New Services
A service is a grouping of commands that are provided by a module and can be handled by other modules, like data handlers. For example, OPeNDAP provides the dap
service with the commands das, dds, ddx, and dods
. These commands can be handled by the different data handlers that can serve up OPeNDAP responses for these commands. The format for each of these commands is dap2
.
Services can be added to the BES in addition to the dap
service. For example, the CEDAR project adds the service cedar
with the commands flat, tab, info, and stream
, each of those commands with the format cedar
.
You can also add commands to a service. For example, the dap-server modules add the three commands ascii, info_page, and html_form
to the dap
service because they use the base services provided by the dap
service. In other words, the ascii
response, for example, takes a data
response and converts it to ascii.
And, you can add formats to the different commands. For example, the fileout_netcdf module can take a data response dods
and return it as a netcdf file. So it adds the format netcdf
to the dods
command of the dap
service.