL allows pass-through of workflow inputs to outputs.
* Added optional name and doc fields to `OutputRecordSchema`.
* Default values for some fields are now expressed in the schema.
* When defining record types, fields of type `File` may now include
`format`, `secondaryFiles`, and `streamable`.
* The `Input` schemas (`Record`, `Array`, `Enum`), now permits a `doc` field.
* Any `doc` field may be an array of strings in addition to the
previously allowed single string.
* The `run` field now introduces a subscope so that embedded
definitions do not have identifier conflicts with the
outer workflow.
* `Workflow.inputs` and `ExpressionTool.inputs` now refer to the type
`WorkflowInputParameter` instead of `InputParameter`; the only syntax
difference from v1.0 is that `inputBinding` is now deprecated (as
there is no command line to bind input values to) and `inputBinding`
in a `Workflow` context will be removed in v2.0. Use the new
`WorkflowInputParameter.loadContents` instead.
* The presence of `OutputRecordField.outputBinding` in v1.0 was due to
a technical error and as it makes no semantic sense it was removed.
* `WorkflowStepInput` now has a `label` field.
* [Addition](#Requirements_and_hints) of `cwl:requirements` field to
input object documents.
* `secondaryFiles` can now be explicitly marked as `required` or not.
* Add note that undefined details related to execution are left open to
the platform.
* [Added](#WorkReuse) `WorkReuse` feature, allowing to enable or disable the reuse
behavior for a particular tool or step for implementations that
support reusing output from past work.
* [Added](#NetworkAccess) `NetworkAccess` feature, allowing to indicate whether a
process requires outgoing network access.
* [Added](#InplaceUpdateRequirement) `InplaceUpdateRequirement` feature, allowing tools to directly
update files with `writable: true` in `InitialWorkDirRequirement`.
* [Added](#LoadListingRequirement) `LoadListingRequirement`
and [loadListing](#LoadContents) to control whether and how
`Directory` listings should be loaded for use in expressions.
* [Better explain](#map) the `map<…>` notation that has existed since v1.0.
* Fixed schema error where the `type` field inside the `inputs` and
`outputs` fields for both `Workflow` and `ExpressionTool` was
incorrectly listed as optional.
* For multi-Process CWL documents, if no particular process is named then
the process with the `id` of `#main` is chosen.
* [Made explicit](#Generic_execution_process) that the `$namespaces` of
the top level CWL document are also available to the input object as
well.
* Fields with type "Expression" no longer include "string" in
the type union unless a string is semantically valid. Where
a bare string is not semantically valid, these fields must
contain either a non-string value accepted by the field
type, or a valid expression which returns a value having one
of the the other types defined for that field.
* [WorkflowStepInput](#WorkflowStepInput) now has a `loadContents` field.
* [WorkflowStepInput.id](#WorkflowStepInput) field value does not have to match an
`input.id` value from the process specified in the `run` field.
* 2021-11-22 Errata: Fixed `$schema` typo. It is `$schemas` (plural).
See also the [CWL Command Line Tool Description, v1.1 changelog](CommandLineTool.html#Changelog).
## Purpose
The Common Workflow Language Command Line Tool Description express
workflows for data-intensive science, such as Bioinformatics, Chemistry,
Physics, and Astronomy. This specification is intended to define a data
and execution model for Workflows that can be implemented on top of a
variety of computing platforms, ranging from an individual workstation to
cluster, grid, cloud, and high performance computing systems. Details related
to execution of these workflow not laid out in this specification are open to
interpretation by the computing platform implementing this specification.
- {$include: concepts.md}
- name: ExpressionToolOutputParameter
type: record
extends: OutputParameter
fields:
- name: type
type:
- CWLType
- OutputRecordSchema
- OutputEnumSchema
- OutputArraySchema
- string
- type: array
items:
- CWLType
- OutputRecordSchema
- OutputEnumSchema
- OutputArraySchema
- string
jsonldPredicate:
"_id": "sld:type"
"_type": "@vocab"
refScope: 2
typeDSL: True
doc: |
Specify valid types of data that may be assigned to this parameter.
- name: WorkflowInputParameter
type: record
extends: InputParameter
docParent: "#Workflow"
fields:
- name: type
type:
- CWLType
- InputRecordSchema
- InputEnumSchema
- InputArraySchema
- string
- type: array
items:
- CWLType
- InputRecordSchema
- InputEnumSchema
- InputArraySchema
- string
jsonldPredicate:
"_id": "sld:type"
"_type": "@vocab"
refScope: 2
typeDSL: True
doc: |
Specify valid types of data that may be assigned to this parameter.
- name: inputBinding
type: InputBinding?
doc: |
Deprecated. Preserved for v1.0 backwards compatability. Will be removed in
CWL v2.0. Use `WorkflowInputParameter.loadContents` instead.
jsonldPredicate: "cwl:inputBinding"
- type: record
name: ExpressionTool
extends: Process
specialize:
- specializeFrom: InputParameter
specializeTo: WorkflowInputParameter
- specializeFrom: OutputParameter
specializeTo: ExpressionToolOutputParameter
documentRoot: true
doc: |
An ExpressionTool is a type of Process object that can be run by itself
or as a Workflow step. It executes a pure Javascript expression that has
access to the same input parameters as a workflow. It is meant to be used
sparingly as a way to isolate complex Javascript expressions that need to
operate on input data and produce some result; perhaps just a
rearrangement of the inputs. No Docker software container is required
or allowed.
fields:
- name: class
jsonldPredicate:
"_id": "@type"
"_type": "@vocab"
type: string
- name: expression
type: Expression
doc: |
The expression to execute. The expression must return a JSON object which
matches the output parameters of the ExpressionTool.
- name: LinkMergeMethod
type: enum
docParent: "#WorkflowStepInput"
doc: The input link merge method, described in [WorkflowStepInput](#WorkflowStepInput).
symbols:
- merge_nested
- merge_flattened
- name: WorkflowOutputParameter
type: record
extends: OutputParameter
docParent: "#Workflow"
doc: |
Describe an output parameter of a workflow. The parameter must be
connected to one or more parameters defined in the workflow that
will provide the value of the output parameter. It is legal to
connect a WorkflowInputParameter to a WorkflowOutputParameter.
fields:
- name: outputSource
doc: |
Specifies one or more workflow parameters that supply the value of to
the output parameter.
jsonldPredicate:
"_id": "cwl:outputSource"
"_type": "@id"
refScope: 0
type:
- string?
- string[]?
- name: linkMerge
type: ["null", LinkMergeMethod]
jsonldPredicate: "cwl:linkMerge"
default: merge_nested
doc: |
The method to use to merge multiple sources into a single array.
If not specified, the default method is "merge_nested".
- name: type
type:
- CWLType
- OutputRecordSchema
- OutputEnumSchema
- OutputArraySchema
- string
- type: array
items:
- CWLType
- OutputRecordSchema
- OutputEnumSchema
- OutputArraySchema
- string
jsonldPredicate:
"_id": "sld:type"
"_type": "@vocab"
refScope: 2
typeDSL: True
doc: |
Specify valid types of data that may be assigned to this parameter.
- name: Sink
type: record
abstract: true
fields:
- name: source
doc: |
Specifies one or more workflow parameters that will provide input to
the underlying step parameter.
jsonldPredicate:
"_id": "cwl:source"
"_type": "@id"
refScope: 2
type:
- string?
- string[]?
- name: linkMerge
type: LinkMergeMethod?
jsonldPredicate: "cwl:linkMerge"
default: merge_nested
doc: |
The method to use to merge multiple inbound links into a single array.
If not specified, the default method is "merge_nested".
- type: record
name: WorkflowStepInput
extends: [Identified, Sink, LoadContents, Labeled]
docParent: "#WorkflowStep"
doc: |
The input of a workflow step connects an upstream parameter (from the
workflow inputs, or the outputs of other workflows steps) with the input
parameters of the process specified by the `run` field. Only input parameters
declared by the target process will be passed through at runtime to the process
though additonal parameters may be specified (for use within `valueFrom`
expressions for instance) - unconnected or unused parameters do not represent an
error condition.
## Input object
A WorkflowStepInput object must contain an `id` field in the form
`#fieldname` or `#prefix/fieldname`. When the `id` field contains a slash
`/` the field name consists of the characters following the final slash
(the prefix portion may contain one or more slashes to indicate scope).
This defines a field of the workflow step input object with the value of
the `source` parameter(s).
## Merging
To merge multiple inbound data links,
[MultipleInputFeatureRequirement](#MultipleInputFeatureRequirement) must be specified
in the workflow or workflow step requirements.
If the sink parameter is an array, or named in a [workflow
scatter](#WorkflowStep) operation, there may be multiple inbound data links
listed in the `source` field. The values from the input links are merged
depending on the method specified in the `linkMerge` field. If not
specified, the default method is "merge_nested".
* **merge_nested**
The input must be an array consisting of exactly one entry for each
input link. If "merge_nested" is specified with a single link, the value
from the link must be wrapped in a single-item list.
* **merge_flattened**
1. The source and sink parameters must be compatible types, or the source
type must be compatible with single element from the "items" type of
the destination array parameter.
2. Source parameters which are arrays are concatenated.
Source parameters which are single element types are appended as
single elements.
fields:
- name: default
type: ["null", Any]
doc: |
The default value for this parameter to use if either there is no
`source` field, or the value produced by the `source` is `null`. The
default must be applied prior to scattering or evaluating `valueFrom`.
jsonldPredicate:
_id: "sld:default"
noLinkCheck: true
- name: valueFrom
type:
- "null"
- string
- Expression
jsonldPredicate: "cwl:valueFrom"
doc: |
To use valueFrom, [StepInputExpressionRequirement](#StepInputExpressionRequirement) must
be specified in the workflow or workflow step requirements.
If `valueFrom` is a constant string value, use this as the value for
this input parameter.
If `valueFrom` is a parameter reference or expression, it must be
evaluated to yield the actual value to be assiged to the input field.
The `self` value in the parameter reference or expression must be
1. `null` if there is no `source` field
2. the value of the parameter(s) specified in the `source` field when this
workflow input parameter **is not** specified in this workflow step's `scatter` field.
3. an element of the parameter specified in the `source` field when this workflow input
parameter **is** specified in this workflow step's `scatter` field.
The value of `inputs` in the parameter reference or expression must be
the input object to the workflow step after assigning the `source`
values, applying `default`, and then scattering. The order of
evaluating `valueFrom` among step input parameters is undefined and the
result of evaluating `valueFrom` on a parameter must not be visible to
evaluation of `valueFrom` on other parameters.
- type: record
name: WorkflowStepOutput
docParent: "#WorkflowStep"
extends: Identified
doc: |
Associate an output parameter of the underlying process with a workflow
parameter. The workflow parameter (given in the `id` field) be may be used
as a `source` to connect with input parameters of other workflow steps, or
with an output parameter of the process.
A unique identifier for this workflow output parameter. This is
the identifier to use in the `source` field of `WorkflowStepInput`
to connect the output value to downstream parameters.
- name: ScatterMethod
type: enum
docParent: "#WorkflowStep"
doc: The scatter method, as described in [workflow step scatter](#WorkflowStep).
symbols:
- dotproduct
- nested_crossproduct
- flat_crossproduct
- name: WorkflowStep
type: record
extends: [Identified, Labeled, sld:Documented]
docParent: "#Workflow"
doc: |
A workflow step is an executable element of a workflow. It specifies the
underlying process implementation (such as `CommandLineTool` or another
`Workflow`) in the `run` field and connects the input and output parameters
of the underlying process to workflow parameters.
# Scatter/gather
To use scatter/gather,
[ScatterFeatureRequirement](#ScatterFeatureRequirement) must be specified
in the workflow or workflow step requirements.
A "scatter" operation specifies that the associated workflow step or
subworkflow should execute separately over a list of input elements. Each
job making up a scatter operation is independent and may be executed
concurrently.
The `scatter` field specifies one or more input parameters which will be
scattered. An input parameter may be listed more than once. The declared
type of each input parameter is implicitly becomes an array of items of the
input parameter type. If a parameter is listed more than once, it becomes
a nested array. As a result, upstream parameters which are connected to
scattered parameters must be arrays.
All output parameter types are also implicitly wrapped in arrays. Each job
in the scatter results in an entry in the output array.
If any scattered parameter runtime value is an empty array, all outputs are
set to empty arrays and no work is done for the step, according to
applicable scattering rules.
If `scatter` declares more than one input parameter, `scatterMethod`
describes how to decompose the input into a discrete set of jobs.
* **dotproduct** specifies that each of the input arrays are aligned and one
element taken from each array to construct each job. It is an error
if all input arrays are not the same length.
* **nested_crossproduct** specifies the Cartesian product of the inputs,
producing a job for every combination of the scattered inputs. The
output must be nested arrays for each level of scattering, in the
order that the input arrays are listed in the `scatter` field.
* **flat_crossproduct** specifies the Cartesian product of the inputs,
producing a job for every combination of the scattered inputs. The
output arrays must be flattened to a single level, but otherwise listed in the
order that the input arrays are listed in the `scatter` field.
# Subworkflows
To specify a nested workflow as part of a workflow step,
[SubworkflowFeatureRequirement](#SubworkflowFeatureRequirement) must be
specified in the workflow or workflow step requirements.
It is a fatal error if a workflow directly or indirectly invokes itself as
a subworkflow (recursive workflows are not allowed).
fields:
- name: in
type: WorkflowStepInput[]
jsonldPredicate:
_id: "cwl:in"
mapSubject: id
mapPredicate: source
doc: |
Defines the input parameters of the workflow step. The process is ready to
run when all required input parameters are associated with concrete
values. Input parameters include a schema for each parameter which is
used to validate the input object. It may also be used build a user
interface for constructing the input object.
- name: out
type:
- type: array
items: [string, WorkflowStepOutput]
jsonldPredicate:
_id: "cwl:out"
_type: "@id"
identity: true
doc: |
Defines the parameters representing the output of the process. May be
used to generate and/or validate the output object.
- name: requirements
type: ProcessRequirement[]?
jsonldPredicate:
_id: "cwl:requirements"
mapSubject: class
doc: |
Declares requirements that apply to either the runtime environment or the
workflow engine that must be met in order to execute this workflow step. If
an implementation cannot satisfy all requirements, or a requirement is
listed which is not recognized by the implementation, it is a fatal
error and the implementation must not attempt to run the process,
unless overridden at user option.
- name: hints
type: Any[]?
jsonldPredicate:
_id: "cwl:hints"
noLinkCheck: true
mapSubject: class
doc: |
Declares hints applying to either the runtime environment or the
workflow engine that may be helpful in executing this workflow step. It is
not an error if an implementation cannot satisfy all hints, however
the implementation may report a warning.
- name: run
type: [string, Process]
jsonldPredicate:
_id: "cwl:run"
_type: "@id"
subscope: run
doc: |
Specifies the process to run.
- name: scatter
type:
- string?
- string[]?
jsonldPredicate:
"_id": "cwl:scatter"
"_type": "@id"
"_container": "@list"
refScope: 0
- name: scatterMethod
doc: |
Required if `scatter` is an array of more than one element.
type: ScatterMethod?
jsonldPredicate:
"_id": "cwl:scatterMethod"
"_type": "@vocab"
- name: Workflow
type: record
extends: "#Process"
documentRoot: true
specialize:
- specializeFrom: InputParameter
specializeTo: WorkflowInputParameter
- specializeFrom: OutputParameter
specializeTo: WorkflowOutputParameter
doc: |
A workflow describes a set of **steps** and the **dependencies** between
those steps. When a step produces output that will be consumed by a
second step, the first step is a dependency of the second step.
When there is a dependency, the workflow engine must execute the preceding
step and wait for it to successfully produce output before executing the
dependent step. If two steps are defined in the workflow graph that
are not directly or indirectly dependent, these steps are **independent**,
and may execute in any order or execute concurrently. A workflow is
complete when all steps have been executed.
Dependencies between parameters are expressed using the `source` field on
[workflow step input parameters](#WorkflowStepInput) and [workflow output
parameters](#WorkflowOutputParameter).
The `source` field expresses the dependency of one parameter on another
such that when a value is associated with the parameter specified by
`source`, that value is propagated to the destination parameter. When all
data links inbound to a given step are fufilled, the step is ready to
execute.
## Workflow success and failure
A completed step must result in one of `success`, `temporaryFailure` or
`permanentFailure` states. An implementation may choose to retry a step
execution which resulted in `temporaryFailure`. An implementation may
choose to either continue running other steps of a workflow, or terminate
immediately upon `permanentFailure`.
* If any step of a workflow execution results in `permanentFailure`, then
the workflow status is `permanentFailure`.
* If one or more steps result in `temporaryFailure` and all other steps
complete `success` or are not executed, then the workflow status is
`temporaryFailure`.
* If all workflow steps are executed and complete with `success`, then the
workflow status is `success`.
# Extensions
[ScatterFeatureRequirement](#ScatterFeatureRequirement) and
[SubworkflowFeatureRequirement](#SubworkflowFeatureRequirement) are
available as standard [extensions](#Extensions_and_Metadata) to core
workflow semantics.
fields:
- name: "class"
jsonldPredicate:
"_id": "@type"
"_type": "@vocab"
type: string
- name: steps
doc: |
The individual steps that make up the workflow. Each step is executed when all of its
input data links are fufilled. An implementation may choose to execute
the steps in a different order than listed and/or execute steps
concurrently, provided that dependencies between steps are met.
type:
- type: array
items: "#WorkflowStep"
jsonldPredicate:
mapSubject: id
- type: record
name: SubworkflowFeatureRequirement
extends: ProcessRequirement
doc: |
Indicates that the workflow platform must support nested workflows in
the `run` field of [WorkflowStep](#WorkflowStep).
fields:
- name: "class"
type: "string"
doc: "Always 'SubworkflowFeatureRequirement'"
jsonldPredicate:
"_id": "@type"
"_type": "@vocab"
- name: ScatterFeatureRequirement
type: record
extends: ProcessRequirement
doc: |
Indicates that the workflow platform must support the `scatter` and
`scatterMethod` fields of [WorkflowStep](#WorkflowStep).
fields:
- name: "class"
type: "string"
doc: "Always 'ScatterFeatureRequirement'"
jsonldPredicate:
"_id": "@type"
"_type": "@vocab"
- name: MultipleInputFeatureRequirement
type: record
extends: ProcessRequirement
doc: |
Indicates that the workflow platform must support multiple inbound data links
listed in the `source` field of [WorkflowStepInput](#WorkflowStepInput).
fields:
- name: "class"
type: "string"
doc: "Always 'MultipleInputFeatureRequirement'"
jsonldPredicate:
"_id": "@type"
"_type": "@vocab"
- type: record
name: StepInputExpressionRequirement
extends: ProcessRequirement
doc: |
Indicate that the workflow platform must support the `valueFrom` field
of [WorkflowStepInput](#WorkflowStepInput).
fields:
- name: "class"
type: "string"
doc: "Always 'StepInputExpressionRequirement'"
jsonldPredicate:
"_id": "@type"
"_type": "@vocab"