[MOBY-l] moby questions

[Martin Senger]

> 1) I tried calling a few methods using CentralImpl and I'm getting errors. 
>
   The method 'getServiceNames' works fine - you need just to use the 
correct BioMoby server - which is 
http://mobycentral.cbr.nrc.ca/cgi-bin/MOBY05/mobycentral.pl. This is the 
default server in CentralIMPl - but you need to update your CVS copy (I 
have changed the server name there about two days ago). If you wish to use 
a different (not the default) server you may say so in the CentralImpl 
contructor:
   Central central = new CentralImpl("http://my.moby.server/");

   Regarding the method 'getServiceWSDL', there seems to be a bug in Moby 
Central (mark, could you look at it pls?). The bug is that if you ask for 
a non-existing service name you get back a strange error (attached below). 
But if you ask for an existing service, you really get a WSDL. Try it with 
the only service that is current,y register there: 
   name: getGoTerm, authority: http://www.illuminae.com

   So this code was working fine for me:

import org.biomoby.shared.*;
import org.biomoby.client.*;
import java.util.*;

public class Q {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
	Central central = new CentralImpl();
	Map map = central.getServiceNames();
	Object[] names = map.keySet().toArray();
	for (int i=0;i<names.length;i++) {
	    System.err.println(names[i] + ":" + map.get(names[i]));
	}
	
System.err.println(central.getServiceWSDL("getGoTerm","http://www.illuminae.com"));
    }
}

   Regards,
   Martin

PS: For Mark - here is the strange error message:

bagheera:~/moby-live/Java> java MobyCmdLineClient -wsdl 
Servicetest4,http://mips.gsf.de/MOBY/Central -debug
WSDL for service 'Servicetest4,http://mips.gsf.de/MOBY/Central':
----------------
METHOD CALL: retrieveService
------------
<retrieveService><Service authURI="http://mips.gsf.de/MOBY/Central" 
serviceName="Servicetest4"/></retrieveService>

------------

===ERROR===
org.biomoby.shared.MobyException: ===ERROR===
Fault details:
[stackTrace: null]
Fault string: DBD::mysql::db do failed: Column 'contact_email' cannot be 
null at MOBY/authority.pm line 96.

Fault code:   {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server
Fault actor:  null
When calling:
        http://mobycentral.cbr.nrc.ca/cgi-bin/MOBY05/mobycentral.pl
===========

        at org.biomoby.client.CentralImpl.doCall(CentralImpl.java:158)
        at 
org.biomoby.client.CentralImpl.getServiceWSDL(CentralImpl.java:683)
        at MobyCmdLineClient.main(MobyCmdLineClient.java:171)
===========
bagheera:~/moby-live/Java>



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