Workflow invocation export to BioCompute: error when a creator has an email attribute

[bebatut]

Describe the bug

The workflow invocation export to BioCompute object is failing and raising an error when there is in the workflow a creator with an email attribute. It happens if the email is empty or not and even if the email is valid.

Galaxy Version and/or server at which you observed the bug Galaxy servers: UseGalaxy France, UseGalaxy Europe Galaxy Version: 23.1, 24.0

Browser and Operating System Operating System: macOS Browser: Firefox

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a workflow that includes a creator with an email attribute

   Example of workflow that fails (creator with email attribute): https://usegalaxy.fr/u/bebatut/w/copy-of-test-biocompute-email-issue---sans-email-dans-attributs Example of workflow that works (creator without email attribute): https://usegalaxy.fr/u/bebatut/w/copy-of-test-biocompute-email-issue---sans-createurs-sauf-abromics

2. Run the workflow (example of input history: https://usegalaxy.fr/u/bebatut/h/test-biocompute-email-issue)

3. Export the workflow invocation to BioCompute object

Expected behavior Error generated

err_msg "Unknown error: 1 validation error for Contributor\nemail\n  value is not a valid email address: The email address contains invalid characters before the @-sign: ':'. [type=value_error, input_value='mailto:berenice.batut@uca.fr', input_type=str]"
err_code    500001

[mvdbeek]

"email": "mailto:berenice.batut@uca.fr" .. that's probably wrong? If so we should have caught that though while saving the workflow.