Globus Release 2022-06-23

[Kurt McKee]

We released an update to the Web Application, and to the Automate CLI, on 06-23.

CHANGELOG

Web Application

• Notification Settings are now available in the “Transfer & Timer Options” panel in the File Manager. These determine behavior of notifications for the Transfer task using the Transfer API options: notify_on_succeed, notify_on_failed, and notify_on_inactive. See the Transfer API documentation for more details.

Automate CLI

• The CLI’s flow viewer, starter, and administrator arguments – and their aliases – are now standardized throughout the CLI and API.
  
  Although this change fixes bugs that prevented documented CLI options from working,
  it also introduces breaking changes:
  
  

• --flow-viewer, --flow-starter, and --flow-administrator are the canonical CLI options.
  
  

• The CLI option aliases will continue to work, but the alias behavior has changed:
  
  

• If an alias is used, a warning is written to STDERR.

• If the canonical option name is combined with one of its aliases,
  an error will be written to STDERR and the Automate client will exit.
  The exit code will be 1.

• If more than one of the acceptable aliases is used (like --starter and --runnable-by), an error will be written to STDERR and the Automate client will exit. The exit code will be 1.

In addition, there are breaking changes in the API:

• flow_viewers, flow_starters, and flow_administrators are the canonical API argument names.
  
  

• The API argument aliases will continue to work, but the alias behavior has changed:
  
  

• If an alias is used, a Python DeprecationWarning will be issued. Applications can control the warning behavior using Python's warnings module.

• If the canonical option name is combined with one of its aliases, a ValueError will be raised.

• If more than one of the acceptable aliases is used (like starters and runnable_by), a ValueError will be raised.

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