function to parse form data and write to json file

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gn3/computations/wgcna.py b/gn3/computations/wgcna.py
index e69de29..3819b62 100644
--- a/gn3/computations/wgcna.py
+++ b/gn3/computations/wgcna.py
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+"""module contains code to preprocess and call wgcna script"""
+
+import os
+import json
+import uuid
+from gn3.settings import TMPDIR
+
+
+def dump_wgcna_data(request_data):
+    """function to dump request data to json file"""
+    filename = f"{str(uuid.uuid4())}.json"
+
+    temp_file_path = os.path.join(TMPDIR, filename)
+
+    with open(temp_file_path, "w") as output_file:
+        json.dump(request_data, output_file)
+
+    return temp_file_path