[webservices] Station web service: to Network, or not to Network?

[Chad Trabant]

Hi Philip,

> Hi Chad
> 
> I think this is what you are saying, but just want to make sure. Do
> you mean "All <Station> entries will be contained in a <Network>
> element

Yes.

> and there will be no duplicate <Network> elements"?

Not necessarily.  The upcoming beta release will not guarantee that all of the stations for a single network fall within a single <Network> element.  This is only known to happen if you request duplicate networks, e.g. "network=_GSN,II" (the _GSN virtual network includes the II network).  We are considering how to make sure there are not duplicate <Network> elements for future releases.

Chad

> In other words if a stationXML document has two stations that are in
> the same real-world network, then the corresponding <Station> elements
> will always be contained in a common <Network> element?
> 
> thanks,
> PHilip
> 
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Chad Trabant <chad at iris.washington.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi John,
>> This is a bug, the next release will include a fix.  Even though the
>> StationXML schema currently allows <Station> entries outside of a <Network>
>> container the DMC's service will not produce (on purpose) that variant, all
>> <Station> entries should be contained in a <Network>.
>> Chad
>> On Nov 9, 2011, at 10:43 PM, John D. West wrote:
>> 
>> Hi.
>> This
>> request: http://www.iris.edu/ws/station/query?updatedafter=2011-11-07&level=resp&net=XM&sta=WM01&timewindow=2010-01-01,2500-12-12
>> returns a <StaMessage><Network><Station>... hierarchy.
>> This
>> request: http://www.iris.edu/ws/station/query?updatedafter=2011-06-06&level=sta&net=XM&timewindow=2010-01-01,2500-12-12
>> returns a <StaMessage><Station> hierarchy, with no <Network> level.
>> This seems inconsistent -- the <Network> tag should either be there or not,
>> but shouldn't disappear between levels of the same web service. I know the
>> <Network> level used to exist in the second request, because its removal
>> broke my code.
>> Thanks!
>>      -- John
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