[MOBY-l] Processing MOBY responses: MOBYSHoundGetGenBankff as an example

[Frank Gibbons]

Hi,

Let me add to my previous comment, to make it more specific:

         If I'm trying to process a request, the first thing I do is call 
"getInputs( <raw_XML_here>)". What is the analogue of that for handling the 
service's response to a request? I'm just looking for the sequence of 
function calls, and the names of the API functions that I should be using.

Thanks,

-Frank

At 05:03 PM 4/8/2004, you wrote:
>One topic which I'm having great difficulty with, and for which I can find 
>no obvious examples, is how to parse the response from a service. As was 
>discussed at the MOBY meeting in CSHL,  there's a somewhat different 
>syntax for queries and responses. The examples I have found describe how 
>to provide a service (how to handle incoming requests). None talks about 
>how to parse incoming responses.
>
>Now perhaps I'm just being really dense here: the difference really 
>couldn't be that big. I've tried running your MOBYSHoundGetGetBankff with 
>NCBI_gi:431260 as the query, I get back a nice fat response. But I'm 
>really having difficulty extracting the information. Do you (or anyone 
>else on the list) have an example you could post, showing how to deal with 
>the response from a query? Maybe there are examples out there already - if 
>so, I'd really appreciate someone pointing them out to me.
>
>Thanks for that, and thanks to yourself and the other CSHL::MOBYers for a 
>great introduction to things MOBY.

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