[MOBY-guts] biomoby commit

[Martin Senger]

senger
Tue Jul 19 08:39:59 EDT 2005
Update of /home/repository/moby/moby-live/Java/src/main/org/biomoby/shared
In directory pub.open-bio.org:/tmp/cvs-serv19358/src/main/org/biomoby/shared

Modified Files:
	Central.java 
Log Message:


moby-live/Java/src/main/org/biomoby/shared Central.java,1.9,1.10
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RCS file: /home/repository/moby/moby-live/Java/src/main/org/biomoby/shared/Central.java,v
retrieving revision 1.9
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.9 -r1.10
--- /home/repository/moby/moby-live/Java/src/main/org/biomoby/shared/Central.java	2005/04/07 16:37:02	1.9
+++ /home/repository/moby/moby-live/Java/src/main/org/biomoby/shared/Central.java	2005/07/19 12:39:59	1.10
@@ -28,20 +28,6 @@
  * <a href="http://biomoby.org/" target="_top">
  * http://biomoby.org</a>.
  *<p>
- *
- *  <H5>Last changes (in backwards order)</H5>
- *  <UL>
- *    <li> New methods retrieving location of a Moby registry have been added:
- *         {@link #getRegistryEndpoint},
- *         {@link #getRegistryNamespace},
- *    <li> Added new constants defining relationship types as integers.
- *    <LI> New methods retrieving various types of relationships have been added:
- *         {@link #getDataTypeRelationships},
- *         {@link #getServiceTypeRelationships}
- *    <LI> Added constants defining recognizable relationship types
- *         ({@link #ISA}, {@link #HASA}, {@link #HAS})
- *  </UL>
- * <p>
  * @author <A HREF="mailto:senger at ebi.ac.uk">Martin Senger</A>
  * @version $Id$
  */
@@ -81,8 +67,13 @@
     static final int iHAS = 3;
 
     /**************************************************************************
-     * Get a (redundant) list of all registered service names.
-     *<p>
+     * Get a (redundant) list of all registered service names. <p>
+     *
+     * @deprecated Replaced by {@link
+     * #getServiceNamesByAuthority}. The reason is that this method
+     * returns a random result if there are more services with the
+     * same name but belonging to different authorities. <p>
+     *
      * @return a hash table where keys are names of services while
      *         values are their authorities
      * @throws MobyException if communication with the Moby Registry fails
@@ -91,6 +82,20 @@
 	throws MobyException;
 
     /**************************************************************************
+     * Get a list of all authorities - and for each of them a list of
+     * their registered service names. <p>
+     *
+     * This method is a better replacement for the deprecated method
+     * {@link #getServiceNames}. <p>
+     *
+     * @return a hash table where keys are authority names and values
+     * are arrays of service names provided by each authority
+     * @throws MobyException if communication with the Moby Registry fails
+     *************************************************************************/
+    Map getServiceNamesByAuthority()
+	throws MobyException;
+
+    /**************************************************************************
      * Get the list of all providers (each provider is represented by an
      * authority's URI.
      *<p>