cromwell_workflow status == fail

[sckott]

@sitapriyamoorthi @vortexing On this line https://github.com/getwilds/rcromwell/blob/main/R/cromwellWorkflow.R#L37 we do

if (meta$status == "fail")

Is there some type of job that does result in a value of fail that I don't know about? If you know of what files we need to trigger this case I'd love to get them

[tefirman]

I personally have never seen this status of fail. I thought it might be workflows that are incorrectly formatted (e.g. missing parentheses) and fail the validation step, but that produced Failed, not fail.

I did find this resource from the Cromwell docs which makes me think that it's related to a bad API request, which feels pretty hard to do within the guardrails of rcromwell. Maybe we can try reproducing it with outside of rcromwell with some obviously invalid request?

[sckott]

Thanks @tefirman for your thoughts on this. I'll track that down to see if it's a bad request thing