[MOBY-dev] questions (mostly) on service invocation

[Ken Steube]

I don't know about 1), but here's some info on the other two:

For 2) the API does describe secondary params. Go to
http://www.biomoby.org/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/BioMOBYAPI and search for
'Secondary'. It has max, min and some other tags.

I haven't tried to write any services that use secondary params.  Has
anyone else?

For 3) the strings in GO_Term have been given names. Go to this URL to see
them:

  http://plantsp.sdsc.edu/cgi-bin/MOBY/MOBY_display_object_xml.cgi?obj=GO_Term

Ken

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Martin Senger wrote:

> Mark et al,
>    I am slowly getting into understanding what was discussed on the last
> Moby meeting about service invocations. Please be patient with me... I am
> working now on the Java API of the service invocation - and I need some
> answers.
>
>    1) I understand that there are two usages for the tag <Simple>. It is
> used once when one registers a service by Moby Central. And there is
> another one that is used in the service invocation. The former contains
> definition of data type, the latter contain a run-time value (of this
> type). i think that it would be much clearer if we use different tags -
> for example <Simple> and <SimpleValue>.
>    The same applies for collections.
>    Is my understanding correct?
>
>    2) The same as above applies also to the secondary parameters. but in
> this case it is worse because the API does not define (at least I have not
> found it) what is the structure of the tag "secondaryParameters" (the tag
> used in run-time to carry value/values of the secondary parameters).
>
>    3) Finally, I had to mis a lot - but I do not understand why all those
> sample (XML) objects in the API table of the hypotetical examples do not
> have any names (or article names). For example, how one can distringuish
> between two Strings in the GO_Term object?
>
>    Thanks for your help and patience,
>    Martin
>
>

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