[moby] Re: [MOBY-dev] a question and a comment about the new Objectinheritance

[Eddie Kawas]

I like Yans idea, but what happens if the object doesn't
inherit from String, isn't an int or a float? What if the
object was a schematikonMotifID that inherits from
SchematikonSegmentID that inherits from Object. What would
the data:type be in this case?

<schematikonMotifID articleName="" id="" namespace="">
        <String articleName="ID" id="" namespace=""/>
</schematikonMotifID>

Ed



> -----Original Message-----
> From: moby-dev-bounces at portal.open-bio.org [mailto:moby-
> dev-bounces at portal.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of
> ywong at infobiogen.fr
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:55 AM
> To: markw at illuminae.com; Core developer announcements
> Subject: Re: [moby] Re: [MOBY-dev] a question and a
> comment about the new Objectinheritance
> 
> > On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 16:50 +0100, Martin Senger wrote:
> >> Well, I myself is not the main player in this dicussion
> about inheriting
> >> from primitives but as far as I understand, this:
> >>
> >> > <String ns='' id=''>
> >> > 	<string>content here</string>
> >> > </String>
> >> >
> >>    is what everybody wanted in the meeting
> >
> > Ummmm... I think there was a lot of disagreement about
> what "everybody"
> > wanted... By the looks of it now, everybody wanted
> something different,
> > but were calling it the same thing :-)  Unfortunately,
> when I asked for
> > some example objects, nobody volunteered, so we couldn't
> sort it out at
> > the time.
> >
> > I remember vividly, however, that when I tried to write
> that (above XML)
> > on the screen, the room erupted in screams that I was
> making it all too
> > complicated, so I don't think that is what people
wanted.
> It may be
> > that we have all had time to digest the issue a bit more
> deeply now and
> > have come to the same conclusion?
> >
> > M
> >
> >
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> Sorry I could reply earlier, all our network is in a
> quagmire...
> 
> An alternative I would accept:
> 
> <moby:Text-formatted data:type="string">
>    blablablablablablalbalbalblablalbalba
> </moby:Text-formatted>
> 
>   An attribute is optional, we keep the actual version
> without killing
> everything (adding a subnode and all
> serializers/deserializers would
> have to be rewritten!)
> 
>   People using Java will know what is the type of the data
> by reading this
> attribute. If it doesn't exist, they should assume that by
> default, it
> is a string.
> 
>   Example of DNASequence:
> 
>   <moby:DNASequence>
>     <moby:String articleName="SequenceString">
> 
> ACTGTCAGCTAGCTAGCTCGATCGATCGATCGTACGTCGTACGTACGATCGT....
>     </moby:String>
>     <moby:Integer articleName="Length"
> data:type="int">152</moby:Integer>
>   </moby:DNASequence>
> 
>   Then we should agree of what "primitives" we have:
>   -string
>   -float
>   -int
> 
>   maybe are there others?
> 
>   It is a quick and dirty solution however it is IMHO
> cleaner than what I
> saw in the last example. It has the advantage to keep the
> "old" object
> layout but add informations that will greatly help people
> who implements
> type sensible clients.
> 
>   Greetings
> 
> Yan
> 
> 
> 
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