Class: Biomart::Server

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Includes:
Biomart
Defined in:
lib/biomart/server.rb

Overview

Class representation for a biomart server. Will contain many Biomart::Database and Biomart::Dataset objects.

Constant Summary

Constants included from Biomart

VERSION

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods included from Biomart

#request

Constructor Details

#initialize(url) ⇒ Server

Returns a new instance of Server.



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# File 'lib/biomart/server.rb', line 9

def initialize( url )
  @url = url or raise ArgumentError, "must pass :url"
  unless @url =~ /martservice/
    @url = @url + "/martservice"
  end
  
  @databases = {}
  @datasets  = {}
end

Instance Attribute Details

#url ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute url.



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# File 'lib/biomart/server.rb', line 7

def url
  @url
end

Instance Method Details

#databases ⇒ Object

Returns a hash (keyed by the biomart ‘name’ for the database) of all of the Biomart::Database objects belonging to this server.



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# File 'lib/biomart/server.rb', line 30

def databases
  if @databases.empty?
    fetch_databases
  end
  return @databases
end

#datasets ⇒ Object

Returns a hash (keyed by the biomart ‘name’ for the dataset) of all of the Biomart::Dataset objects belonging to this server.



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# File 'lib/biomart/server.rb', line 48

def datasets
  if @datasets.empty?
    fetch_datasets
  end
  return @datasets
end

#list_databases ⇒ Object

Returns an array of the database names (biomart ‘name’) for this dataset.



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# File 'lib/biomart/server.rb', line 21

def list_databases
  if @databases.empty?
    fetch_databases
  end
  return @databases.keys
end

#list_datasets ⇒ Object

Returns an array of the dataset names (biomart ‘name’) for this dataset.



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# File 'lib/biomart/server.rb', line 39

def list_datasets
  if @datasets.empty?
    fetch_datasets
  end
  return @datasets.keys
end