Bio
DBLinkContainerI
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Summary
Bio::DBLinkContainerI - Abstract interface for any object wanting to use
database cross references
Package variables
No package variables defined.
Included modules
Synopsis
# get an objects containing database cross reference
foreach $obj ( @objs ) {
if( $obj->isa('Bio::DBLinkContainerI') ) {
foreach $dblink ( $obj->each_DBLink() ) {
# do stuff
}
}
}
Description
This interface defines the functions one can expect for any object wanting
to use database cross-references. This class doesn't actually provide
any implemention, it just provides the definitions of what methods one
can call.
The database cross-references are implemented as
Bio::Annotation::DBLinkobjects.
Methods
Methods description
Title : each_DBLink Usage : foreach $ref ( $self->each_DBlink() ) Function: gets an array of DBlink of objects Example : Returns : an array of Bio::Annotation::DBLink objects Args : none |
Methods code
_abstractDeath | description | prev | next | Top |
sub _abstractDeath
{ my $self = shift;
my $package = ref $self;
my $caller = (caller)[1];
confess "Abstract method '$caller' defined in interface
Bio::DBLinkContainerI not implemented by package $package";
}
1; } |
sub each_DBLink
{ my ($self) = @_;
$self->_abstractDeath(); } |
General documentation
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AUTHOR - Heikki Lehvaslaiho | Top |
Email:
heikki@ebi.ac.ukAddress:
EMBL Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton
Cambs. CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
The rest of the documentation details each of the object
methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _