NAME

Webservice::InterMine::Cookbook::List::Combination - Combining Lists

SYNOPSIS

  use Webservice::InterMine;

  my $service = Webservice::InterMine->get_service('www.flymine.org/query', token => $TOKEN);

  # Make a new list by combining two or more
  my $combined_list = $list + $combined_list;
  $combined_list->rename("Combination");

  # Make a new list which is a clone of another list
  my $copy = $service->new_list($list, name => "Copy of my list");

DESCRIPTION

Copying Lists

Lists can be copied within the same service by simply passing the list to copy from as the first parameter to new_list. This makes a new list (with a default name if none is supplied) with the same content as the original.

Combining Lists

Lists can be combined in several ways (see Recipe2 for more operations). One of these is to join two or more lists together. This can be done in a number of ways:

  my $new_list = $listA + $listB; # Addition as union
  $new_list = $listA | $listB;    # Union as this or that
  $new_list = $listA + $query;    # OK to combine lists and queries.
  $new_list = $service->join_lists([$listA, $listB, $query], "Combination") # Use the service

The main benefit of using the service method is being able to supply a name at creation time, rather than using the rename method, as well as being able to supply as many lists and queries as you wish.

The syntax is much the same for the other operations, more details of which can be found in Recipe2.

Retrieving Results

Lists may be treated much like queries, and this is explored in more depth in Recipe3. Methods that work on queries and lists include:

  $list->show();
  $list->show_first();
  $list->print_results();
  while (<$list>) { 
    # Iteration
  }
  $list->results_iterator;

CONCLUSION

The syntax for creating lists is the same for all the different content types, and many of the same operations that can be performed on queries can be performed on Lists as well.

AUTHOR

Alex Kalderimis dev@intermine.org

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to dev@intermine.org.

SUPPORT

You can find information about InterMine at:

• InterMine

  http://www.intermine.org

• Documentation

  http://intermine.org/wiki/PerlWebServiceAPI

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2006 - 2013 FlyMine, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.