Peter Mertens wrote: > Dear list, > > again i have another question for you. > > I have developed a normalization plugin for Base. > But now i want this normalized data back out of base to use it in > another application. I wanted to do this using the webservices, since > this is, according to me, the only way. > Now i have 2 problems: > First, the normalized data is not stored in a file but read into a > table. Is there a way to also store it in a file and attach this to the > raw bioassay.
It would be better to attach it to the bioassay set. In any case it is currently not possible. We are working with a solution for this and it will be released in 2.5. See http://base.thep.lu.se/ticket/721 for more information. > Second, the webservices are not able to handle this (downloading files > other then cel and cdf), up till now. I'm willing to edit the services > to make this service available. But then i need to get the location of > the file that stores the normalized data. The web services was developed as a proof of concept. It was never intended to be used in real applications. Most of the functionality is hard-coded and the design (or lack of design) is not something to continue building on. The 2.5 release will hopefully include some sort of web services in the main branch. We are currently discussing what functionality to include as part of the web services. From user feedback the possibility to access files that are part of an experiment seems to be an important feature so there is a good possibility that this will be included. > Any ideas to handle this? 1) Help us out with the web services implementation. But since details are a bit vague right now I don't know how to synchronize this with external developers. 2) Export the data from the database to a file. This can be done manually and fed to your application or by the use of a servlet and export plug-ins. See for example the code that MeV uses to download data directly from BASE: http://base.thep.lu.se/browser/trunk/src/clients/web/net/sf/basedb/clients/web/servlet/MevExport.java This code uses the BioAssaySetExporter in MeV mode. MeV uses the servlet like this: http://server.name/base2/plugins/org/tigr/microarray/mev/export?ID=<SessionID>&bioassayset_id=<id> where <SessionId> should be replaced with the current user's session ID and <id> with the id of the bioassayset to export data from. If your application can handle the MeV file format you can use the existing servlet, otherwise you need to create a new servlet and possible also a new export plug-in. 3) Well... wait for 2.5 and hope for the best... /Nicklas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ basedb-devel mailing list basedb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/basedb-devel
