[webservices] Beta release of ws-station, please test

[Chad Trabant]

Hi Philip,

Thanks for the feedback.

More resolution in the time parameters will be added in a future release.

Chad

On Nov 15, 2011, at 6:48 AM, Philip Crotwell wrote:

> Did some simple tests and mostly it seems fine for my client.
> 
> I am guessing you were not able to address the issue with not allowing
> the "time" part on a time window? I still get the Invalid date format
> error for that. Is that slated for the next revision?
> 
> http://www.iris.edu/wsbeta/station/query?net=IU&sta=ANMO&timewindow=2010-12-09T12:00:00,2010-12-09T12:10:00&level=resp
> 
> thanks,
> Philip
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Chad Trabant <chad at iris.washington.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello WS users,
>> The DMC is pleased to announce a BETA release of our ws-station service
>> available here: http://www.iris.edu/wsbeta/station/
>> If you have written scripts or programs that access this service please test
>> this beta release, feedback is very appreciated.
>> Unless issues are identified or a request is made to lengthen the beta
>> period we plan to promote this version of the service to production
>> (replacing the current version) on November 17th (3 days from now).
>>  Normally we will have longer beta evaluation periods, due to the relative
>> impact of interface changes versus issues addressed we would like to fast
>> track this release into production.
>> This release will not effect users of the DMC's Fetch family of scripts.
>> For those that have written code against the service please note the
>> following changes:
>> - Service messages and errors are returned in a DMC standard format of type
>> "text/plain", previously error messages were returned in a custom XML
>> structure.
>> - The <SelectedNumberStations> and <SelectedNumberChannels> elements are now
>> placed correctly in the document, this should not effect parsing but the
>> documents should now validate against the schema.
>> - The Query parameter shortcut "chan" is deprecated. Please use query
>> parameter "cha" or "channel" instead to specify channel codes(s).
>> - Empty elements (when value is null) are not included, e.g. no empty <Gain>
>> elements.
>> - All <Station> elements will be contained within <Network> elements.
>> - Fixed the output of duplicate <Station> and <StationEpoch> elements.
>> - Fixed a bug affecting virtual networks where incorrect stations were
>> returned.
>> - More validation of query parameters.
>> - Returned document contains reference to specific schema version.
>> This list of changes is documented here:
>> http://www.iris.edu/wsbeta/doc/station_revisions.htm
>> regards,
>> IRIS DMC web services team
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