[help-GIFT] CFeedbackClient.pm: getting configuration information

[David Squire]

Hi,

I've been doing a bit of detective work trying to work out what configuration 
information is actually stored when the hand-shake information is parsed after 
a collection is made. I've just done this:

my $FeedbackClient = new CFeedbackClient();
$FeedbackClient->setAddress($Host);
$FeedbackClient->startSession($UserID);
# see if we can print a list of the available collections
foreach my $Collection (@{$FeedbackClient->{collection}}) {
    foreach my $Element (keys %$Collection) {
        print "$Element: $Collection->{$Element}<BR>\n";
    }
}

which resulted in (when connecting to the demo server in Geneva):

query-paradigm-list: ARRAY(0x820d410)<BR>
collection-id: TSR500<BR>
query-paradigm-list: ARRAY(0x820d524)<BR>
collection-id: c-1-Lausanne<BR>
query-paradigm-list: ARRAY(0x820d56c)<BR>
collection-id: c-48-15-15-23-1-100-3-53-0<BR>
query-paradigm-list: ARRAY(0x820d5b4)<BR>
collection-id: c-corel<BR>
query-paradigm-list: ARRAY(0x820d5fc)<BR>
collection-id: c-such<BR>
query-paradigm-list: ARRAY(0x820d644)<BR>
collection-id: c-such-2<BR>
query-paradigm-list: ARRAY(0x820d68c)<BR>
collection-id: c-w<BR>

So I discover that the actual collection name is apparently not stored 
anywhere. It must come across in the hand-shake MRML, so I guess that the 
parser is just ignoring it. I suspect that what I have to do is to dive into 
the operation handleStart and make changes to something like:

  if($lPath=~m:collection-list/collection$:){
    
$self->addCollection($inAttributes{"collection-id"},$inAttributes{"collection-name"});
  }

with appropriate changes to addCollection too. Am I on the right track? I 
imagine that I'll have to do the same for algorithms etc. too.

Thanks,

David


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