TAP, skynode, or boutique?

[Patrick Dowler]

On 2008-9-5 08:55:54 Roy Williams wrote:
> This is fabulous Guy, thank you.
>
> Do you know anyone who is making/planning an implementation of TAP
> 3.3.6? In the US, there are several partial implementations of TAP being
> started, but nobody is doing that part of the spec.

I just returned from holidays and was aiming to announce this today, but (as 
with all prototypes) I have one mor thing to do first :-)

We have implemented an async TAP/QL service with support for most of the 
region stuff in ADQL (still lacking STC support since I don't have time to 
write my own library). It follows the UWS 0.4 spec with a few additional 
RESTful resources specific to TAP: format (XML or CVS), query (the ADQL). I 
still have to add two things to make it complete:

1. support "dest" so the output goes to a VOSpace instead of being stored 
locally

2. support table upload: it seems that input data would be pretty standard in 
any UWS and UWS already specifies the results resource, so I punted this 
topic to the gws mailing list... there are some TAP-specific details about 
table upload, so I'm not sure a generic solution will work, but it needs to 
be consistent if UWS adds an "inputs" resource

Anyway, once table upload is implemented (soon: looks pretty easy with STIL) 
it would be possible to do exactly what it says in 3.3.6: upload a table of 
positions and do a spatial join between that table and some table the service 
exposes. I am hoping to get this working before the meeting. 

I will post a URL once I fix a small issue with getting the result from the 
XML output.

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