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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