wurmlab/sequenceserver

Allow multiple database directories to be specified

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#461 opened on Apr 17, 2020

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Description

Through the config file and through the command-line interface.

e.g.,

sequenceserver --database_dir /db1,/db2,/db3
sequenceserver -d /db1 -d /db2

This came up on the mailing list: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sequenceserver/7qxsNTmOI3A/WOS2yGaRAQAJ

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Research direction
Investigate how database directories are currently parsed and stored, then modify the config and CLI parsers to accept multiple comma separated or repeated d arguments.
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
backendcli
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Feature
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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70