[MOBY-dev] [MOBY-l] updating MOBY Central with input/outputarticleNames

[Pieter Neerincx]

Hi Eddie,

Super, I'll update.

Thanks,

Pi

On 2-May-2006, at 3:16 PM, Edward Kawas wrote:

> Hi Pieter,
>
> If you update your version of Taverna, you no longer have to fill  
> in the article
> name as it is filled in automatically.
>
> Eddie
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: moby-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org
>> [mailto:moby-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of
>> Pieter Neerincx
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:56 AM
>> To: mobydev
>> Subject: Re: [MOBY-dev] [MOBY-l] updating MOBY Central with
>> input/outputarticleNames
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On 25-Apr-2006, at 4:53 PM, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> A few months ago the spec for service registration was
>> tightened such
>>> that all inputs and outputs require an articleName.  This is now
>>> required also in Taverna workflows, and as such, many
>> "illegitimate"
>>> services currently in the registry will not function with
>> Taverna even
>>> though they are perfectly functional in reality.
>>>
>>> Given that these services are not looking for an
>> articleName, it will
>>> do no harm to them if one were added.  Thus the fastest way
>> to bring
>>> all service registrations back into compliance with the API
>> would be
>>> for me to manipulate the MOBY Central database directly and add
>>> "dummy"
>>> articleNames
>>> ("input", "output") to all inputs and outputs that are
>> currently un-
>>> named.
>>>
>>> Would this bother anyone?
>>
>> It's fine with me. Actually I already registered most of my
>> services to use "input" and "output" as dummy articleNames to
>> make sure they worked in Taverna :). I was wondering the
>> following though. Maybe this is a question for Eddie. If
>> * articleName attributes are required for input and output
>> articles and
>> * every service is registered with certain articleNames for
>> their inputs and outputs,
>> * wouldn't it be possible to let Taverna fill in those
>> articleName attributes automatically?
>>
>> Currently I have to fill them in manually all the time and
>> that is a bit boring :(. Furthermore I already spent quite a
>> bit of time staring at XML wondering why something didn't
>> work ... and in the end it was a missing articleName or one
>> with a typo.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Pi
>>
>>> Please let me know ASAP.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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