[seek-dev] Re: proposed gwsdl for Ecogrid registry service

[Matt Jones]

I too thought we had agreed earlier that the current query interface was 
sufficient.  I don't see why we would need yet another interface here. 
Do you have specific reasons why it should be different?

Matt

Jing Tao wrote:
> Hi, Bing:
> 
> It looks nice. But I have question about query service. To my 
> understanding, it can be done by query interface - query(QueryType 
> registryquery) and return a resultset. Do you think we need another 
> operation for it?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jing
> 
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Bing Zhu wrote:
> 
> 
>>Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:13:06 -0700
>>From: Bing Zhu <bzhu at sdsc.edu>
>>To: Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu>, Arcot Rajasekar <sekar at sdsc.edu>,
>>     Jing Tao <tao at nceas.ucsb.edu>, Rod Spears <rods at ku.edu>
>>Cc: Seek-Dev <seek-dev at ecoinformatics.org>
>>Subject: proposed gwsdl for Ecogrid registry service
>>
>>Matt, Raja, Jing, Rod:
>>
>>Attached is a proposed version of gwsdl for Ecogrid registry service.
>>
>>The toughest part is the query. Currently I put two operations,
>>
>>    GetAllServices(String sessionId) --> for getting all existing ecogrid
>>service
>>    QueryEcogridService(String sessionId, String queryField) -->
>>       the query field can be one of the ByName, ByType, ByUrl,
>>ByClassification and ByEndpoint.
>>
>>    Both operations return an array of Ecogrid service objects if
>>successful.
>>
>>The difficulty in designing query operations is that how flexible the query
>>operations are
>>and what we can expect user's requirements in querying Ecogrid registry
>>service.
>>Jing is the first customer for this service since he needs this in Kepler. I
>>wonder if the above
>>two operations fit his requirement.
>>
>>Another part is that I am not sure about what kinds of 'serviceType' we
>>are going to have. Currently it is just a string field.
>>
>>Let me know.
>>
>>Bing
>>
> 
> 

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