[MOBY-l] locateServiceByInput - what does "@IN" mean?

Jason E. Stewart jason at openinformatics.com
Wed May 15 22:02:55 UTC 2002


"Mark Wilkinson" <mwilkinson at gene.pbi.nrc.ca> writes:

> The MOBY-Central call "locateServiceByInput" takes a list (should be
> a list reference, actually - I'll fix that) of input Objects as one
> of its parameters.  Should MOBY-Central return only the services
> which take as input *all* Objects in that list, or should it return
> the services which take one or more of the objects in that list?
> 
> Intuitively, I would think it should return just the "all" answer,
> but when I think about it from the Client's perspective, I might
> want to follow up on only one of my object types, rather than
> limiting myself to only those services which take both...

I think it has to be 'all', otherwise how can we restrict our query?
If we want the more general, we can simply make multiple queries.

my $0.05,
jas.



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