getDatabaseList

Description: Returns list of available databases.

Arguments

• None

Sample Perl code

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

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

my $soap = SOAP::Lite
    -> uri('http://pubmlst.org/MLST')
    -> proxy('http://pubmlst.org/cgi-bin/mlstdbnet/mlstFetch.pl');
my $soapResponse = $soap->getDatabaseList();
unless ($soapResponse->fault){
    my @databases;
    for my $t ($soapResponse->valueof('//database')) {
	push @databases, $t->{'name'} . ": " . $t->{'description'};
    }
    print "$_\n" foreach (@databases);
} 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 GetDatabaseList {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
	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/",
					    "getDatabaseList"));
	    call.setReturnType(org.apache.axis.Constants.SOAP_VECTOR);
	    Vector ret = (Vector) call.invoke(new Object[] {  });
	    for (int i=0; i<ret.size(); i++){
		Vector db = (Vector)ret.get(i);
		System.out.println(db.get(0) + ": " + db.get(1));
	    }
	} catch (Exception e) {
	    System.err.println(e.toString());
	}
    }
}

Output

bcereus: Bacillus cereus
campylobacter: Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli
neisseria: Neisseria spp.