[moby] [MOBY-dev] Re: Problems with Biomoby servicesin Taverna 1.2

[Mark Wilkinson]

Hi Martin, 

That is a 100% correct description of the status quo (I would just re-
word point c to say that the TYPE(s) of Simple(s) in the Collection are
registered, but not their number)

I have not been able to discern from any of the discussions what it is
that others are objecting to, so I am a bit lost...??  I don't know if
an API change is being requested, or if there is simply a widespread
mis-understanding of how Collections are to be used.  Your description,
however, is completely correct.

M

 
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 13:39 +0100, Martin Senger wrote:
> Hi all,
>    Catching up my email piles I wonder if someone can summarize if the
> discussion about collections in this thread brought any (planned) changes
> in the API (I am not talking now about how it is, or should be,
> implemented in Taverna, that's, imho, an another story).
>    My understanding is that (talking about one mobyData object):
>    a) Any Moby service can have more outputs. If so, all of them must be 
> registered. The number of such outputs must be fixed.
>    b) Any of these outputs can be of type either Simple or Collection.
>    c) If it is a Collection, this output can have one or more Simples in
> that Collection. Such Simples (and their number) are not individually
> registered.
> 
>    Has this vision been changed?
> 
>    Thanks,
>    Martin
> 
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