[webservices] Ambiguity in description of ws/availability

[Chad Trabant]

Hi Joachim,

Thanks, I've changed the query usage part to "bulkdataselect" so it is consistent through documentation.

As you say this might cause problems, but only if there is more than one implementation.  Are you planning on implementing this interface?  Our long term plans are to include data availability into an FDSN version of the station metadata service (current under development), when this is new service is established it will be a superset of the functionality provided by the current ws-station and ws-availablity.

cheers,
Chad

On Oct 5, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Joachim Saul wrote:

> 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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