[MOBY-dev] Latest update for the bioMoby Python API

[Rebecca Ernst]

Hi Yan!

I've updated the cvs and indeed the service that was set up by Andreas 
(and never worked before in the gbrowse) worked perfectly fine!

Thanks,
Rebecca



ywong at infobiogen.fr wrote:

>Hi,
>  I've put the new bioMoby Python API (v0.8) on the CVS, Normally,
>services that use this version should have no problem to deal with
>GBrowse_moby (it return an XML string instead of a body object...) There
>will be services built on top of this API before the end of the week so
>you'll be able to see if there is any problems.
>
>  For the cosmetic changes, now you can serialize/deserialize objects that
>doesn't have any toMoby or fromMoby method (thanks to dynamic class
>building a special Python feature :p) for example, if an object is not
>in the mobyDataTypes module or in the ontology, it will create a class
>corresponding to the XML, however, only public attributes are able to be
>serialized/deserialized (for methods, maybe it would be useful to link
>it with other webservices...)
>
>  I've updated the documentation about it and added an example of how to
>build database aware bioMoby webservices
>Python/tutorials/webservices/bioMoby-Oracle.py
>(only select sql statement but i think it can be also used for update sql
>statement).
>
>  Services now can be treated as threads (this enable the query of
>different services at the same time) it works like this:
>
>  client=Client()
>  serviceList=client.findService(ServiceQuery(inputObject=...)
>
>  for aService in serviceList:
>      aService.start(aMobyContentObject)
>      aService.join()
>
>  for aService in serviceList:
>      if hasattr(self, 'results'):
>          #results are retrieved in the results attributes
>          aService.results
>  etc..
>
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