PDB Report Node

[elsamuel]

Are there any updates on the status of a Custom PDB Report node?

In a previous post from December 2020, it was stated that there was a prototype in development and release was planned for Q1 2021.

v1.28.0 New PDB Connector Query Nodes

We have just released a new version of the PDB Connector family of nodes on the nightly build channel. [image] The new nodes replace the old PDB Connector nodes which finally stopped working last week when the remote webservices at www.rcsb.org were shut down. Due to the significant changes in the remote API in the new webservices, it is unfortunately not possible to convert directly from the old queries to the new queries. The old nodes will now show an error during the ‘configure’ stage a…

[Vernalis]

Hi @elsamuel,

The node is still very much ‘in development’ I’m afraid at the moment. We have a node which will currently work for certain subsets of standard report only. Making it more general is proving more troublesome than anticipated, but it is still being worked on. I would rather not release the node in its current form only to have to make breaking changes to it in a future fully-functional version.

Sorry, that’s almost certainly not the answer you were hoping for.

Steve

[elsamuel]

Thanks for the update. I spent yesterday playing around with the “new” PDB query and custom reporting service on the website and I think I can see how creating this node is a challenge. I’m just barely brushing the surface, and already the json and csv outputs have been a pain to work with.