I am not sure if this relates at all to the getAllExperiments() question, but I thought it may help to see how we deal with retrieving expt. data from the gateway in UltraScan.
In the case of UltraScan we have the HPC output very much separated from the information of the results that are useful to the user. All data are getting tar.gzipped into a single archive which is transported back out and automatically parsed into a relational database that is part of the UltraScan software, and not a function of the gateway. The user will then access the database with secondary software and create a type of meta-analysis and visualization of the results that ultimately are then useful to the user. Having said this, while data are being calculated on the HPC resource, the user can monitor the process of the calculation by reviewing a queue viewer that shows all pending and active jobs and their actual state. This state include a lot of information keeping the user apprised of the state. This information is continually being sent via UDP from the HPC resource and monitored by a daemon on our backend LIMS server, again, this is semi-independent from the gateway software. This may be very specialized for our use case, but it is one example of how the problem can be solved. -borries On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:37:02AM -0400, Saminda Wijeratne wrote: > Thanks for identifying the problem Sachith. To be precise potentially there > are many subset variations of interested fields in the Experiment Data > which different gateways will be interested in the same usecase or > different usecase. We cannot scale by providing different functions for > each of these scenarios. > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Sachith Withana <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Almost all gateways have a requirement of retrieving the experiment > > summaries of all the experiments . The fields that are required differ > > based on the gateway. > > > > For Example: > > CIPRES requires : Experiment name and status > > Some gateways requires the Experiment name with the inputs only. > > > > But right now the getAllExperiments() method returns the list of all the > > Experiments with all the experiment related attributes filled ( the whole > > Experiment Model). > > > > It's costly to get the whole Experiment objects from the API rather than > > getting the required few attributes. > > > > Any suggestions on how we could achieve this? > > > > One suggestion would be to have a getAllExperiments method with the > > parameters as a list of required fields of the Experiments and return only > > those fields. > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Sachith Withana > >
