Resolving endpoints

[Guy Rixon]

Thanks Kevin.  If I read you correctly, we still have a confusion about what's
in AccessURL and who does what with it. Therefore, I suggest that we specify
one of two things RSN:

 1. There are separate files for the URL that is the service endpoint and the
    URL that gives the WSDL (and yes, they may often be the same apart from
    the ?WSDL suffix).

 2. We define a getEndpoint operation on the registry service that does the
    necessary with WSDL.

I.e. we need to be consistent across all service types.

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Kevin Benson wrote:

> Hello Guy,
> The registry much like cgi services will just return back the enpoint
> loated in the <AccessURL> element.  Astrogrid added a small change
> recently where if the endpoint/url ends in a "?wsdl" then it will look up
> the endpoint from the WSDL (currently still on the client).  But the
> standard and preferred way is just to grab the text inside the <AccessURL>
> element.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Guy Rixon wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > currently, CGI services store direct-access URLs in the registry and SOAP
> > services store URLs that produce their WSDL. To use a SOAP service via the
> > registry a client has to look up its WSDL URL, download the WSDL and parse out
> > the endpoint address.
> >
> > Can someone remind me whether this situation is supposed to continue, or ware
> > we going to allow direct-access URLs for SOAP services with WSDL URLs moved to
> > a separate metadatum?
> >
> > If we're not supporting direct-access URLs for SOAP services, can we add a
> > registry function to obtain such a URL from an IVORN by handling the WSDL
> > inside the registry service? It seems wasteful to put the WSDL-handling code
> > in every registry client instead of in a handful of registry
> > service-implementations.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Guy
> >
> > Guy Rixon 				        gtr at ast.cam.ac.uk
> > Institute of Astronomy   	                Tel: +44-1223-337542
> > Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK, CB3 0HA		Fax: +44-1223-337523
> >
>

Guy Rixon 				        gtr at ast.cam.ac.uk
Institute of Astronomy   	                Tel: +44-1223-337542
Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK, CB3 0HA		Fax: +44-1223-337523