From m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk  Tue Jul  1 10:54:50 2003
From: m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk (Mark Taylor)
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:54:50 +0100 (BST)
Subject: New Web Service at CDS
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307011832060.2413-100000@andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk>

> A UCD resolver is now available as a Web Service at CDS. 
> See http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cdsws.gml for more details and an example 
> of use. 

Another web service which would be useful is provision of a list of all
the currently-defined UCDs (with descriptions). 

<a href="http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/">TOPCAT</a>, 
a table-editing tool I am developing, has cause to ask the user to 
select a UCD with which to label a column from a list of all known UCDs.
I currently construct this list by screen-scraping the page at
<a href="http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/UCDs">http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/UCDs</a>,
which is downloaded and stored at build time.
It could be good however to be able to retrieve and parse such a list
at run time, so that recently-defined UCDs are available even when
an old version of the tool is being used.

I'm not a SOAP expert so I'm not sure what would be the best way to
supply the result of such a query, but I guess it could be a simple
XML document, perhaps reflecting the hierarchical nature of the list,
something like:

   <ucd id="AT" description="Atomic Data">
     <ucd id="AT_COLL" description="Atomic Collisional Quantities">
       <ucd id="AT_COLL_EXCIT-RATE" description="Collisional Excitation Rate"/>
       <ucd id="AT_COLL_STRENGTH" description="Collisional Strength"/>
     </ucd>
     <ucd id="AT_CONFIG" description="Electronic Configuration"/>
       ...
     </ucd>
   </ucd>
   <ucd id="CLASS" description="Various Classification Descriptors"/>
     ...

you get the idea.  Even something as simple as a flat tab-separated list
would be OK though, as long as the endpoint and format could be 
relied upon.

Mark

-- 
Mark Taylor    Starlink Programmer    Physics,  Bristol University, UK
m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk  0117 928 8776  http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/


From schaaff at newb6.u-strasbg.fr  Thu Jul 17 08:04:28 2003
From: schaaff at newb6.u-strasbg.fr (Andre Schaaff)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:04:28 +0200
Subject: New Web Service at CDS
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307011832060.2413-100000@andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <3F16BAFC.52C3B543@astro.u-strasbg.fr>

Hello,

I have implemented a Web Service which is near what you suggest.

If you want to use a Web Service without special soap client, you can use the useful following
online tool :

How to do it : replace just the default URL with the below URL and push the Retrieve button

The URL to access to the Web Service :
http://cdsws.u-strasbg.fr/axis/UCDList.jws?wsdl

The online tool :
http://www.soapclient.com/soaptest.html

Regards,

Andr?

P.S. : the online tool may not work with too old browsers

Mark Taylor wrote:

> > A UCD resolver is now available as a Web Service at CDS.
> > See http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cdsws.gml for more details and an example
> > of use.
>
> Another web service which would be useful is provision of a list of all
> the currently-defined UCDs (with descriptions).
>
> <a href="http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/">TOPCAT</a>,
> a table-editing tool I am developing, has cause to ask the user to
> select a UCD with which to label a column from a list of all known UCDs.
> I currently construct this list by screen-scraping the page at
> <a href="http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/UCDs">http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/UCDs</a>,
> which is downloaded and stored at build time.
> It could be good however to be able to retrieve and parse such a list
> at run time, so that recently-defined UCDs are available even when
> an old version of the tool is being used.
>
> I'm not a SOAP expert so I'm not sure what would be the best way to
> supply the result of such a query, but I guess it could be a simple
> XML document, perhaps reflecting the hierarchical nature of the list,
> something like:
>
>    <ucd id="AT" description="Atomic Data">
>      <ucd id="AT_COLL" description="Atomic Collisional Quantities">
>        <ucd id="AT_COLL_EXCIT-RATE" description="Collisional Excitation Rate"/>
>        <ucd id="AT_COLL_STRENGTH" description="Collisional Strength"/>
>      </ucd>
>      <ucd id="AT_CONFIG" description="Electronic Configuration"/>
>        ...
>      </ucd>
>    </ucd>
>    <ucd id="CLASS" description="Various Classification Descriptors"/>
>      ...
>
> you get the idea.  Even something as simple as a flat tab-separated list
> would be OK though, as long as the endpoint and format could be
> relied upon.
>
> Mark
>
> --
> Mark Taylor    Starlink Programmer    Physics,  Bristol University, UK
> m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk  0117 928 8776  http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/
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From m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk  Tue Jul  1 10:54:50 2003
From: m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk (Mark Taylor)
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:54:50 +0100 (BST)
Subject: New Web Service at CDS
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307011832060.2413-100000@andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk>

> A UCD resolver is now available as a Web Service at CDS. 
> See http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cdsws.gml for more details and an example 
> of use. 

Another web service which would be useful is provision of a list of all
the currently-defined UCDs (with descriptions). 

<a href="http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/">TOPCAT</a>, 
a table-editing tool I am developing, has cause to ask the user to 
select a UCD with which to label a column from a list of all known UCDs.
I currently construct this list by screen-scraping the page at
<a href="http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/UCDs">http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/UCDs</a>,
which is downloaded and stored at build time.
It could be good however to be able to retrieve and parse such a list
at run time, so that recently-defined UCDs are available even when
an old version of the tool is being used.

I'm not a SOAP expert so I'm not sure what would be the best way to
supply the result of such a query, but I guess it could be a simple
XML document, perhaps reflecting the hierarchical nature of the list,
something like:

   <ucd id="AT" description="Atomic Data">
     <ucd id="AT_COLL" description="Atomic Collisional Quantities">
       <ucd id="AT_COLL_EXCIT-RATE" description="Collisional Excitation Rate"/>
       <ucd id="AT_COLL_STRENGTH" description="Collisional Strength"/>
     </ucd>
     <ucd id="AT_CONFIG" description="Electronic Configuration"/>
       ...
     </ucd>
   </ucd>
   <ucd id="CLASS" description="Various Classification Descriptors"/>
     ...

you get the idea.  Even something as simple as a flat tab-separated list
would be OK though, as long as the endpoint and format could be 
relied upon.

Mark

-- 
Mark Taylor    Starlink Programmer    Physics,  Bristol University, UK
m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk  0117 928 8776  http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/


From schaaff at newb6.u-strasbg.fr  Thu Jul 17 08:04:28 2003
From: schaaff at newb6.u-strasbg.fr (Andre Schaaff)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:04:28 +0200
Subject: New Web Service at CDS
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307011832060.2413-100000@andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <3F16BAFC.52C3B543@astro.u-strasbg.fr>

Hello,

I have implemented a Web Service which is near what you suggest.

If you want to use a Web Service without special soap client, you can use the useful following
online tool :

How to do it : replace just the default URL with the below URL and push the Retrieve button

The URL to access to the Web Service :
http://cdsws.u-strasbg.fr/axis/UCDList.jws?wsdl

The online tool :
http://www.soapclient.com/soaptest.html

Regards,

Andr?

P.S. : the online tool may not work with too old browsers

Mark Taylor wrote:

> > A UCD resolver is now available as a Web Service at CDS.
> > See http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cdsws.gml for more details and an example
> > of use.
>
> Another web service which would be useful is provision of a list of all
> the currently-defined UCDs (with descriptions).
>
> <a href="http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/">TOPCAT</a>,
> a table-editing tool I am developing, has cause to ask the user to
> select a UCD with which to label a column from a list of all known UCDs.
> I currently construct this list by screen-scraping the page at
> <a href="http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/UCDs">http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/UCDs</a>,
> which is downloaded and stored at build time.
> It could be good however to be able to retrieve and parse such a list
> at run time, so that recently-defined UCDs are available even when
> an old version of the tool is being used.
>
> I'm not a SOAP expert so I'm not sure what would be the best way to
> supply the result of such a query, but I guess it could be a simple
> XML document, perhaps reflecting the hierarchical nature of the list,
> something like:
>
>    <ucd id="AT" description="Atomic Data">
>      <ucd id="AT_COLL" description="Atomic Collisional Quantities">
>        <ucd id="AT_COLL_EXCIT-RATE" description="Collisional Excitation Rate"/>
>        <ucd id="AT_COLL_STRENGTH" description="Collisional Strength"/>
>      </ucd>
>      <ucd id="AT_CONFIG" description="Electronic Configuration"/>
>        ...
>      </ucd>
>    </ucd>
>    <ucd id="CLASS" description="Various Classification Descriptors"/>
>      ...
>
> you get the idea.  Even something as simple as a flat tab-separated list
> would be OK though, as long as the endpoint and format could be
> relied upon.
>
> Mark
>
> --
> Mark Taylor    Starlink Programmer    Physics,  Bristol University, UK
> m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk  0117 928 8776  http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/
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