The Perl Toolchain Summit needs more sponsors. If your company depends on Perl, please support this very important event.

NAME

Bio::DB::BioSQL::SimpleValueAdaptor - DESCRIPTION of Object

SYNOPSIS

Give standard usage here

DESCRIPTION

SimpleValue DB adaptor

FEEDBACK

Mailing Lists

User feedback is an integral part of the evolution of this and other Bioperl modules. Send your comments and suggestions preferably to one of the Bioperl mailing lists. Your participation is much appreciated.

  bioperl-l@bio.perl.org

Support

Please direct usage questions or support issues to the mailing list:

bioperl-l@bioperl.org

rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and reponsive experts will be able look at the problem and quickly address it. Please include a thorough description of the problem with code and data examples if at all possible.

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via email or the web:

  bioperl-bugs@bio.perl.org
  http://redmine.open-bio.org/projects/bioperl/

AUTHOR - Hilmar Lapp

Email hlapp at gmx.net

APPENDIX

The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _

get_persistent_slots

 Title   : get_persistent_slots
 Usage   :
 Function: Get the slots of the object that map to attributes in its respective
           entity in the datastore.

           Slots should be methods callable without an argument.

 Example :
 Returns : an array of method names constituting the serializable slots
 Args    : the object about to be inserted or updated

get_persistent_slot_values

 Title   : get_persistent_slot_values
 Usage   :
 Function: Obtain the values for the slots returned by get_persistent_slots(),
           in exactly that order.

 Example :
 Returns : A reference to an array of values for the persistent slots of this
           object. Individual values may be undef.
 Args    : The object about to be serialized.

           A reference to an array of foreign key objects if not
           retrievable from the object itself.

get_foreign_key_objects

 Title   : get_foreign_key_objects
 Usage   :
 Function: Gets the objects referenced by this object, and which therefore need
           to be referenced as foreign keys in the datastore.

           Note that the objects are expected to implement
           Bio::DB::PersistentObjectI.

 Example :
 Returns : an array of Bio::DB::PersistentObjectI implementing objects
 Args    : The object about to be inserted or updated, or undef if the call
           is for a SELECT query. In the latter case return class or interface
           names that are mapped to the foreign key tables.
           Optionally, additional named parameters. A common parameter will
           be -fkobjs, with a reference to an array of foreign key objects
           that are not retrievable from the persistent object itself.

attach_foreign_key_objects

 Title   : attach_foreign_key_objects
 Usage   :
 Function: Attaches foreign key objects to the given object as far as
           necessary.

           This method is called after find_by_XXX() queries, not for
           INSERTs or UPDATEs.

 Example :
 Returns : TRUE on success, and FALSE otherwise.
 Args    : The object to which to attach foreign key objects.
           A reference to an array of foreign key values, in the order of
           foreign keys returned by get_foreign_key_objects().

store_children

 Title   : store_children
 Usage   :
 Function: Inserts or updates the child entities of the given object in the 
           datastore.

           Usually, those child objects will reference the given
           object as a foreign key.

           We override this here from the ontology term adaptor
           because there is no synonyms or dbxrefs for SimpleValue
           tags. I.e., we revert to the default behaviour of doing
           nothing.

 Example :
 Returns : TRUE on success, and FALSE otherwise
 Args    : The Bio::DB::PersistentObjectI implementing object for which the
           child objects shall be made persistent.
           A reference to an array of foreign key values, in the order of
           foreign keys returned by get_foreign_key_objects().

attach_children

 Title   : attach_children
 Usage   :
 Function: Possibly retrieve and attach child objects of the given object.

           This is needed when whole object trees are supposed to be built
           when a base object is queried for and returned. An example would
           be Bio::SeqI objects and all the annotation objects that hang off
           of it.

           This is called by the find_by_XXXX() methods once the base object
           has been built. 

           We override this here from the ontology term adaptor
           because there is no synonyms or dbxrefs for SimpleValue
           tags. I.e., we revert to the default behaviour of doing
           nothing.

 Example :
 Returns : TRUE on success, and FALSE otherwise.
 Args    : The object for which to find and to which to attach the child
           objects.

remove_children

 Title   : remove_children
 Usage   :
 Function: This method is to cascade deletes in maintained objects.

           We just return TRUE here.

 Example :
 Returns : TRUE on success and FALSE otherwise
 Args    : The persistent object that was just removed from the database.
           Additional (named) parameter, as passed to remove().

instantiate_from_row

 Title   : instantiate_from_row
 Usage   :
 Function: Instantiates the class this object is an adaptor for, and populates
           it with values from columns of the row.

           This implementation call populate_from_row() to do the real
           job.

 Example :
 Returns : An object, or undef, if the row contains no values
 Args    : A reference to an array of column values. The first column is the
           primary key, the other columns are expected to be in the order 
           returned by get_persistent_slots().

           Optionally, the object factory to be used for instantiating
           the proper class. The adaptor must be able to instantiate a
           default class if this value is undef.

populate_from_row

 Title   : populate_from_row
 Usage   :
 Function: Instantiates the class this object is an adaptor for, and populates
           it with values from columns of the row.

 Example :
 Returns : An object, or undef, if the row contains no values
 Args    : The object to be populated.
           A reference to an array of column values. The first column is the
           primary key, the other columns are expected to be in the order 
           returned by get_persistent_slots().

get_unique_key_query

 Title   : get_unique_key_query
 Usage   :
 Function: Obtain the suitable unique key slots and values as determined by the
           attribute values of the given object and the additional foreign
           key objects, in case foreign keys participate in a UK. 

 Example :
 Returns : One or more references to hash(es) where each hash
           represents one unique key, and the keys of each hash
           represent the names of the object's slots that are part of
           the particular unique key and their values are the values
           of those slots as suitable for the key.
 Args    : The object with those attributes set that constitute the chosen
           unique key (note that the class of the object will be suitable for
           the adaptor).
           A reference to an array of foreign key objects if not retrievable 
           from the object itself.

Methods overriden from BasePersistenceAdaptor

remove

 Title   : remove
 Usage   : $objectstoreadp->remove($persistent_obj, @params)
 Function: Removes the persistent object from the datastore.
 Example :
 Returns : TRUE on success and FALSE otherwise
 Args    : The object to be removed, and optionally additional (named) 
           parameters.

add_association

 Title   : add_assocation
 Usage   :
 Function: Stores the association between given objects in the datastore.

           We override this here to make sure the value slot gets
           stored in associations.

 Example :
 Returns : TRUE on success and FALSE otherwise
 Args    : Named parameters. At least the following must be recognized:
               -objs   a reference to an array of objects to be associated with
                       each other
               -values a reference to a hash the keys of which are abstract
                       column names and the values are values of those columns.
                       These columns are generally those other than
                       the ones for foreign keys to the entities to be
                       associated
  Caveats: Make sure you *always* give the objects to be associated in the
           same order.

find_by_association

 Title   : find_by_association
 Usage   :
 Function: Locates those records associated between a SimpleValue
           annotation and another object.

           We override this here in order to be able to constrain by
           the ontology of a term (which is the category of the tag).

 Example :
 Returns : A Bio::DB::Query::QueryResultI implementing object 
 Args    : Named parameters. At least the following must be recognized:

               -objs   a reference to an array of objects to be associated with
                       each other
               -obj_factory the factory to use for instantiating object from
                       the found rows
               -constraints  a reference to an array of additional
                       L<Bio::DB::Query::QueryConstraint> objects
               -values  the values to bind to the constraint clauses,
                       as a hash reference keyed by the constraints

  Caveats: Make sure you *always* give the objects to be associated in the
           same order.

find_by_primary_key

 Title   : find_by_primary_key
 Usage   : $objectstoreadp->find_by_primary_key($pk)
 Function: Locates the entry associated with the given primary key and
           initializes a persistent object with that entry.

           SimpleValues are not identifiable by primary key. It is
           suspicious if someone calls this method, so we throw an
           exception until we know better.

 Example :
 Returns : An instance of the class this adaptor adapts, represented by an
           object implementing Bio::DB::PersistentObjectI, or undef if no
           matching entry was found.
 Args    : The primary key.
           Optionally, the Bio::Factory::ObjectFactoryI compliant object
           factory to be used for instantiating the proper class. If the object
           does not implement Bio::Factory::ObjectFactoryI, it is assumed to
           be the object to be populated with the query results.

Internal methods

 These are mostly private or 'protected.' Methods which are in the
 latter class have this explicitly stated in their
 documentation. 'Protected' means you may call these from derived
 classes, but not from outside.

 Most of these methods cache certain adaptors or otherwise reduce call
 path and object creation overhead. There's no magic here.

_ontology_fk

 Title   : _ontology_fk
 Usage   : $obj->_ontology_fk($svann)
 Function: Get/set the ontology foreign key constant.

           This is a private method.

 Example : 
 Returns : value of _ontology_fk (a Bio::Ontology::OntologyI compliant object)
 Args    : the L<Bio::Annotation::SimpleValue> object for which
           to return the ontology
           new value (a Bio::Ontology::OntologyI compliant object, optional)