From 89c96b76e56e064b96687e906c8a71030c9477cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Helma <helma@in-silico.de>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:54:09 +0100
Subject: names retrieval fixed, examples for README

---
 README         | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 application.rb |  4 +++-
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 7134d6a..55d4b51 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -15,6 +15,29 @@ Supported MIME formats (http://chemical-mime.sourceforge.net/):
 	* chemical/x-inchi
 	* chemical/x-mdl-sdfile
 	* text/plain (chemical names)
-	* link to image/gif (output only)
+	* image/gif (returns image uri, output only)
+
+Examples:
+
+	Create a compound_uri from smiles:
+		curl -X POST  -H "Content-Type:chemical/x-daylight-smiles" --data-binary "c1ccccc1" http://webservices.in-silico.ch/test/compound
+
+	Create a compound_uri from a SD file:
+		curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:chemical/x-mdl-sdfile" --data-binary @my.sdf http://webservices.in-silico.ch/test/compound
+
+	Create a compound_uri from name (or any other identifier that can be resolved with the Cactus service):
+		curl -X POST  -H "Content-Type:text/plain" --data-binary "Benzene" http://webservices.in-silico.ch/test/compound
+
+	Create a compound_uri from CAS:
+		curl -X POST  -H "Content-Type:text/plain" --data-binary "71-43-2" http://webservices.in-silico.ch/test/compound
+
+	Get SMILES for a compound_uri:
+		curl http://webservices.in-silico.ch/test/compound/InChI=1S/C6H6/c1-2-4-6-5-3-1/h1-6H
+
+	Get a SD file for a compound_uri:
+		curl -H "Accept:chemical/x-mdl-sdfile" http://webservices.in-silico.ch/test/compound/InChI=1S/C6H6/c1-2-4-6-5-3-1/h1-6H
+
+	Get all names for a compound_uri:
+		curl -H "Accept:text/plain" http://webservices.in-silico.ch/test/compound/InChI=1S/C6H6/c1-2-4-6-5-3-1/h1-6H
 
 Installation: http://wiki.github.com/helma/opentox-documentation/installation-of-opentox-webservices
diff --git a/application.rb b/application.rb
index 7829fff..e6ee6c7 100644
--- a/application.rb
+++ b/application.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'opentox-ruby-api-wrapper'
 
+CACTUS_URI="http://cactus.nci.nih.gov/chemical/structure/"
+
 get %r{/(.+)} do |inchi| # catches all remaining get requests
 	inchi = URI.unescape request.env['REQUEST_URI'].sub(/^\//,'') # hack to avoid sinatra's URI/CGI unescaping, splitting, ..."
 	case request.env['HTTP_ACCEPT']
@@ -15,7 +17,7 @@ get %r{/(.+)} do |inchi| # catches all remaining get requests
 	when "image/gif"
 		"#{CACTUS_URI}#{inchi}/image" 
 	when "text/plain"
-		RestClient.get "#{CACTUS_URI}#{inchi}/names" 
+		RestClient.get("#{CACTUS_URI}#{inchi}/names").to_s
 	else
 		status 400
 		"Unsupported MIME type '#{request.content_type}'"
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