NAME

MOBY::Client::ServiceInstance - a small object describing a MOBY service

SYNOPSIS

 use MOBY::Client::ServiceInstance;
 my $Instance = MOBY::Client::ServiceInstance->new(
     authority => 'bioinfo.pbi.nrc.ca',
     authoritative => 0,
     URL => http://bioinfo.pbi.nrc.ca/runMe.pl,
     contactEmail => markw@illumin.com,
     name => 'marksFabulousService',
     type => 'Retrieve',
     input => [$SimpleArticle],
     category => 'moby',
     output => [$CollectionArticle, $SecondaryArticle],
     description => 'retrieves random sequences from a database',
         XML => $xml, # the XML from MOBY::Central::findService
         );

DESCRIPTION

a simple get/set object to hold information about a service instance.

This object is created by MOBY::Client::Central, and is not particularly useful for anyone else to create it... it is meant to be read-only

AUTHORS

Mark Wilkinson (markw at illuminae dot com)

BioMOBY Project: http://www.biomoby.org

METHODS

new

 Title     :    new
 Usage     :    my $MOBY = MOBY::Client::ServiceInstance->new(%args)
 Function  :    create ServiceInstance object
 Returns   :    MOBY::Client::ServiceInstance object
 Args      :    authority : required : string : default NULL
                            the URI of the service provider
                name      : required : string : default NULL
                            the name of the service
                type      : required : string : default NULL
                            the type of service from ontology
                input    : optional : listref : default empty listref
                            the SimpleArticle and CollectionArticle inputs for the service
                secondary    : optional : listref : default empty listref
                            the SecondaryArticle inputs for the service
                output    : optional : listref : default empty listref
                            the SimpleArticle and CollectionArticle outputs for the service
                description : required : string : default NULL
                            human-readable description of service

authority

 Title     :    authority
 Usage     :    $URI = $Service->authority($arg)
 Args      :    (optional) scalar string with authority URI
 Function  :    get/set authority
 Returns   :    string

name

 Title     :    name
 Usage     :    $name = $Service->name($arg)
 Args      :    (optional) scalar string with service name
 Function  :    get/set name
 Returns   :    string

type

 Title     :    type
 Usage     :    $type = $Service->type($arg)
 Args      :    (optional) scalar string with servivce type ontology term
 Function  :    get/set type
 Returns   :    string

category

 Title     :    category
 Usage     :    $category = $Service->category($arg)
 Args      :    (optional) scalar string with moby service category ['moby' | 'post' | 'moby-async']
 Function  :    get/set category
 Returns   :    string

input

 Title     :    input
 Usage     :    $input = $Service->input($args)
 Args      :    (optional) listref of SimpleArticle, and/or CollectionArticles
 Function  :    get/set input
 Returns   :    listref of MOBY::Client::SimpleArticle
                and/or MOBY::Client::CollectionArticle objects

output

 Title     :    output
 Usage     :    $output = $Service->output($args)
 Args      :    (optional) listref of SimpleArticle,
                CollectionArticle, or SecondaryArticle objects
 Function  :    get/set output
 Returns   :    listref of MOBY::Client::SimpleArticle
                and/or MOBY::Client::CollectionArticle objects

secondary

 Title     :    secondary
 Usage     :    $output = $Service->secondary($args)
 Args      :    (optional) listref of SecondaryArticle objects
 Function  :    get/set secondary inputs
 Returns   :    listref of MOBY::Client::SecondaryArticle

description

 Title     :    description
 Usage     :    $description = $Service->description($arg)
 Args      :    (optional) scalar string with description
 Function  :    get/set description
 Returns   :    string

authoritative

 Title     :    authoritative
 Usage     :    $auth = $Service->authoritative(1|0)
 Args      :    (optional) boolean 1 or 0
 Function  :    get/set authoritative flag
 Returns   :    current value

URL

 Title     :    URL
 Usage     :    $URL = $Service->URL($url)
 Args      :    (optional) string representing a URL
 Function  :    get/set service URL endpoint
 Returns   :    current value

contactEmail

 Title     :    contactEmail
 Usage     :    $email = $Service->contactEmail($email)
 Args      :    (optional) string representing an email address
 Function  :    get/set service email address
 Returns   :    current value

LSID

 Title     :    LSID
 Usage     :    $lsid = $Service->LSID()
 Args      :    none
 Function  :    get (readonly) service instance LSID
 Returns   :    current value as scalar string

signatureURL

 Title     :    signatureURL
 Usage     :    $sig = $Service->signatureURL()
 Args      :    (optional) string representing a URL
 Function  :    get/set the location of the RDF document that describes this service
 Returns   :    current value as scalar string

registry

 Title     :    registry
 Usage     :    $regname = $Service->registry([$description])
 Function  :    get/set registry
 Returns   :    string

unitTests

 Title     :    unitTests
 Usage     :    $test = $Service->unitTests()
 Function  :    get/set the MobyUnitTests for this service
 Returns   :    a listref of MOBY::Client::MobyUnitTest objects for this service