ISA-tools/ISAcreator — Issue #101: On validation failure, show configuration
Author: sneumann
Created: 2011-10-19 11:55:12+00:00
State: open

Hi,

Once I (thought I had) described my study, I verified it and (of course) there were problems.

The error message said

2011-10-19 13:38:06,241 [WARN ] org.isatools.tablib.mapping.SectionTabMapper [fmt:MS/SPEC Assay File file:a_E200.txt] [sect:ASSAYS] - the column "Metabolite Assignment File" (#28) is in a wrong position, or some other column is missing before this. Please check the ISATAB specification.

The "Metabolite Assignment File" is only mentioned in a very generic way in the Specs,
and I doubt the average users knows where and what to look for.

The authoritative source for the validation error (I guess) is the currently used configuration.
So instead of pointing into the Spec file, a (read-only) view of the configuration as the ISAconfigurator
would present it would help to determine what went wrong.

Oh yes, I'll keep you posted what the *actual* error was in my study,
it might be the missing protocol information before the "Metabolite Assignment File".
The ISA data is currently in Dropbox/ISATAB-datasets/E200/

Yours,
Steffen