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The Online SBML Validator is an SBML validation service offered at SBML.org.
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online sbml validator #5

Open piotr-gawron opened 2 years ago

piotr-gawron commented 2 years ago

I'm looking for API that was hosted under this url: http://sbml.org/validator/ (currently, 404 page not found)

I found the web version here: https://sbml.org/validator_servlet/, but link to network API (http://sbml.org/Facilities/Documentation/Validator_Web_API) is dead (currently, 404 page not found).

I also found "hidden" version of old validator here: http://constraint.caltech.edu:8888/validator_servlet/. But I assume this is just a sideeffect of the current configuration and using it programmatically is a bit tricky (for example cookies are messed up).

fbergmann commented 2 years ago

sorry for the inconvenience, over the years the old website that hosted the documentation was shut down. It seems the API description is currently not available. (I found a snapshot of it here) Indeed currently you will have to use the endpoint:

http://constraint.caltech.edu:8888/validator_servlet/ValidatorServlet

so for example from the command line:

curl -F file=@sbmlfile.xml -F output=xml -F offcheck=u http://constraint.caltech.edu:8888/validator_servlet/ValidatorServlet

We will try and improve the documentation as soon as possible.

mhucka commented 2 years ago

Note: this is hopefully a temporary situation. Do not hardwire the host name constraint.caltech.edu into anything, as that host will go away over time.

fbergmann commented 2 years ago

Indeed, we do have another name for that, i remembered: 

curl -F file=@BorisEJB.xml  -F output=xml -F offcheck=u http://sbml-validator.caltech.edu:8888/validator_servlet/ValidatorServlet

will work as well

piotr-gawron commented 2 years ago

Thanks, I will wait for a permanent solution then. For the time being I will just turn off tests that are using validator in my CI.

Can you post it here when it's available again?