support self-hosted gitlab URLs instead of having to fill out the long form

[swzCuroverse]

From question on forum -- CWL-viewer seems to have issues viewing a cwl workflows form gitlabs-- I replicated it as well.
Link: https://gitlab.inria.fr/capsid.public_codes/CroMaSt/-/blob/main/CroMaSt.cwl

Link to question:
https://gitlab.inria.fr/capsid.public_codes/CroMaSt/-/blob/main/CroMaSt.cwl

I went and found a another CWL workflow from gitlabs here -- https://gitlab.com/iidsgt/biocwl/-/blob/master/Workflows/Build-RNA-Indexes.cwl and it also couldn't render it -- so it might be a general issue with gitlab URLs.

[cwl-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on Common Workflow Language Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://cwl.discourse.group/t/about-cwl-viewer/632/9

[kinow]

Hi, the URL provided, https://gitlab.inria.fr/capsid.public_codes/CroMaSt/-/blob/main/CroMaSt.cwl, does not pass the current regex tests in the JavaScript code

cwlviewer/src/main/resources/static/js/main.js

Lines 80 to 98 in 3088d53

	if (gitPattern.test(input)) {
	var success = false;
	if (input.startsWith("ssh") || input.startsWith("git@")) {
	addWarning("url", "SSH is not supported as a protocol, please provide a HTTPS URL to clone");
	} else {
	success = true;
	if (!$("#branch").val()) {
	addWarning("branch", "You must provide a branch name for the workflow");
	success = false;
	}
	if (!$("#path").val()) {
	addWarning("path", "You must provide a path to the workflow or a directory of workflows");
	success = false;
	}
	}
	return success;
	} else if (!githubPattern.test(input) && !gitlabPattern.test(input)) {
	addWarning("url", "Must be a URL to a workflow or directory of workflows on Gitlab or Github, or a Git repository URL");
	return false;

.

There are two regular expressions, one for GitHub, and for for GitLab. Respectively:

• https?://github.com
• https?://gitlab.com

So they expect that any URL provided to CWL Viewer starts with either github.com or gitlab.com.

@swzCuroverse now with so many companies hosting their own internal GitLab servers, I think maybe we should consider supporting other ways to verify if a URL is hosted on GitLab, GitHub, or any other git server (e.g. the Apache Software Foundation uses primarily gitweb, https://gitbox.apache.org/, but allows other projects to change and use gitlab/github with a mirror to gitweb/gitbox).

-Bruno

[cwl-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on Common Workflow Language Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://cwl.discourse.group/t/about-cwl-viewer/632/10