JAL-2890 added validation for parameters

diff --git a/src/jalview/ext/cipres/TreeJob.java b/src/jalview/ext/cipres/TreeJob.java
index 1a0b550..52ebbc0 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/ext/cipres/TreeJob.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ext/cipres/TreeJob.java
@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@ import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 
 import org.ngbw.directclient.CiApplication;
+import org.ngbw.directclient.CiCipresException;
 import org.ngbw.directclient.CiClient;
+import org.ngbw.restdatatypes.ErrorData;
+import org.ngbw.restdatatypes.ParamError;
 
 public class TreeJob
 {
@@ -38,10 +41,13 @@ public class TreeJob
     inputParams.put("infile_", alignmentFilePath);
   }
 
+
+
   /**
    * Specifies a parameter about the input data for a CIPRES job with its value,
    * for example the "infile_" parameter for the MSA file to calculate a tree
-   * from with file path as value.
+   * from with file path as value. Note that different tools support different
+   * input parameters.
    * 
    * @param parameter
    * @param value
@@ -99,6 +105,34 @@ public class TreeJob
     metadata.clear();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Sends this job with all given parameters to the given Cipres tool but
+   * doesn't actually run the job. This is a lightweight way to validate that
+   * the given parameters are correct for a specified tool.
+   */
+  public void validateJobParams(String toolName)
+  {
+    try
+    {
+      cipresClient.validateJob(toolName, vParams, inputParams, metadata);
+    } catch (CiCipresException ce)
+    {
+      ErrorData ed = ce.getErrorData();
+      System.out.println(
+              "Cipres error while trying to validate parameters, code="
+                      + ed.code + ", message="
+                      + ed.displayMessage
+      );
+      if (ed.code == ErrorData.FORM_VALIDATION)
+      {
+        for (ParamError pe : ed.paramError)
+        {
+          System.out.println(pe.param + ": " + pe.error);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+  }
 
 
 }