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What I want to do is take the functionality of the webpage and be able to do all of that right from McV. I'm not looking for something polished and production ready, quick and dirty is fine, just something that could be end-to-end right from the application ... find data - fire off job - wait - view data.
My first thought was to simply create a formula that popped up a window to allow you to do the search, etc..., and just sit there and wait until it got the notification message from the cluster saying the data was ready then create the field and return it. However, I believe that this by nature would be synchronous, there by locking the application until the cluster completed the job, which could be a while depending on how full the job queue is.
My second thought was to create a plugin with a chooser that spawned some thread that waited for the processing complete message. I'm not sure if it would be possible to plop the OPeNDAP URL for the processed data into the URL chooser once it's done though. Maybe it would be possible to simply popup a dialog with the list of currently available displays and ask which one to put it in.
The first idea would work but I really want asynchronous communication. I'm not sure if the second way would work.
What do you think? -bruce
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