diff --git a/config/plugins/interactive_environments/hicbrowser/config/allowed_images.yml.sample b/config/plugins/interactive_environments/hicbrowser/config/allowed_images.yml.sample
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+# This file lists acceptable images to allow runing.
+#
+# This allows you, the admin, to create multiple flavours
+# for your users to run. E.g. maybe you need a specific branded flavour,
+# you can create the image based on our default image and add the
+# appropriate files.
+---
+-
+ image: bgruening/docker-hicbrowser
+ description: |
+ A simple web browser to visualize Hi-C and other genomic tracks
diff --git a/config/plugins/interactive_environments/hicbrowser/config/hicbrowser.ini.sample b/config/plugins/interactive_environments/hicbrowser/config/hicbrowser.ini.sample
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+[main]
+# Following options are ignored if using the Galaxy dynamic proxy but
+# are useful if mapping a range of ports for environment consumption.
+#password_auth = False
+#ssl = False
+
+[docker]
+# Command to launch docker container. For example `sudo docker` or `docker-lxc`.
+# If you need to use a command like `sg` you can do that here, just be sure to
+# wrap all of the docker portion in single quotes. E.g. `sg 'docker' 'docker {docker_args}'`
+#
+# It is recommended that you use command_inject if you need to inject
+# additional parameters. This command string is re-used for a `docker inspect`
+# command and will likely cause errors if it is extensively modified, past the
+# usual group/sudo changes.
+#command = docker {docker_args}
+
+# The image argument was moved to "allowed_images.yml.sample"
+
+# Additional arguments that are passed to the `docker run` command.
+command_inject = --sig-proxy=true -e DEBUG=false -e KILL_MODE=True -e DEFAULT_CONTAINER_RUNTIME=120
+
+# URL to access the Galaxy API with from the spawn Docker containter, if empty
+# this falls back to galaxy.ini's galaxy_infrastructure_url and finally to the
+# Docker host of the spawned container if that is also not set.
+#galaxy_url =
+
+# The Docker hostname. It can be useful to run the Docker daemon on a different
+# host than Galaxy.
+#docker_hostname = localhost
+
+# Try to set the tempdirectory to world execute - this can fix the issue
+# where 'sudo docker' is not able to mount the folder otherwise.
+# "finalize namespace chdir to /import permission denied"
+#wx_tempdir = False
+
+# Overwride the IE tempdirectory. This can be useful if you regular tempdir is
+# located on an NFS share, which does not work well as Docker volume. In this case
+# you can have a shared sshfs share which you can use as temporary directory to
+# share data between the IE and Galaxy.
+#docker_galaxy_temp_dir = None
+
+# If your Docker container exposes more then one port, Galaxy needs to know to
+# which ports it needs to connect. With this option you can specify the port number
+# inside your container to which Galaxy should connect.
+docker_connect_port = 80
diff --git a/config/plugins/interactive_environments/hicbrowser/config/hicbrowser.xml b/config/plugins/interactive_environments/hicbrowser/config/hicbrowser.xml
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+
+
+
+
+
+ HistoryDatasetAssociation
+ binary.CompressedArchive
+ dataset_id
+
+
+
+ dataset_id
+
+ hicbrowser.mako
+
diff --git a/config/plugins/interactive_environments/hicbrowser/static/js/hicbrowser.js b/config/plugins/interactive_environments/hicbrowser/static/js/hicbrowser.js
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+// Load an interactive environment (IE) from a remote URL
+// @param {String} hicexplorer_access_url: the URL embeded in the page and loaded
+function load_hicexplorer(hicexplorer_access_url){
+ // When the page has completely loaded...
+ $( document ).ready(function() {
+ // Test if we can access the GIE, and if so, execute the function
+ // to load the GIE for the user.
+ test_ie_availability(hicexplorer_access_url, function(){
+ append_notebook(hicexplorer_access_url);
+ });
+ });
+}
diff --git a/config/plugins/interactive_environments/hicbrowser/templates/hicbrowser.mako b/config/plugins/interactive_environments/hicbrowser/templates/hicbrowser.mako
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+<%namespace name="ie" file="ie.mako" />
+<%
+ # Sets ID and sets up a lot of other variables
+ ie_request.load_deploy_config()
+
+ # Define a volume that will be mounted into the container.
+ # This is a useful way to provide access to large files in the container,
+ # if the user knows ahead of time that they will need it.
+
+ import os
+ mount_path = hda.file_name
+ data_vol = ie_request.volume(mount_path, '/data/data_pack.tar.gz', how='rw')
+
+ # Add all environment variables collected from Galaxy's IE infrastructure
+ # Launch the IE.
+
+ ie_request.launch(
+ image = trans.request.params.get('image_tag', None),
+ additional_ids = trans.request.params.get('additional_dataset_ids', None),
+ volumes = [data_vol]
+ )
+
+ # Only once the container is launched can we template our URLs. The ie_request
+ # doesn't have all of the information needed until the container is running.
+
+ url = ie_request.url_template('${PROXY_URL}')
+
+%>
+
+
+ ${ ie.load_default_js() }
+
+
+
+
+
+
+