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RNAforester2 - WebService

This is a short introduction using RNAforester2 WebServices offered by BiBiServ. If you're not familiar with using webservices in general you should have a closer look to our webservice related linklist.

WSDL - methods, parameters and datatypes

If you've a closer look at the WSDL file describing the RNAforester2 webservice, you can see two methods belonging together.

request and response
request_orig and response_orig

Bioinformatic programs often perform computation on large data sets and therefore require much CPU time. This can cause problems like http connection timeouts (usually after 5 minutes) during online usage. To avoid such problems when using RNAforester2 WebService we use a technique called Request and Reply with polling based on BiBiWS. First the client side (e.g. your program) requests a RNAforester2 job submitting the necessary data (parameter and data) and gets an id after the job is started. Afterwards the client can request the result by calling the corresponding response method with the id returned earlier. If the RNAforester2 job is not finished, the user gets a status code with an enhanced description of current status back (see HOBIT status codes for more information).

request
The request method ... (see table below for an example param array - default values in bold) and returns either a unique id or in case of an error a fault message.

key value description
inputdata string in fasta format fasta containing at least two protein sequences
option1 0 < 10 < 10 First param
option2 0 < 5 < 15 Secound param
note:
This is good place for note to the above key-value pairs

response
The response method gets the id returned by the request method as input parameter and returns the calculated result as ...

request_orig
...

response_orig
...

Example Perl client

The example perl client implementation for all methods is based on SOAP::Lite.
 
            At this place it's good idea to copy some code example using
            /vol/bibiadm/bin/perl2html.pl <perl-source-file>
            which prints out pretty colored perl source code in html.
          

Example Java client

The Example Java client is based on Apache Axis (dependencies : Apache common and Xerces) and combined both methods (request and response) through active waiting.
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