NAME
MOBY::Async::Service - an object for communicating with Asynchronous MOBY Services
AUTHORS
Former developer Enrique de Andres Saiz (enrique.deandres@pcm.uam.es) - INB GNHC-1 (Madrid Science Park, Spain) (2006-2007).
Maintainers Jose Maria Fernandez (jmfernandez@cnio.es), Jose Manuel Rodriguez (jmrodriguez@cnio.es) - INB GN2 (CNIO, Spain).
DESCRIPTION
It provides a class to invoke asynchronous services. Its use is very similar to MOBY::Client::Service because it is its super-class. It also provides additional methods in order to have more control over the asynchronous service execution.
METHODS
new
Name : new
Function : create a service connection.
Usage : $Service = MOBY::Async::Service->new(@args)
Args : service - string with a WSDL defining an asynchronous
MOBY service
Returns : MOBY::Async::Service object, undef if no wsdl.
silent
Name : silent
Function : get/set silent mode; if silent is not set, status messages
reported when execute method is invoked.
Usage : $Service->silent()
$Service->silent($boolean)
Args : $boolean - 0 or 1 (default).
Returns : 0 or 1.
execute
Name : execute
Function : execute the asynchronous MOBY service; this method invoke
internally to the submit, poll and result methods. It
calculates polling time according to the status messages
received from the provider. If from that messages is not
possible to infer the polling time, it calculates a
pseudo-random polling time, whoose value increases until
is up to around 1 hour.
Usage : $result = $Service->execute(%args)
Args : XMLinputlist => \@data
Returns : a MOBY message containing whatever the service provides
as output.
Comment : for more information about arguments look up execute
method at MOBY::Client::Service.
enumerated_execute
Name : enumerated_execute
Function : execute the asynchronous MOBY service using self-enumerated
inputs; this method invoke internally to the enumerated_submit,
poll and result methods. It calculates polling time according
to the status messages received from the provider. If from
that messages is not possible to infer the polling time, it
calculates a pseudo-random polling time, whoose value increases
until is up to around 1 hour.
Usage : $result = $Service->execute(%args)
Args : Input => \%data
Returns : a MOBY message containing whatever the service provides
as output.
Comment : for more information about arguments look up enumerated_execute
method at MOBY::Client::Service.
submit
Name : submit
Function : submit the asynchronous MOBY service.
Usage : ($EPR, @queryIDs) = $Service->submit(%args)
Args : XMLinputlist => \@data
Returns : WSRF::WS_Address object with an EPR and the input queryIDs.
Comment : for more information about arguments look up execute
method at MOBY::Client::Service.
enumerated_submit
Name : enumerated_submit
Function : submit the asynchronous MOBY service using self-enumerated
inputs.
Usage : ($EPR, @queryIDs) = $Service->submit(%args)
Args : XMLinputlist => \%data
Returns : WSRF::WS_Address object with an EPR and the input queryIDs.
Comment : for more information about arguments look up enumerated_execute
method at MOBY::Client::Service.
poll
Name : poll
Function : gets the status of a set of queryIDs.
Usage : @status = $Service->poll($EPR, @queryIDs)
Args : $EPR - WSRF::WS_Address object.
@queryIDs - an array containing queryIDs values.
Returns : an array of LSAE::AnalysisEventBlock objects.
result
Name : result
Function : get the result of a set of queryIDs.
Usage : @result = $Service->result($EPR, @queryIDs)
Args : $EPR - WSRF::WS_Address object.
@queryIDs - an array containing queryIDs values.
Returns : an array of MOBY messages.
destroy
Name : destroy
Function : destroy the resource associated to the execution of
an asynchronous MOBY service.
Usage : $Service->result($EPR);
Args : $EPR - WSRF::WS_Address object.
Returns : nothing.
raw_execute
Calls the service asynchronously with the given scalar XML input. Behaves exactly as execute
.