[MOBY-dev] MOBY Central OK?

[Mark Wilkinson]

Can you send me the exact code fragment that is causing the problem (or  
even the search parameters for the findServices call).  I'll do a local  
call directly against the MOBY/Central.pm in debug mode and see if I can  
track down the problem.

M


On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:49:59 -0800, Frank Gibbons  
<francis_gibbons at hms.harvard.edu> wrote:

> At 03:17 PM 2/8/2006, you wrote:
>> The dreaded Error cubed, eh?
>>
>> I dunno... I have also been using it this morning, and haven't touched  
>> anything today except the gbrowse rendering modules, so...??
>>
>> Can you ping or traceroute to the machine?
>
> Actually, I've now diagnosed that it's _not_ a connectivity problem: for  
> example, MOBY::Client::Central->findServices() works fine. But when I  
> try to retrieve an individual service, I end up with:
>
> Empty String at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/MOBY/Central.pm line 2457
>
>   ERROR ERROR ERROR
>
> At first, I thought this was truly bizarre for a number of reasons, not  
> least of which is the fact that there is NO Perl 5.8.5 installed on my  
> machine, and even the perl executable I'm using (which is 5.8.6) is  
> running from my home directory, and therefore should have nothing at all  
> to do with /usr/lib.
>
> ....but then I realized that it's coming from the remote MOBY::Central,  
> not from my local MOBY::Client::Central. When I go to that line in  
> MOBY::Central.pm, I notice that it's in _retrieveService(), and the  
> die() propagates up from XML::LibXML being passed in an empty $payload.
>
> At least I think that's what's going on. What do you think?
>
> -Frank
>
> PhD, Computational Biologist,
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Mark Wilkinson
Assistant Professor, Dept. Medical Genetics
University of British Columbia
PI Bioinformatics
iCAPTURE Centre, St. Paul's Hospital