[MOBY-dev] parseMobyData

[Pieter Neerincx]

Hi all,

On 2-Nov-2005, at 1:32 PM, Rebecca Ernst wrote:

> Hi Eddie!
>
> I had another look into Taverna to see if our workflows now run  
> correctly but found two problems of parseMobyData.
> The first problem is that parseMobyData can't deal with collections  
> (it never could) the second is that it also can't deal with the new  
> object stucture (e.g. a string object containing a string now) as  
> it only checks the first layer content and never goes into the  
> additional string.

Well as far as I know it never did that either. It's a much bigger  
problem. It will not decompose any multi-layered objects. Currently  
it's easy to compile a big object from multiple smaller objects. If  
you add a complex object to your workflow Taverna will add all the  
individual parts and create the links between them. But decomposing  
the big object is something else. The info about the object's  
relationships are stored in the ontology, so theoretically it should  
be possible to generate proccessors to decompose the big ones, but I  
guess that is more like a feature request then a bug :). Currently I  
create custom services to decompose big objects again as a  
workaround, but some automated object decomposition in taverna would  
be really cool...

Cheers,

Pieter

> Do you know of these problems and if so - are there any plans for  
> fixing it?
>
> Cheers,
> Rebecca
>
>
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