[MOBY-l] Boolean object

[markw at illuminae.com]

Sorry - you are right, of course.  I'm multi-tasking and hadn't seen that issue
in my quick think about the problem.

Thanks for your clear headed advice!

It wouldn't take much to update the API, I suspect.  I'll think about it when I
get home.

Greetings from sweltering Australia!

M



Quoting Benjamin Good <bmg at sfu.ca>:

> I am confused, I thought an Object was not a primitive
> 
> "The value of the Object element is ignored */with the exception of/*
> the Classes representing primitives (e.g. Integer, Float, String, etc.;
> discussed in the Class Ontology
> <http://www.biomoby.org/twiki/bin//view/Moby/MobySAPI#ObjectClassOntology>
> section below). For example, in the following object
> 
>            <Object namespace="GenBank/gi" moby:id="163483" > this has no
> value </Object>
> 
> the text "this has no value" is ignored by both client and service."
> 
> For this to work it seems like we would have to officially declare
> Boolean as a primitive and adapt the API accordingly.  Otherwise code
> for displaying/manipulating Objects (at least like what Eddie and I have
> been working on) won't work properly because it won't try to look for
> the text value of the new Boolean object.
> 
> Neh???
> 
> -Ben
> 
> markw at illuminae.com wrote:
> 
> >Quoting Paul Gordon <gordonp at ucalgary.ca>:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I'd make boolean a primitive and adjust the APIs, it's really an
> >>oversight that this wasn't in there before.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I agree 100%.  It should be a primitive (inherit from Object)... but I don't
> >think we need to adjust the API in any way to accomodate this.
> >
> >It is interesting to think what it means to have a namespace and ID on a
> >boolean, though :-)
> >
> >gi|163483 = yes!
> >
> >
> >M
> >
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