[MOBY] [MOBY-l] Continuing problems invoking Moby Services

Mon Oct 20 12:29:40 EDT 2003

Thank you SO MUCH! The Moby community rocks. :)

Jay Potts
Software Engineer / AI Specialist
Discovery Machine Inc.
www.discoverymachine.com

"Every artist must have two fears--
the fear of God and the fear of man--
fear of God that his creation will ultimately be found unworthy
and the fear of man that he will be misunderstood by his fellows."
- Robert Frost

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Wilkinson [mailto:markw at illuminae.com]
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:21 AM
To: Jay Potts
Cc: mobyl
Subject: Re: [MOBY] [MOBY-l] Continuing problems invoking Moby Services

My fault.  It's fixed now.

Sorry about that!

M

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 07:09, Jay Potts wrote:
> Hey Folks,
> I'm still having some trouble invoking Moby Services using Java.
>
> Could someone who is familiar with the GetGoTerm service, please take a
look
> at this and let me know if I'm simply sending bad data to that service?
>
> I'm using the Call method of the Java Api, after setting up a new endpoint
> and URI to point to the service I want.
>
> This is the message I'm sending as the payload of the SOAP message:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <soapenv:Envelope
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>  <soapenv:Body>
>   <namesp3:getGoTerm xmlns:namesp3="http://biomoby.org/">
>   <body>
>    <![CDATA[<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
> <moby:MOBY xmlns:moby="http://www.biomoby.org/moby">
>       <moby:Query>
>               <moby:queryInput moby:articleName="ccc">
>                       <moby:Simple>
>                               <moby:Object moby:namespace="GO"
moby:id="GO:0008303" />
>                       </moby:Simple>
>               </moby:queryInput>
>       </moby:Query>
> </moby:MOBY>]]>
>   </body>
>     </namesp3:getGoTerm>
>  </soapenv:Body>
> </soapenv:Envelope>
>
>
> Now, when I send that message, I get this response:
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
>       <moby:MOBY xmlns:moby='http://www.biomoby.org/moby'>
>         <moby:Response moby:authority='http://www.illuminae.com'>
>
>     </moby:Response>
>       </moby:MOBY>
>
>
> So, thinking that perhaps I was giving it too much, I then tried sending
> just the body of that message, which is the following:
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
> <moby:MOBY xmlns:moby="http://www.biomoby.org/moby">
>       <moby:Query>
>               <moby:queryInput moby:articleName="ccc">
>                       <moby:Simple>
>                               <moby:Object moby:namespace="GO"
moby:id="GO:0008303" />
>                       </moby:Simple>
>               </moby:queryInput>
>       </moby:Query>
> </moby:MOBY>
>
>
> And the response is then somewhat different:
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
>       <moby:MOBY xmlns:moby='http://www.biomoby.org/moby'>
>         <moby:Response moby:authority='http://www.illuminae.com'>
>
>         <moby:queryResponse/>
>
>         <moby:queryResponse/>
>
>     </moby:Response>
>       </moby:MOBY>
>
>
> Its still apparently empty, but it's got those two queryResponse lines in
> there.
>
> So, I have a few questions:
> 1) Which is correct for setting as the payload? Should I set the top
> message, that is a whole soap message, or should I send the bottom, which
is
> just the xml document containing the argument? Keep in mind I'm using the
> Java API's call method, and passing the message as the payload (which one
I
> should pass, I'm not sure).
> 2) Does anyone who is actually familiar with the GetGoTerm service, know
if
> I'm actually calling it correctly? I have a feeling that I'm not giving it
> what it wants, which is why it's just giving me empty messages back.
> 3) Does the articleName attribute of the queryInput matter? I have it set
as
> ccc for no reason, mainly because I saw it in messages that other people
> posted up. I think this is supposed to be the name of a named input,
right?
> If that's the case, where do I find out what this name is supposed to be?
> Will it break it if it's not named correctly?
>
>
>
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Mark Wilkinson <markw at illuminae.com>
Illuminae