[MOBY-l] Service Instances

[Michael DiBernardo]

On 17-Aug-07, at 7:21 AM, Michael DiBernardo wrote:

>
> On 17-Aug-07, at 2:08 AM, maliha aziz wrote:
>
>> Hi Andreas
>> I actually need the service name its inputs as well as outputs ...  
>> I looked at the org.biomoby.shared.Central the maximum i could see  
>> was this  function that could  be of some use
>>
>> getServiceNamesByAuthority()
>>            Get a list of all authorities - and for each of them a  
>> list of  their registered service names.
>
> This is a gotcha in the API that tripped me up at first. If you  
> just use the Central interface, you can only fetch the _names_ of  
> the services. You then have to make a call to findServiceByName for  
> each service to populate the other fields of each service interface.
>
> Alternately, you can use CentralDigestImpl directly and call  
> getServices(). That will fetch you the inputs and outputs as well,  
> but it still leaves some fields in each MobyService unpopulated.

A minor correction: There is an interface that specifies the  
getServices() call, it isn't just thrown into one of the  
implementation classes, as I implied here.

http://biomoby.open-bio.org/CVS_CONTENT/moby-live/Java/docs/API/org/ 
biomoby/shared/CentralDigest.html

-Mike