[moby] [MOBY-l] Dynamically discovering service parameters

[bgulden at purdue.edu]

According to the API, the function $ServiceInstance->input/output will only 
return SimpleArticles or a CollectionArticles.  I have tried using these 
functions on services where I know there are secondary inputs and the only 
articles that appear are Simple or Collection.  If this was recently changed 
in the MOBY code, that would explain my problems (I have an older release of 
the code Sept '04 I believe).

Thanks again,
-Brian

Quoting Mark Wilkinson <markw at illuminae.com>:

> Hi Brian, 
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up! The documentation for
> MOBY::Client::ServiceInstance hasn't been updated properly.
> 
> You should be able to get what you want as follows:
> 
> my $outputs $ServiceInstance->output;
> # returns MOBY::Cient::SimpleArticle, CollectionArticle,
> # and/or SecondaryArticle objects
> 
> foreach (@$outputs){ 
> 	if ($_->isSecondary){
> 		print $_->articleName;
> 		print $_->min;
> 		print $_->max;
> 		print $_->default;
> 		print $_->datatype;
> 	}
> }
> 
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 
> M
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:20 -0500, bgulden at purdue.edu wrote:
> > Is there any way to dynamically discover the secondary input for each 
> > service?  Perhaps something akin to $ServiceInstance->input?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > -Brian Gulden
> > 
> > 
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