[DAS2] working das validator

[Chervitz, Steve]

Andrew,

Nice work on the web interface to the validator. Before you dive back into
the spec, could you troubleshoot these 500 errors I'm getting on your
server?

URL: http://das.biopackages.net/das/genome

With the "guess" radio button I get:

   500 Internal error
   ....
   TypeError: GuessFromHeader() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)

With any other radio button I get:

   500 Internal error
   ....
   AttributeError: BodyError instance has no attribute 'args'

Steve

> From: Andrew Dalke <dalke at dalkescientific.com>
> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 02:55:02 -0700
> To: DAS/2 <das2 at portal.open-bio.org>
> Subject: [DAS2] working das validator
> 
> I have a running validator at
> 
> http://cgi.biodas.org:8080/
> 
> 
> I've only tested it with SOURCES document but there's little
> that would fail with the others.
> 
> I had planned to get this up a couple days ago but I've been
> distracted learning more about Javascript and a couple of Javascript
> libraries.  I used Mochikit to make the interactivity you see
> there, and I have some ideas about how to use Dojo -- but not
> for a couple of weeks.
> 
> The code goes through the following validation steps:
> 
>   - TODO - handle if the URL is not fetchable and handle timeouts
>   - check that the content-type agrees with the document type
>   - check that it's well-formed XML; report error where not
>   - check that the root element matches the document type
>   - check that it passed the Relax-NG validation;
>   - report the id and href fields which are empty strings
>   - report if any date fields are not iso dates
> 
> There are many more checks I could add.  They are easy now
> that the scaffold is there.
> 
> I'm going to work on the next draft now.
> 
> After that I'll get back to the validator.  I want to add
> hyperlinks on fields which are links, and I have an idea of
> how to add a "SEARCH" button next to the query urls which
> creates a popup where you can fill in the different fields
> before doing the search.
> 
> Budget-wise I'm not sure how to charge the last few days
> of work as it was a "wouldn't it be neat if" project rather
> than something really needed.  It is neat though ...
> 
> Andrew
> dalke at dalkescientific.com
> 
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