NAME

MOSES::MOBY::Data::Object - A base Moby data type

SYNOPSIS

 use MOSES::MOBY::Data::Object;

 # create a Moby object with a namespace of NCBI_gi and id 545454
 my $data = MOSES::MOBY::Data::Object->new (namespace=>"NCBI_gi", id=>"545454");
 
 # set/get an article name for this data object
 $data->name ('myObject');
 print $data->name;
 
 # set/get an id for this data object
 $data->id ('myID');
 print $data->id;
 
 # check if this data object is a primitive type
 print "a primitive" if $data->primitive;
 print "not a primitive" if not $data->primitive;
 
 # set an array of cross references
 my $xref = new MOSES::MOBY::Data::Xref;
 $xref->description ('He is looking at you, kid...');
 $data->xrefs ($xref);
 # set more cross referneces for this data object
 my $xref1 = ... 
 my $xref2 = ... 
 my $xref3 = ... 
 $data->xrefs ($xref1, $xref2, $xref3);
 # or:
 $data->xrefs ([$xref1, $xref2, $xref3]);

 # add cross references
 my $xref4 = ... 
 my $xref5 = ... 
 $data->add_xrefs ($xref4, $xref5);
 # or:
 $data->add_xrefs ([$xref4, $xref5]);

 # finally, get cross references back
 foreach $xref (@{ $data->xrefs }) {
    print $xref->toString;
 }

 # get a formatted string representation of this data object
 print $data->toString;
 
 # retrieve an XML::LibXML::Element representing the data object
 $xml = $data->toXML();
 print $xml->toString;
 

DESCRIPTION

An object representing a Moby object, a Moby base data type for all other Moby data types.

AUTHORS

 Edward Kawas (edward.kawas [at] gmail [dot] com)
 Martin Senger (martin.senger [at] gmail [dot] com)

ACCESSIBLE ATTRIBUTES

Details are in MOSES::MOBY::Base. Here just a list of them:

namespace

id

name

An article name for this datatype. Note that the article name depends on the context where this object is used.

provision

A provision information. A scalar of type MOSES::MOBY::Data::ProvisionInformation.

xrefs

Cross-references. Can be a scalar (of type MOSES::MOBY::Data::Xref, an array, or a array reference.

primitive

A boolean property indicating if this data type is a primitive Moby type or not.

SUBROUTINES

toXML

Return an XML::LibXML::Element representing this data object. An optional attribute is an articleName that should be given to this object (in its XML representation).