[MOBY-dev] an easy way to see the input/outputsizewhenusingjMoby?

[Edward Kawas]

Hi Ivan,

Thanks for clarifying. I don’t know anything off the top of my head, but I
will think about it.

Eddie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: moby-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org [mailto:moby-dev-
> bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Iván Párraga García
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:22 AM
> To: Core developer announcements
> Subject: Re: [MOBY-dev] an easy way to see the
> input/outputsizewhenusingjMoby?
> 
> Ok, I think the misunderstanding was because the use of the word
> "register"; I should have said something like "log" or "register
> statistics at our servers". It could seem that I was trying to
> "register" something at moby-central... I chose an ambiguous word, sorry.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> Iván Párraga García
> Computer Scientist
> Molecular Modelling & Bioinformatics Unit
> INB - Instituto Nacional de Bioinformática
> Josep Samitier 1-5
> 08028 Barcelona
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> 
> 
> Iván Párraga García escribió:
> > I'll try to explain better...
> >
> > We're registering info for statistical purposes. Things like time of
> > execution, status at the end, timestamps, etc. One thing that we want to
> > store is how big are the moby input objects (in the service call
> > request) and the same for the response. For example, if one service is
> > taking a Fasta as input, I want to know how many bytes big is this
> > Fasta. I don't mind measuring the "exact" size of the input, I want to
> > retrieve an unit that is proportional to the input size; in other words
> > the number of characters of the XML moby request corresponding to this
> > Fasta object is a good measurement, but it would be also a good
> > measurement the real size in bytes... I want a measurement good enough
> > to decide if two different calls have different input/ouput sizes and in
> > what proportion.
> >
> > However, the best would be to have a realistic size in bytes but it's
> > not a real need.
> >
> > In fact, now I'm doing something similiar to this:
> >
> > MobyJob request...
> > MobyJob response...
> >
> > request.format(0).length();
> > response.format(0).length();
> >
> > The main problem of this is that I'm introducing an unnecessary overhead
> > to parse the request/response as an String (and this can be a problem
> > for huge requests/responses).
> >
> > Have I explained myself better?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > Iván Párraga García
> > Computer Scientist
> > Molecular Modelling & Bioinformatics Unit
> > INB - Instituto Nacional de Bioinformática
> > Josep Samitier 1-5
> > 08028 Barcelona
> > Spain
> > tel.: +34 93 403 71 55
> > fax.: +34 93 403 71 57
> > e-mail: ivanp at mmb.pcb.ub.es
> > group page: http://mmb.pcb.ub.es
> > pgp key: http://mmb.pcb.ub.es/~ivanp/pubkey.asc
> > ------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> > Edward Kawas escribió:
> >
> >> Hi Ivan,
> >>
> >> I don’t really understand the problem. Do you think that you could give
> a
> >> concrete example or provide further information?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Eddie
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: moby-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org [mailto:moby-dev-
> >>> bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Iván Párraga García
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 8:22 AM
> >>> To: Core developer announcements
> >>> Subject: [MOBY-dev] an easy way to see the input/output size when
> >>> usingjMoby?
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to register the input size of the requests to my moby
> services
> >>> (and the same for results) when I'm using jMoby. At the moment I have
> a
> >>> provisional work-around but I was wondering if there is a nice way to
> do
> >>> it with the jMoby classes.
> >>>
> >>> I don't need byte precission (it's not important for me to register
> the
> >>> size of all the SOAP stuff, for example); I need a correlated
> >>> measurement with the input/output (for example the size of the
> >>> input/output objects in XML ir right).
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> ------------------------------------------------
> >>> Iván Párraga García
> >>> Computer Scientist
> >>> Molecular Modelling & Bioinformatics Unit
> >>> INB - Instituto Nacional de Bioinformática
> >>> Josep Samitier 1-5
> >>> 08028 Barcelona
> >>> Spain
> >>> tel.: +34 93 403 71 55
> >>> fax.: +34 93 403 71 57
> >>> e-mail: ivanp at mmb.pcb.ub.es
> >>> group page: http://mmb.pcb.ub.es
> >>> pgp key: http://mmb.pcb.ub.es/~ivanp/pubkey.asc
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