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This will eventually be simplified to make use of the Brown Dog Tools Catalog (analogous to an app store).
Calling the DAP
The DAP can be accessed at:
http://dap.ncsa.illinois.edu:8184/convert/<output_format>/<input_file>
For example posting the file below to the following endpoint will convert the native Ameriflux data over the range specified in the XML to the PEcAn netCDF CF format:
http://browndog.ncsa.illinois.edu/examples/US-Dk3-2001-2003.xml
http://dap.ncsa.illinois.edu:8184/convert/pecan.zip/
In the case of web hosted files as the XML file above one can simply URL encode it directly at the end of the REST endpoint above:
Note this will actually execute if clicked on. Most modern program languages provide means of making HTTP requests, which is what is required to access a REST service. For example in R there is:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/httpRequest/index.html