[MOBY-dev] BioMOBY Asynchronous Service Call Proposal v2.3

[Johan Karlsson]

One simple way for a service to indicate the next "recommended" time for 
a client to poll for status is to use the time progress event from LSAE 
(already defined in LSAE and included in the proposal, so a client 
should be able to understand it).

Quoting from the Life Sciences Analysis Engine specification at 
http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?dtc/2005-04-01

---------------
Time progress event
Time progress event indicates the estimated number of seconds before the 
job is completed. There is no requirement that
the estimated completion time decreases. An example:

<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE analysis_event SYSTEM "AnalysisEvent.dtd">
<analysis_event timestamp="today">
<message>This is a TIME PROGRESS analysis event.</message>
<time_progress remaining="324"/>
</analysis_event>
---------------

In that example, the service estimates that it will take 324 seconds 
until it completes the analysis, so a client could use that information 
to decide the next poll-time?

Kind regards,
Johan

Paul Gordon wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> Extending is never a technical problem, only a social problem.  I can 
> add a new tag easily, but unless most people use it, it isn't too 
> useful.  That's why I was suggesting that MOBY-S define (or at least 
> strongly suggests) some common name for this...whether we put it in the 
> LSAE events or WSRF is inconsequential to me.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
>   
>> Paul,
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Yeah, I'd looked at the LSAE events, but was surprised to see that there
>>> wasn't anything about refresh rates in it.
>>>     
>>>       
>> And why should it? If you need a special event that can deliver an
>> information about a refresh rate, you can extend an existing event.
>>
>> An oversight on the OMG group's part I think...
>>
>>
>> No oversight here, just this was not the primary purpose (and I should know
>> because what you call an "OMG group" was actually me :-)).
>>
>> Martin
>>   
>>     
> No disrespect intended :-)
>
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Johan Karlsson
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Integrated Bioinformatics Node (GNV-5)
Dpto. de Arquitectura de Computadores
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