question on UCD web service

Ivan Yu. Zolotukhin iz at sai.msu.ru
Fri Nov 25 16:15:54 PST 2005


Hello,

My question concerns some of the CDS web services, I'm trying to make 
use of 

http://cdsws.u-strasbg.fr/axis/services/UCD?wsdl

and call method "assign" to resolve natural language description to UCD in 
my client. The main problem for my case is ambiguity: my client should 
propose to the user that provides ambiguous description like "astronomical 
coordinates" or "velocity" several variants to choose from. But above
service provides only best match (you call it "suggested complete UCD" in 
the cgi interface), whereas in the cgi interface 

http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/UCD/cgi-bin/descr2ucd

all the matches are proposed.

As far as I understand, it is not difficult to deploy a service that would 
reply with all the possible matches, because this functionality is
already avaliable in the cgi. Maybe some flag to assign method or new 
method that does not affect existing clients?


Sincerely,
Ivan Zolotukhin




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