[MOBY-dev] [MOBY-l] updating MOBY Central with input/outputarticleNames

[Edward Kawas]

Hi Pieter,

If you update your version of Taverna, you no longer have to fill in the article
name as it is filled in automatically.

Eddie
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: moby-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org 
> [mailto:moby-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of 
> Pieter Neerincx
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:56 AM
> To: mobydev
> Subject: Re: [MOBY-dev] [MOBY-l] updating MOBY Central with 
> input/outputarticleNames
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> On 25-Apr-2006, at 4:53 PM, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A few months ago the spec for service registration was 
> tightened such 
> > that all inputs and outputs require an articleName.  This is now 
> > required also in Taverna workflows, and as such, many 
> "illegitimate" 
> > services currently in the registry will not function with 
> Taverna even 
> > though they are perfectly functional in reality.
> >
> > Given that these services are not looking for an 
> articleName, it will 
> > do no harm to them if one were added.  Thus the fastest way 
> to bring 
> > all service registrations back into compliance with the API 
> would be 
> > for me to manipulate the MOBY Central database directly and add 
> > "dummy"
> > articleNames
> > ("input", "output") to all inputs and outputs that are 
> currently un- 
> > named.
> >
> > Would this bother anyone?
> 
> It's fine with me. Actually I already registered most of my 
> services to use "input" and "output" as dummy articleNames to 
> make sure they worked in Taverna :). I was wondering the 
> following though. Maybe this is a question for Eddie. If
> * articleName attributes are required for input and output 
> articles and
> * every service is registered with certain articleNames for 
> their inputs and outputs,
> * wouldn't it be possible to let Taverna fill in those 
> articleName attributes automatically?
> 
> Currently I have to fill them in manually all the time and 
> that is a bit boring :(. Furthermore I already spent quite a 
> bit of time staring at XML wondering why something didn't 
> work ... and in the end it was a missing articleName or one 
> with a typo.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pi
> 
> > Please let me know ASAP.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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