Simile Timeline Generator

Author	Lily Dong
Creation date	06/06/2011
Firing policy	all
Package	org.seasr.meandre.components.vis.temporal

DESCRIPTION

Generates the necessary HTML and XML files for viewing timeline and store them on the local machine. The two files will be stored under public/resources/timeline/. For fast browse, dates are grouped into different time slices.

INPUTS

Name	Description	Example
xml	The source XML document TYPE: java.lang.String TYPE: org.seasr.datatypes.BasicDataTypes.Strings TYPE: byte[] TYPE: org.seasr.datatypes.BasicDataTypes.Bytes TYPE: java.lang.Object
min_value	The minimum year in input document. TYPE: java.lang.Integer TYPE: org.seasr.datatypes.BasicDataTypes.Integers TYPE: java.lang.String TYPE: org.seasr.datatypes.BasicDataTypes.Strings
max_value	The maximum year in input document. TYPE: java.lang.Integer TYPE: org.seasr.datatypes.BasicDataTypes.Integers TYPE: java.lang.String TYPE: org.seasr.datatypes.BasicDataTypes.Strings

OUTPUTS

Name	Description	Example
html	The HTML for the Simile Timeline viewer TYPE: org.seasr.datatypes.BasicDataTypes.Strings
error	This port is used to output any unhandled errors encountered during the execution of this component

PROPERTIES

Name	Description	Default value
_debug_level	Controls the verbosity of debug messages printed by the component during execution. Possible values are: off, severe, warning, info, config, fine, finer, finest, all Append ',mirror' to any of the values above to mirror that output to the server logs.	info
timeline_api_url	The URL to the Simile Timline API, or leave empty to use the embedded one
inline_simile_xml	Generate inline Simile data?	true
save_output_to_file	Save the Simile XML output to file?	false
_ignore_errors	Set to 'true' to ignore all unhandled exceptions and prevent the flow from being terminated. Setting this property to 'false' will result in the flow being terminated in the event an unhandled exception is thrown during the execution of this component	false