TAP usage in practice - we have a small problem.

Walter Landry wlandry at caltech.edu
Fri May 19 09:09:40 CEST 2017


Markus Demleitner <msdemlei at ari.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> Admittedly, Registry outsiders will still have a hard time figuring
> out the right way to declare their TAP services.  Therefore, I've
> written up a step-by-step guide for authors of TAP-related registry
> records at
> 
> http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/HowToEnableTableDiscovery.
> 
> It'd be great if the major TAP service operators could have a look
> and ideally implement these steps;

It looks like the recommendation is to duplicate the /tables endpoint.
I do not have one of those, and it would be some effort to generate
it.  It would be easy to add a tableset that has a table name, but no
columns.  But I have a feeling that would be frowned upon.

Thanks,
Walter Landry


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