[Plastic-devs] VOQuest + PLASTIC
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From: Inaki O. <Ina...@sc...> - 2006-05-09 10:27:01
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Hi there guys
My name is Inaki Ortiz and I am currently developing VOQuest, a
PROTOTYPE tool to query and access VO services implementing source
catalog data model. The idea is to make use of several VO standards l=
ike
ADQL and VOTable to interconnect services. Besides that, we aim to ma=
ke
use of PLASTIC to relegate the usage of existing functionalities to t=
he
top performers on each field, like Topcat and Aladin, for example. We=
do
not intend to re-invent the wheel, and that's why I find PLASTIC a gr=
eat
idea and a pretty neat implementation. So congratulations to you all,
first.
Now... some problems :-(
>From VOQuest we can actually send a VOTable to Topcat through the 'l=
oad'
message by just using one parameter. Nonetheless,the documentation
states that two parameters are needed
http://plastic.sourceforge.net/coremessages.html
On the other hand, Aladin supports the two parameters invocation. So =
at
the end I have to hard-code the invocations based on which service
VOQuest is calling to. I would like to get rid of it and call both
services in the same way so I would like to ask if a quick patch on
Topcat is possible and feasible. If not... is there any other
alternative? Please be aware that VOQuest has the VOTables loaded int=
o
memory and, as we do not intend to have access to the end user's loca=
l
file system, we can just make use of the 'load' message and not
'loadFromURL'.
Many thanks in advance and congratulations for your excellent work.
I=F1aki Ortiz
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I=F1aki Ortiz de Landaluze
Software Engineer
ESA/ESAC
European Space Agency / European Space Astronomy Centre=20
P.O. Box 50727, 28080 Madrid - Spain
Tel: +34 91 813 13 67
E-mail : Ina...@es...
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