Re: [Plastic-devs] Passing VOEvents via Plastic

[Mark T. <m.b...@br...>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Alasdair Allan wrote:

> I'd like to return to the topic of passing voevent messages to  
> Plastic apps as an entity, rather than first parsing the messages,  
> extracting the co-ordinates, and passing those instead...
> 
> I'd therefore like to introduce/propose
> 
> void ivo://votech.org/voevent/handleEvent( String xmlMessage )
> 
> so that a Plastic aware display tool could for instance parse the  
> message and plot the data products, e.g. a finding chart with the  
> event RA&Dec marked along with an appropriate error circle taken from  
> the message, or a broker could take the message and pass it into the  
> emerging VOEventNet.
> 
> Are there any real objections to this? Discussion? Anyone?

Sounds fine to me.  Obviously a listener that was going to do 
something with such a message would need to be VOEvent-aware 
(contain a VOEvent message parser) well as PLASTIC-aware.  
Do you have particular applications in mind for this?  I'm not 
really up on what's what in VOEvent.

Mark

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