[MOBY-l] Output objects- problems interpreting the API

[Rebecca Ernst]

Hi Mark!

We have problems interpreting the BioMoby API for the output objects.

The thing is that we have a service that gets ONE input object and 
executes a freetext search over several databases. This service will 
eventually return more that one result.
We don't want to put the result into a collection object because the 
single objects don't build any entity.
We also can't give back more that one mobyData block because we only 
have one query ID and therefore only one queryID to give back.

The only solution we can think of is an object like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
       <moby:MOBY xmlns:moby="http://www.biomoby.org/moby">
          <moby:mobyContent>
              <moby:mobyData queryID='a1'>
                   <Simple articleName=''>
                      <Object namespace="Genbank/gi" id="163483"/>
                   </Simple>
                   <Simple articleName=''>
                      <Object namespace="Genbank/gi" id="163484"/>
                   </Simple>
                   <Simple articleName=''>
                      <Object namespace="Genbank/gi" id="163485"/>
                   </Simple>
              </moby:mobyData>
          </moby:mobyContent>
       </moby:MOBY>



would this be a legal object or do we have to use collection even if the 
objects don't build an entity ?


Cheers,
Rebecca


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Rebecca Ernst
MIPS, Inst. for Bioinformatics
GSF Research Center for Environment and Health
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85764 Neuherberg
fon: +49 89 3187 3583
email: Rebecca.Ernst at gsf.de