[MOBY-dev] [moby] XML registration

"Antonio J. Pérez" aperezp at uma.es
Wed Jun 28 08:45:49 UTC 2006


    Hi Eddie, thank you for your mail. I will check all your information 
and I will tell you. Kind regards,

    Antonio.

Ed Kawas escribió:
> Hi Antonio,
>
> One way you could perform a bulk registration of services is by using the
> registerService call with no parameters except for signatureURL (currently
> undocumented on the moby website, but if you read the comments for the
> registerService sub in the perl module Central.pm you will find some
> documentation). 
>
> SignatureURL would point to a file containing the services that you would like
> to register in RDF format. One way to get the RDF is to use the LSID resolver
> (http://mobycentral.icapture.ubc.ca/LSID_resolver.html, useful for mobycentral
> only), an RDF generating servlet
> (http://mobycentral.icapture.ubc.ca:8090/servlets/RDFGenerator?name=parseBlastTe
> xt&auth=bioinfo.icapture.ubc.ca&uri=YOUR_REGISTRY_NAMESPACE&url=YOUR_REGISTRY_EN
> DPOINT, and generates RDF based on any registry as long as you fill in the url,
> uri and specify a servicename (name) and service provider authority (auth).
>
> The agent based registration via registerService currently works for mobycentral
> and the test registery on bioinfo (or any other registry that has deployed, and
> configured the agent).
>
> Let me know if this helps!
>
> Eddie
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Wilkinson [mailto:markw at illuminae.com] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 8:31 AM
>> To: Core developer announcements; Eddie Kawas
>> Cc: mobydev
>> Subject: Re: [moby] [MOBY-dev] XML registration
>>
>> Hi Antonio, 
>>
>> I agree that, in hindsight, it would have made more sense for 
>> those two blocks of XML to be identical, but they are not.  
>> As such, at the moment you will need to do a small amount of 
>> manipulation to derive the registerService XML from the 
>> findService XML. 
>>
>> I'm going to bounce this over to Eddie, since this problem 
>> *HAS* been solved with the RDF-based registration, which is 
>> an extension of the MOBY API but not yet part of the official 
>> API.  Nevertheless, I believe that the functionality exists 
>> and is bug-free in the current codebase, so if you wanted to 
>> "live on the edge" you could use it.  
>>
>> Eddie will be able to indicate what the state of that code 
>> is, and when it will become an official part of the API.
>>
>> M
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 13:06 +0200, "Antonio J. Pérez" wrote:
>>     
>>>     Hi, I am trying to register a service from a XML file using the 
>>> Perl API. But the XML coming from findService function is 
>>>       
>> different to 
>>     
>>> that accepted by registerService. Is there any way to 
>>>       
>> register a new 
>>     
>>> service from the XML given by registerService?
>>>     Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>     Antonio.
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>> British Columbia PI in Bioinformatics, iCAPTURE Centre St. 
>> Paul's Hospital, Rm. 166, 1081 Burrard St.
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>> What's happened now is that the conduit has become so big and 
>> interesting 
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>>
>>                 Paul Saffo - Director, Institute for the Future
>>
>>     
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