Grimoires Shell Readme

Introduction

The Grimoires shell (the shell in this readme) is a simple command line client for the Grimoires registry (the registry in this readme). The shell provides a group of utilities for users to publish/inquire business/service/wsdl/metadata.

How to compile and run

Use "GShell" as the current directory.

To compile, type on the command line:

ant

To run on Windows, type on the command line:

run

To run on Unix/Linux, type on the command line:

chmod +x run.sh
./run.sh

The default registry's URL is set to http://fantasio.ecs.soton.ac.uk:8080/grimoires.

If you have deployed the registry on, e.g., http://hostname:8080/grimoires, you need to start the shell by

run http://hostname:8080/grimoires

NOTE: Although there is an ant target "run", please use "run.bat" or "run.sh" for better usability.

User guide

After the shell is started, you will see a prompt sign ">".

Type "help", you will see a help message.

Type "ls", you will see all available commands. A command is a utility that performs a single task on the registry.

Type "run command_name" to run a command.

Type "exit" to exit the shell.

You will see [$n] (n is an integer) in the output. It means the printed variable is recorded in the shell and you may reuse them by typing "$n".

A use scenario

In this scenario, we demonstrate how to publish/inquire a gcode service owned by Univ. of Southampton, and how to annotate its input message with some semantic type.

Publish a business

Publish a business called "Univ. of Southampton". A business is the UDDI's terminology for an organization. You will get a business key. On the screen, you will see:

>run PublishBusiness
==== Publish a business ====
Input the business name:
Univ. of Southampton
Input the business description:
University
Business key[$1]: ca5bdb5b-cf1c-4054-8626-65862727b9ff

NOTE:

A. the lines in bold font, e.g.,

run PublishBusiness

are typed by users.

B. $1 in "Business key[$1]" refers to a recorded variable. Later, $1 can be used to refer to the key "ca5bdb5b-cf1c-4054-8626-65862727b9ff".

Inquire a business

Inquire a business by name. On the screen, you will see:

>run InquireBusiness
==== Inquire a business ====
Input the business name:
Univ. of Southampton
Business key[$2]: ca5bdb5b-cf1c-4054-8626-65862727b9ff

Publish a service

Publish a service called "gcode". On the screen, you will see:

>run PublishService
==== Publish a service ====
Input the service name:
gcode
Input the service description:
group encoding
Input the business key:
$1
Input the service access point:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/gcode
Input the service WSDL URL:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~wf/grimoires/wsdl/gcode.wsdl
Service key[$3]: 09017faa-0d2e-4bdd-aea3-6e76084504cf

NOTE:

A. The service access point is where the service is located.

B. The WSDL URL will be recorded in UDDI tModel, but a standard UDDI registry will not register this WSDL file.

Inquire a service

Inquire a service by name. On the screen, you will see:

>run InquireService
==== List all services ====
Input the service name:
gcode
Service name: gcode
Service key: dc64b224-02cf-44cd-92aa-0037a44d4da1
Business key: 9f6d4816-dfa4-46df-b330-c4108b361d94
Access point in binding template: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/gcode
tModel: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~wf/grimoires/wsdl/gcode.wsdl

Publish WSDL

Publish a WSDL file, whose URL is http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~wf/grimoires/wsdl/gcode.wsdl On the screen, you will see:

>run PublishWSDL
==== Publish a WSDL file ====
Input the WSDL URL:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~wf/grimoires/wsdl/gcode.wsdl
WSDL key[$4]: 35708376-4092-464c-b364-80459d81400f

NOTE: this is a Grimoires' extension to the UDDI specification.

Inquire WSDL

Inquire a WSDL by its registered key. On the screen, you will see:

>run InquireWSDL
==== Inquire a WSDL file ====
Input the WSDL Key:
$4

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<definitions targetNamespace="http://test/gcode" xmlns:tns="http://test/gcode" x
mlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws
dl/">
  <message name="response">
    <part name="recoded" type="xsd:string"/>
  </message>
  <message name="request">
    <part name="sample" type="xsd:string"/>
    <part name="groups" type="xsd:string"/>
  </message>
  <portType name="DefaultPort">
    <operation name="DefaultOperation">
      <input message="tns:request"/>
      <output message="tns:response"/>
    </operation>
  </portType>
</definitions>

Publish metadata

Publish a piece of metadata to a message part of the gcode service to describe its semantic type. On the screen, you will see:

>run PublishMetadata
==== Publish a metadata to a message part ====
Input the message namespace:
http://test/gcode
Input the message name:
request
Input the message part name:
sample
The metadata type by default: http://www.grimoires.org/SemanticType
Input the metadata to describe the semantic type of the message part:
nucleotide_sequence
Metadata key[$5]: 32529811-d841-45c5-bf5b-892e2815966c

Inquire metadata

Inquire an entity that has the specified annotation. On the screen, you will see:

>run InquireMetadata
==== Inquire a metadata ====
Input the metadata:
nucleotide_sequence
Found a message part with this metedata:
(http://www.grimoires.org/SemanticType, nucleotide_sequence)
Message namespace[$6]: http://test/gcode
Message name[$7]: request
Message part name[$8]: sample

-- WeijianFang - 22 Jun 2005
to top