Follow-up from "webservice and obsrio enhancements"

The following discussion from !66 (merged) should be addressed:

• @jmfee started a discussion:

  The sampling period shouldn't know about input factories, this is more of a problem of the current web service implementation. I would jut check the sampling period in this method for now, and we can come up with a better solution later.

mentioned in merge request !69 (merged)

added Needs Review label

marked the checklist item @jmfee started a discussion: as completed

closed with commit b57f6d66

removed Needs Review label