[MOBY] Re: [MOBY-dev] Progress on services and object question

[Mark Wilkinson]

Flipping over to the main discussion list again...

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 09:11, Ken Steube wrote:

> Those square brackets you use when you specify the types of inputs and
> outputs mean they are array references. You can give more than one in the
> brackets with commas between, thus many inputs of different types. That
> corresponds to having multiple <Object.../> entities in your $request
> input.

That is correct... however to my knowledge nobody has yet built a
service which takes more than one object as input so you are breaking
new ground if you try this

(more than one object as input to a single query, I mean... as opposed
to sending multiple queries in the same message)

If you do go forward with this, please let me know how it works out for
you - I may need to tweak MOBY::Central a bit to make it work properly
as it has not been thoroughly tested.


> BTW we could provide an iterator that returns all the values of the
> <Object.../> that any client would use. I'll try to come up with something
> useful unless it's already in the works.

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean.

M

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