Is a workflow necessary?

[bronger]

You seem to be able to leave the function

ro-crate-validator-py/src/rocrateValidator/semanticCheck.py

Lines 769 to 816 in c3c5c18

	def scripts_and_workflow_check(tar_file, extension):
	"""
	For workflow RO-Crate, if there is an unrecognised workflow file, the function will return an warning message.
	Please check more details at RO-Crate website:
	<https://www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/1.1/workflow-and-scripts.html>
	"""
	NAME = "Scripts and workflow check"
	# wkfext_path = '/Users/xuanqili/Desktop/ro-crate-validator-py/src/workflow_extension.txt'
	error_message = {
	"WorkflowError":"Semantic Error: Scripts and Workflow is Wrong",
	"TypeError": "Semantic Error: Invalid @type value for workflow file {}. It must have File, SoftwareSourceCode and ComputationalWorkflow as value."
	}
	warning_message = {
	"UnrecognizedWkf" : "WARNING: {} is not a recognised workflow extension. Please raise an issue at GitHub: <https://github.com/ResearchObject/ro-crate-validator-py/issues>."
	}
	### dictionary to store checking result
	workflow_result = {}
	context, metadata = rocrate.read_metadata(os.path.join(tar_file, "ro-crate-metadata.json"))
	### check if recognised workflow file meets the requirments
	for entity in metadata.values():
	id_ = utils.get_norm_value(entity, "@id")[0]
	extension_set = list(we.get_workflow_extension())
	# with open (wkfext_path, "r") as file:
	# extension_set = file.read().splitlines()
	recognisedWkf_upd(extension_set, entity, workflow_result, id_, error_message)
	### check unrecognised workflow file with ComputaionalWorkflow in its @type
	for entity in metadata.values():
	type = utils.get_norm_value(entity, "@type")
	if "ComputationalWorkflow" in type:
	unrecognisedWfk_upd(type, extension_set, entity, workflow_result, warning_message, error_message)
	### fucntion will return True only when the all of the recognised workflow file are correct
	for values in workflow_result.values():
	if isinstance(values, list):
	return Result(NAME, code = -1, message = values[1])
	elif isinstance(values, str):
	return Result(NAME, code = 1, message = values)
	else:
	return Result(NAME)
	return Result(NAME, code = -1, message = error_message["WorkflowError"])

only if you have at least one workflow. But is such a thing mandatory in an RO-Crate?

[stain]

You are right, this check should rather be disabled unless the crate claims it is following the more specific Workflow RO-Crate profile.