[webservices] Ambiguity in description of ws/availability

Joachim Saul saul at gfz-potsdam.de
Fri Oct 5 13:02:20 PDT 2012


Hi,

in http://www.iris.edu/ws/availability/ there is an ambiguity with respect to the correct value for the parameter "output" if bulkdataselect list format is requested.

Under "Query Usage:" there is

output-options 	:: 	[output=<xml|bulk|query>]

whereas below in the table it is not "bulk" but "bulkdataselect".

Which is correct? The IRIS implementation appears to accept both but IMO in the specification it should either be one of these or it needs to be stated explicitly that both "bulk" and "bulkdataselect" have to be accepted by the server. I don't want to split hairs but in a real world the current specification might lead to compatibility issues.

Cheers,
Joachim


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