Re: Dynamic generation of catalogs with catalogRef

Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> As some are aware, I have written an intermediate server for accessing 
> files on an object-oriented database, with files in incompatible 
> formats. For any given file, it works great.
> I'd like to now go ahead and produce thredds catalogs from its indexes, 
> but as new data is constantly being added, it would be nice if this was 
> dynamic.
> If I write a cgi script which would produce a thredds catalog, would the 
> local server be able to properly interpret and use that? Or would it 
> assume that it was a reference to another server's catalogs, rather than 
> realising it is supposed to serve the data itself?
> Cheers,
> -T

you can't dynamically modify the TDS catalogs. You can use the datasetScan 
feature to deal with dynamic files. However, that currently works only on 
directory scanners. We are working on a way to plug some code to find out what 
the datasets are. Seems like that should work. We can take the details offline.