Re: [PyWrapper-devel] MOBY registries in PyWrapper

[Skofic A. M. (IPGRI) <m.s...@cg...>]

I will try it tomorrow, I also didn't know the address of the IRRI  
registry, but Martin told me to update Dashboard and in the new  
version you have a popup list with all the registries.

Will let you know.

Chao!

Milko

On Nov 19, 2006, at 20:11 , Javier de la Torre wrote:

> Hi Milko,
>
> Ok. I have implemented some sort of multiple biomoby registry  
> awareness in pywrapper.
>
> Now in the MOBY tab there are two new fields in the General Settings:
>
> "BioMOBY registry end point" and "BioMOBY registry Namespace".
>
> This let you choose the registry you want to use. This information  
> is saved as a general setting for this datasource. But preparing  
> the work for the future now when you register a service the  
> information of the end point and the namespace is stored in the  
> service on the config files, thats allowing the same service to be  
> register in multiple biomoby registries.
>
> When you click on register a service the configtool uses the  
> registry specify at this moment on the general settings, but when  
> you click on Deregister it uses the registry that was used for  
> registration.
>
> By default I have left configured the CENTRAL MOBY REGISTRY in  
> Canada. Milko, if you think more people are going to use the IRRI  
> one I can change it, give me the end point and ns and I change it  
> on the default config file so that new installations will appear  
> with this.
>
> There are some limitations still that I hope will not prevent us  
> from delopying right now:
>
> -Althought the config tool stores the info on the registry that was  
> used for registering a service, the interface will still not offer  
> you the possibility to register the same service in multiple  
> registries. If the config tool detects that a certain service has  
> been already registered in a registry is not offered as a potential  
> service. In the config files is still possible to configure the  
> same service in multiple registries, altought you would have to  
> manually register them using Dashboard or something like this...
>
> -The BMTTS file gives pywrapper a list of service templates, but it  
> does not tell you for what registry this templates are designed.  
> Different registries have different data types. So a service  
> template for the IRRI server does not necessarily have to work with  
> the Central one in Canada... Therefore is needed that the BMTTS  
> stores information about to which registry a certain template was  
> designed. Then the config tool should read this info and react  
> according to this...
>
> I have only tried it with the central moby registry in Canada, but  
> I suppose it should work with others. I havent tried because I dont  
> have the url of the IRRI registry and the getCoordinatesOfTaxon  
> service template will probably not work with the data types  
> there... Could you try Milko with yours?
>
>
> It is commited now.
>
> Javi.


Milko A. Skofic (IPGRI)
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