Cannot upload files without extensions #6557
Description
Background:
- Political Analysis is working with authors and with Code Ocean (whom I work for) to make authors' code reproducible & executable as part of the publication process.
- Authors upload their materials to Code Ocean, e.g. https://doi.org/10.24433/CO.4189072.v1, and then those materials are exported to the Political Analysis Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/pan)
- We currently do this manually but the goal is to have API integration that automates the export and uploading process.
Problem:
- Code Ocean's 'master script' (the thing the system executes when a reader or author presses 'Reproducible Run') is just called
run, no file extension. It's a shell script comprising something like:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -ex
# This is the master script for the capsule. When you click "Reproducible Run", the code in this file will execute.
Rscript "Run_all.R"
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It's a bash script, but we dropped the extension at some point.
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Dataverse does not seem to allow us to upload files without file extensions.
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When I drag and drop
run(or something callednewfilewith arbitrary text in it) via the Dataverse Interface, my browser (Firefox) scrolls to the top of the page, and when I scroll down, the file has not been uploaded. -
When I tried a few weeks ago (on Chrome) to upload all the materials from https://doi.org/10.24433/CO.4189072.v1, I received a message that
runandRun_all.Rare duplicates and onlyRun_all.Rwas successfully uploaded.
The short-term solution:
- We can rename all the
runscriptsrun.shbefore they are uploaded to Dataverse.
The problem with that short-term solution, long-term:
- An additional manual step in the process makes API integration harder because it's one more thing that could go wrong in an unsupervised setting (what if users already have a
run.shscript uploaded, for instance).
The ideal solution (from our POV):
- Dataverse allows files that do not have file extensions to be uploaded.