[MOBY-dev] Re: about service deregistation once again (a bug?)

[Mark Wilkinson]

b.t.w. Martin, I gave a Taverna demo today at the SAB meeting.  There is 
general agreement among the bioinformatics platform members (Genome 
Canada) that we should adopt Taverna as our recommended MOBY/Emboss 
client :-)  Yay!

M


Martin Senger wrote:

>>>Nina explained that the agent would not go to a service that had been
>>>registered without signatureURL, neither to a service that had been
>>>registered with an empty signatureURL tag (such as
>>><signatureURL></signatureURL>).
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Aren't these two statements identical?
>>
>>    
>>
>   C'mon, of course, they are not.
>   I can send a registration without any signatureURL tag, at all, or I
>can send it with <signatureURL></signatureURL>.
>   However, it does not matter anymore, see below...
> 
>  
>
>>>However, the old-fashioned deregistration call will be rejected for
>>>services that had been registered with an empty signatureURL, telling you
>>>that the agent would take care about it. Which would not - see paragraph
>>>above.
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Unless it is not functioning correctly, the old fashioned deregisration 
>>call WILL NOT be rejected for services that have been registered with an 
>>empty signature URL.  Is that the bug you are reporting?
>>
>>    
>>
>   Yes, it was... But not anymore... the bug was in my code that had not
>properly printed signatureURL (so I thought that it was not there). Sorry
>for that, it happens (at least one good output from this email exchange is
>that I found that signatureURL was missing in the documentation of the
>Service List Response Object - could you add it there?).
>
>   Cheers,
>   Martin
>
>PS. I wonder if you got my email asking about RDF output...? (Perhaps it
>was missed under the peaks of Rockies :-))
>M.
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