[MOBY-dev] problem with article names?

[Edward Kawas]

Martin,

Can you explain this a little more because I don’t
understand what you are trying to say.

Eddie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: moby-dev-bounces at portal.open-bio.org [mailto:moby-
> dev-bounces at portal.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Martin
> Senger
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 4:17 AM
> To: David González Pisano
> Cc: Mark Wilkinson; Moby Developers
> Subject: [MOBY-dev] problem with article names?
> 
> Reading David's email about exception, I noticed an
> interesting point
> which probably need some clarification (but it is noy
> about exceptions so
> I have changed the subject):
> 
> > Anyway, I keep on guessing what happens with my
> articleNames if I gather
> > several Simples and build a Collection with them (in a
> workfow), or I
> > split a Collection into its Simples and send them to
> other service(s)
> > one by one (in a workflow), and how those articleNames
> relate to the
> > "elementID"?
> >
>    Well, I do not know how they relate to elementID, but I
> wonder how we
> can send output from a service to another service (in
> workflow) at all!
> Because if services start to be behaving strictly
> according to the new API
> and start to require article names, then we have a
problem.
> Big problem I
> would say.
>    If we want to keep symmetry between input and output
> (and we want it
> desperately otherwise it would not work in workflows
> engines) we probably
> cannot insist on the mandatorness of the article name (of
> the top-level
> Simple, or Collection, I am not talking about article
> names of object's
> children). Am I right?
>    I am either missing something (which is possible in the
> heat here), or
> we need to talk again about how mandatory the article
> names should be.
> 
>    Martin
> 
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