[MOBY-dev] Small extension to the MOBY Central API

[Mark Wilkinson]

Hi all,

I just committed a small extension to the MOBY Central API and the Perl  
Client code.  It makes it easier to reconstruct the Service ontology from  
a call to the registry API (rather than getting the raw RDF from a  
getResourceLocations call).

When you call retrieveServiceTypes on MOBY Central, the returned XML now  
has one additional element "ISA" in it:

<serviceTypes>
<serviceType name="serviceTypeName" lsid="urn:lsid...">
   <Description><![CDATA[free text description here]]></Description>
   <contactEmail>your at email.here</contactEmail>
   <authURI>authority.uri.here</authURI>
*****->>  <ISA lsid="urn:lsid...">parentTypeName</ISA>
</serviceType>
   ...
   ...
</serviceTypes>


ISA provides the immediate parent of a Service ontology term (or is blank  
if you're at the root node).  The lsid attribute provides the lsid of that  
parent term (or is blank).  the ISA element is always provided.

Hopefully that will be useful to others, and hopefully wont break anyone!  
...it shouldn't... it's just one extra tag, the rest of the message is  
unchanged.

Please alert me if this breaks anything and I'll roll-back.  All tests  
pass from the Perl side.  Eddie, can you check the Java side?

M



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Mark Wilkinson
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University of British Columbia
PI Bioinformatics
iCAPTURE Centre, St. Paul's Hospital
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