[MOBY-dev] Tiny modification in the behaviour of MOBY Central

[Mark Wilkinson]

Hi all,

Given that we now have Asynchronous services being registered in MOBY  
Central, an unpleasant behaviour has become apparent that really needs to  
be fixed (with no change in the API).

At the moment, calls to findService will automatically set the Category to  
"moby" if it is not specified in the request.  This was fine when there  
were only "moby" services in the registry, but now that we have  
"moby-async" services it would be better to remove this default and have  
the "Category" parameter behave like all other findService parameters -  
where leaving it out is the same as a wildcard (i.e. "all").

This is unlikely to require that anyone change their software since having  
the parameter there, or not, will still give you "moby" services as it  
always has, and moreover, the "moby-async" services are supposed to be  
backwards-compatible with "moby" synchronous services, so even if you  
discover "moby-async" services your software will be able to call them  
(perhaps with a timeout, however).

I'm going to make this change today.

Cheers!

M



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Mark Wilkinson
Assistant Professor, Dept. Medical Genetics
University of British Columbia
PI Bioinformatics
iCAPTURE Centre, St. Paul's Hospital

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