[MOBY-dev] [moby] Re: v.v. the Object Ontology curation

[Mark Wilkinson]

Oh dear... I forgot about the LSID's...  Ouch! that aspect of the LSID
specification really is a painful one for database curators!

This is actually going to be quite problematic.  The edit that I just
did was not allowed by the API (which is why I had to do it at the
database level).  The reason it is not allowed is that service instances
use the LSID of their input/output objects as the primary key in the
database, so if we update the LSID of every Object that I just modified,
then all of those service registrations are broken and would also have
to be updated by hand... and so on for each child object, and each
service that uses a child object.

Can I get a "bye" on doing these LSID updates in this case?  please??
It really should be a transparent change v.v. the functionality of the
services and the XML representation of the objects.

I guess *technically*, since our LSIDs do not resolve by getData, only
by getMetadata, we haven't really broken the LSID specification by not
updating the version number in this case - we've broken it "in spirit",
but not "in practice".

   >>sigh<< 

M





On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 17:21 +0100, Martin Senger wrote:
> > Dashboard users - don't forget to reload the ontology from source.
> >
>    Yes. Just a reminder: Now when the registry supports fully LSIDs with
> versions, you do not need to 'reload' but should be sufficient to
> 'update' - just use a different button (this should update only those data
> types that were really changed, so it is faster than reload).
> 
>    Cheers,
>    Martin
> 
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