Idea #5621
Updated by Radhika Chippada about 9 years ago
Today on IRC, sguthrie asked "how can I get the full path of a file in an arvados collection?" and Brett answered (in IRC) as follows:
11:38 The TASK_KEEPMOUNT environment variable tells you where the mount is. So fundamentally you just have to do `os.path.join(os.environ['TASK_KEEPMOUNT'], collection_hash, file_path)`
So say you have a job that takes a reference, and then you create tasks to compare specific files against it.
11:38 You can get the path of the reference with get_job_param_mount, and the path of the specific file with get_task_param_mount.
11:38 Both results will start with the path in TASK_KEEPMOUNT, but they look at parameters in different places to generate the rest of the path.
11:38 Does that make sense?
I think it would be quite helpful if we capture some of these helpful tips and hints in some form of documentation.