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Galaxy object model metadata #8595

Open innovate-invent opened 5 years ago

innovate-invent commented 5 years ago

It would be great if every model in Galaxy supported attaching metadata. This includes StoredWorkflows, steps, tools, histories, hda, ldda, etc. This metadata would be accessible via api GET, PUT, POST transactions. Ideally all objects returned via the api would have a 'metadata' field that contains key-value pairs. This allows applications built off the API to store application specific data in a structured way that is maintained by Galaxies underlying database schema constraints. If an object is deleted, the metadata should be cleaned up with it.

innovate-invent commented 3 years ago

This might actually already be supported but is undocumented.