[MOBY-dev] Request for Java web service implementation

[Andreas Groscurth]

Hi all,

I would like to make a request about the implementation of Biomoby java 
web services and i would like to have a discussion about it.

Actually there are two points I like to mention.

1. If a service requires a collection as output the automatic generated 
skeleton accepts only an array of objects. Why does it not allow to pass 
a collection ? As usally the web service will produce a collection and 
then has to retransform it into an array to pass it to the skeleton it 
would be way more convienent and understandable to pass the collection 
directly.

Would it be possible to change the automatic generation of the skeleton 
so that it accepts a collection ?

So my suggestion would be to offer an additional method in the skeleton 
which accepts a collection and either to transform there the collection 
into an array or adding a new methods in MobyJob which accepts a 
collection and then sets the data (basically does the same as 
setDataSet(MobyObject[] data, String name, int index) only with a 
collection as parameter).

2. If a datatype has a String as attribute the generated moby classes 
offers the possibilty for the set method to pass the String or the 
MobyString. For any other primitives this is not the case. So if a 
datatype has an Integer as attribute there is only the set method which 
accepts the MobyInteger, but not Integer itself.

Is there a reason for that ? because in this way it looks 
inconsequent.... I would suggest to either always accept only the 
Mobyxxx primitive or to add additional methods which also accepts the 
java equivalent...

Thanks for the answers
Andreas


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