Carl Mäsak wrote:
> I've now come far enough with my BASE2 web services client in
> Bioclipse that I dare show it to the eventual end user. Due to this, I
> have a couple of more specific questions:
> 
> * How do I get the name of a data file contained in a RawBioAssay?

You can't with the current web services implementation. It should not be 
hard to add support for it though. Contributions are welcome.

> 
> * Somewhat relatedly, does the data model support several files of the
> same type in one RawBioAssay? I see no examples of this through the
> web client, and the signature of `downloadRawDataByType` suggests that
> it doesn't, but my end user mentioned that one sometimes wants to
> store, say, several .CEL files in one RawBioAssay.

No. You can only have one file of each type. What is the use case for 
having more than one CEL file? A raw bioassay represents a SINGLE data set.

> * Also, is there a way to get information about the .cdf files through
> WS? They don't seem to be among the results of `getDataFileTypes`.

Yes, the CDF file is part of the array design so you have to fetch that 
first.

/Nicklas

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