[MOBY-dev] Notes from working group 'B'

[Martin Senger]

I am sorry that I am late in this discussion but I was away for more than 
a week. Also I am reading from the back - so I may be barking on alredy 
non-existing tree...

> > Yes! That would make life much easier. I am currently testing some 
> > stuff where I have an async service that has an additional help call. 
> > This service is a wrapper for a commandline tool. If you call the 
> > service with an empty Moby object it returns an object 
> > "ServiceOptions" which HASA String that contains the info which you 
> > would normally get form --help on the commandline along with some info 
> > about which databases are available and when they were updated. 
> > Putting this kind of info in the service signature would make more 
> > sense though.
>
   I agree that such stuff belongs to metadata. Because if your service
returns different output data for different input values (e.g.  
ServiceOptions for an empty input) - you will have trouble to make such
service into workflows. This is why Moby is good: it limits you so the
services can be more interoperable. Let's keep it like that.

   Martin

-- 
Martin Senger

EMBL Outstation - Hinxton                Senger at EBI.ac.uk     
European Bioinformatics Institute        Phone: (+44) 1223 494636      
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus             (Switchboard:     494444)
Hinxton                                  Fax  : (+44) 1223 494468
Cambridge CB10 1SD
United Kingdom                           http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~senger