[MOBY-l] Reuest for small change to MOBY API Wiki

Paul Gordon gordonp at ucalgary.ca
Tue Jul 19 16:45:51 UTC 2005


The API currently says for the mobyData tag:

"The value if queryID is arbitrary, and is up to the Client program to 
fill in.  It should be unique to each mobyData in the message..."

It should probably say " The value *of* queryID is arbitrary...It *must* 
be unique to each mobyData in the message..."

then "...or missing or blank, in which case the message recipient can 
assign consecutive base-10 numerical IDs that can be used in responses"

Right now, if you don't have queryIDs in a request with multiple 
invocations, the only thing a server can do is return responses in the 
same order as the input.  Also, the API wording allows multiple 
invocations with the same name, which would make the responses 
impossible to differentiate automatically.

Hopefully this change isn't a big deal for anyone...




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