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Roy, If you run the Python servers under WSGI it should be fairly easy to write a custom dispatcher that will do anything you need. You could also run the Java Servlet requests through your WSGI dispatcher using something like Paste proxy. -Phil --- Roy Mendelssohn <address@hidden> wrote: > > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:43:43 -0800 > To: address@hidden > From: "Roy Mendelssohn" <address@hidden> > Subject: Combining THREDDS and Pydap services > CC: "Roberto De Almeida" <address@hidden>, > address@hidden, > address@hidden > > I apologize for the double post. I got my mail > lists confused (old > age is setting in), I originally posted to > support-thredds but meant > to post it here. > > -Roy M. > > > Hi: > > I am throwing out to the list a THREDDS related > server problem that > we are trying to figure out relatively clean ways to > solve, in the > hope that others may have some good ideas on how to > accomplish this. > > We are heavily invested in THREDDS > (http://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog.html) > in particular > the cataloging and the data aggregation. Most of > the links on that > page are not single files but many files (sometimes > in the > thousands) being aggregated through time. This is a > very useful > feature for the type of data we have. > > Also, on an in-house server we have been testing > Roberto De Almeida's > pydap implementation of OPeNDAP > (http://pydap.org/). This server > has a lot of nice features that we are interested > in, such as his wms > service and kml service from an OPeNDAP URL type > expression. > > So what is the issue. Clearly, on web pages that > are developed in > house, where a user just clicks on a link, if we > have both Pydap and > THREDDS running on the same machine, we can change > the links to point > to the appropriate server. But for the more general > public, or for > people using the links in scripts etc, we would like > to have just one > basic link that depending on the file ending would > go to the correct > place. > > So right now if I wanted the second time period, > full extent of one > of the files the URL would be: > > http://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/satellite/AT/ssta/1day?ATssta[1:1:1][0:1:0][0:1:2320][0:1:3200] > > If I wanted an ascii file it would be: > > http://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/satellite/AT/ssta/1day.ascii?ATssta[1:1:1][0:1:0][0:1:2320][0:1:3200] > > but what I would like to do is that if I give it: > > http://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/satellite/AT/ssta/1day.kml?0:1:2320][0:1:3200] > > and it would know to switch-over to the pydap server > and produce the > kml output (while still being able to view the file > as a single file > through the THREDDS aggregation). > > Now as given, it is unlikely to work since THREDDS > is in the URL. > But suppose we had something like: > > http://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/ERD_Data/satellite/AT/ssta/1day.ascii?ATssta[1:1:1][0:1:0][0:1:2320][0:1:3200] > > or > > http://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/ERD_Data/satellite/AT/ssta/1day.kmlATssta[1:1:1][0:1:0][0:1:2320][0:1:3200] > > and want it so that in the ascii case it goes to > THREDDS and in the > kml case it goes to Pydap. > > Ideas we had: > > 1. Monkey with the appropriate section in the > THREDDS java to > redirect when it recognizes the new service type, > much as it does > with WCS services. Downside is we would have to > monkey with every > revision and could mess up things in unexpected ways > in the process. > > 2. At the apache or tomcat level, have the > redirection made (is this > possible?) based on file type. > > 3. Some other solution? > > A question I pose to Roberto (as he is copied) but > may be of general > interest is if there is a way for Pydap to serve > OPeNDAP served data > that is at another URL (even if on the same > machine), much as > THREDDS can. It is this that would simplify what it > would take for us > to use the aggregation capabilities in THREDDS with > Pydap in our own > internal scripts as we can still views these as one > file - or does > anyone else have general suggestions as how we might > combine the > desirable features of each. > > -Roy > -- > ********************** > "The contents of this message do not reflect any > position of the U.S. > Government or NOAA." > ********************** > Roy Mendelssohn > Supervisory Operations Research Analyst > NOAA/NMFS > Environmental Research Division > Southwest Fisheries Science Center > 1352 Lighthouse Avenue > Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097 > > e-mail: address@hidden (Note new e-mail > address) > voice: (831)-648-9029 > fax: (831)-648-8440 > www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ > > "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." Phil Sharfstein GODAE Project Manager Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center 7 Grace Hopper Ave, Stop 1. 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