NAME

SADI::Data::Object

SYNOPSIS

 use SADI::Data::Object;

 # create a sadi object with a namespace of NCBI_gi and id 545454
 my $data = SADI::Data::Object->new (namespace=>"NCBI_gi", id=>"545454");

 # set/get an article name for this data object
 $data->name ('myObject');
 print $data->name;

 # set/get an id for this data object
 $data->id ('myID');
 print $data->id;

 # check if this data object is a primitive type
 print "a primitive" if $data->primitive;
 print "not a primitive" if not $data->primitive;

 # get a formatted string representation of this data object
 print $data->toString;

DESCRIPTION

An object representing a SADI object (usually consisting of a namespace and id)

AUTHORS

 Edward Kawas (edward.kawas [at] gmail [dot] com)
 Martin Senger (martin.senger [at] gmail [dot] com)

ACCESSIBLE ATTRIBUTES

Details are in SADI::Base. Here just a list of them:

namespace

id

name

An article name for this datatype. Note that the article name depends on the context where this object is used.

primitive

A boolean property indicating if this data type is a primitive SADI type or not.

SUBROUTINES