getIsolateFields

Description: Returns isolate fields defined for database.

Arguments

• database (string)

Sample Perl code

#!/usr/bin/perl
#Written by Keith Jolley

use SOAP::Lite;
use strict;
use warnings;

#####Sample arguments#########
my $database = 'neisseria';
##############################

my $soap = SOAP::Lite
    -> uri('http://pubmlst.org/MLST')
    -> proxy('http://pubmlst.org/cgi-bin/mlstdbnet/mlstFetch.pl');
my $soapResponse = $soap->getIsolateFields($database);
unless ($soapResponse->fault){
    for my $soapData ($soapResponse->dataof('//fieldDef')) {
	my $desc = $soapData->value->{'description'};
	$desc = "-" if !$desc;
	print "Field: " . $soapData->value->{'name'} . "; Type: " .
	    $soapData->value->{'type'} . "; Description: " .
	    $desc . "\n";
    }
} else {
    print join ', ',$soapResponse->faultcode,$soapResponse->faultstring;
}

Sample Java code

package org.pubmlst.mlstSOAP;

import org.apache.axis.client.Call;
import org.apache.axis.client.Service;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

import java.util.Vector;

public class GetIsolateFields {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
	//Sample arguments////////////////
	String database = "neisseria";
	//////////////////////////////////
	try {
	    String endpoint = "http://pubmlst.org/cgi-bin/mlstdbnet/mlstFetch.pl";
	    Service service = new Service();
	    Call call = (Call) service.createCall();

	    call.setTargetEndpointAddress(new java.net.URL(endpoint));
	    call.setOperationName(new QName("http://pubmlst.org/MLST/",
					    "getIsolateFields"));
	    call.addParameter("database",org.apache.axis.Constants.XSD_STRING,
			      javax.xml.rpc.ParameterMode.IN);
	    call.setReturnType(org.apache.axis.Constants.SOAP_VECTOR);
	    Vector ret = (Vector) call.invoke(new Object[] { database });
	    for (int i=0; i<ret.size(); i++){
		Vector field = (Vector)ret.get(i);
		String desc;
		try {
		    desc = (String) field.get(2);
		} catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e){
		    desc = "-";
		}
		System.out.println("Field: " +field.get(0) + ": " +
				   "Type: " + field.get(1) +
				   "Description: " + desc);
	    }
	} catch (Exception e) {
	    System.err.println(e.toString());
	}
    }
}

Output

Field: id; Type: integer; Description: primary key
Field: strain; Type: text; Description: strain name
Field: other_name; Type: text; Description: alternative strain name
Field: ST; Type: integer; Description: sequence type