[MOBY-l] Services accepting multiple inputs

[Andreas Groscurth]

Ola Spjuth wrote:
> I suppose it would be possible to set up another version of the 
> service that accepted a MobyDataComposite containing an arbitrary 
> number of wrapped MobyDataObject, and delivers a MobyDataComposite as 
> output, containing an arbitrary number of objects? 
no - because MobyDataComposite is the represent of complex data types, 
NOT for an arbtrary number of inputs.

A service can accept one MobyDataObject (a single Object), one 
MobyDataComposite (a single complex type, like AminoAcidSequence) or 
more of them or a combination of them... but its not for using a 
collection of intputs just because it could be convenient to call a 
service with several different inputs !

just use for each input object a differnent cal - that would mobyrequest 
have also to do... becaus a service which defines one input can not take 
more inputs...

> This means you need 2 different services to accommodate for the case 
> of one input object and another for many inputs, and the situation is 
> left to service providers and not handled by Moby. Is this a correct 
> observation?
Why 2 different services ? Either your service takes e.g. one GI to do 
something, or takes a collection... Of course its up to the service 
provider to know what his services does and therefore to offer one of 
either possibilities. And if the services takes a collection of input - 
of course you can set more than one input (like 3 GIs), BUT if the 
service is registered with only one input - you have to stick to its rules.

Best
andreas
>
> On Apr 3, 2008, at 10:47 , Andreas Groscurth wrote:
>
>
>> [snip]
>> maybe there is a way, as Mark apparently indicates, but i cant see 
>> how shall work....
>>
>
> Yes, I am also curious to hear about that!
>
> Cheers,
>
>    .../Ola
>