Issue 3555: Precise definition needed (biomolecular-ftf) Source: Japan Biological Informatics Consortium (Mr. Martin Senger, martin.senger@gmail.com) Nature: Uncategorized Issue Severity: Summary: The document only indicates (by examples) how to code CORBA::TypeCodes into stringified form used in metadata. We need much precise definition how to do it and what to expect in 'type' tag of metadata. Suggestion: a) to investigate if such "rules" already exist in OMG worlds (such as XMI), then clarify it in our document. b) we may find that for sequences of IDL types defined in DsLSRBioObjects module we will need to add also several sequence<...> constructs in our spec (fortunately we have already quite a lot there); this would be needed for being able to specify a "repetitive" argument - when we do not know how many occurences it can have. Resolution: split into issues 3933 and 3934 Revised Text: Actions taken: April 11, 2000: received issue October 4, 2000: split into separate issues..closed May 24, 2001: closed issue Discussion: End of Annotations:===== Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:53:32 +0100 (GMT) From: Martin Senger To: Juergen Boldt cc: biomolecular-ftf@omg.org Subject: Re: several possible "issues" In-Reply-To: <38F2C7F5.518CB9A3@netgenics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-UIDL: 2(#"!EOS!!7j5e9_~"e9 Juergen, Here are some issues we are discussing in the FTF. I think that they are ready to be issued as issues :-). Could you please do it? Most of them are just changes in the spec document and I do not know if they should be separated or sent together. I am refering to the lifesci/99-12-01. [ This one surely is worth to be a separate issue - even if the others go together. ] The document only indicates (by examples) how to code CORBA::TypeCodes into stringified form used in metadata. We need much precise definition how to do it and what to expect in 'type' tag of metadata. Suggestion: a) to investigate if such "rules" already exist in OMG worlds (such as XMI), then clarify it in our document. b) we may find that for sequences of IDL types defined in DsLSRBioObjects module we will need to add also several sequence<...> constructs in our spec (fortunately we have already quite a lot there); this would be needed for being able to specify a "repetitive" argument - when we do not know how many occurences it can have. Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:07:25 +0100 (BST) From: Martin Senger To: Juergen Boldt cc: BSA FTF Subject: issue 3555 - request for splitting In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000919095632.00d20590@emerald.omg.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-UIDL: f<6!!iGad9U[#"!j%D!! Dear Juergen, could you please close the issue 3555 and create instead two new issues with the following summary: First issue - How to stringified CORBA TypeCodes ================================================ Summary: We need precise definition how to express CORBA TypeCode as a string which is needed for using it in metadata attribute "type" in input/output property spec. I am going to make a proposal on that when this issue gets new number. Second issue - How to specify "repetitive" inputs ================================================= Summary: We need to be able to send variable number of inputs of the same name and type to an analysis (variable because we may not know in advance how many "repetitions" will be sent by a client). I am going to make a proposal (based on mail discussion with Mike Dickson and others) when this issue gets new number. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Senger EMBL Outstation - Hinxton Senger@EBI.ac.uk European Bioinformatics Institute Phone: (+44) 1223 494636 Wellcome Trust Genome Campus (Switchboard: 494444) Hinxton Fax : (+44) 1223 494468 Cambridge CB10 1SD United Kingdom http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~senger