/* * BioJava development code * * This code may be freely distributed and modified under the * terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence. This should * be distributed with the code. If you do not have a copy, * see: * * http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html * * Copyright for this code is held jointly by the individual * authors. These should be listed in @author doc comments. * * For more information on the BioJava project and its aims, * or to join the biojava-l mailing list, visit the home page * at: * * http://www.biojava.org/ * */ package org.biojava.ontology; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Set; import java.util.TreeSet; import org.biojava.bio.Annotation; /** * A term in another ontology. * *

* This is how you allow one ontology to refer to terms in another one. Since * these ontologies are designed to be modular and self-contained, it is * expected that you would not copy terms from one ontology into another. The * best-practice way to represent terms from another ontology in your one is to * use RemoteTerm instances. Ontology has a method importTerm that does this * for you. By default, imported terms will have names composed from the source * ontology and the imported term name. However, this should be over-rideable. *

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* The imported term will have the same name as the original term. They are * implicitly identical to each other. The most common use of imports will be * to slurp in the "core" ontology so that operations such as is-a * and has-a are available. *

* * @author Thomas Down * @author Matthew Pocock * @since 1.4 */ public interface RemoteTerm extends Term { /** * Return the imported term * @return the term */ public Term getRemoteTerm(); /** * Simple in-memory implementation of a remote ontology term. * * This can be used to implement Ontology.importTerm */ public final static class Impl extends AbstractTerm implements RemoteTerm, java.io.Serializable { /** * */ private static final long serialVersionUID = 922700041939183676L; private final Ontology ontology; private final Term remoteTerm; private final String name; private Set synonyms; public Impl(Ontology ontology, Term remoteTerm, String name) { this(ontology, remoteTerm, name, null); } public Impl(Ontology ontology, Term remoteTerm, String name, Object[] synonyms) { if (ontology == null) { throw new NullPointerException("Ontology must not be null"); } if (remoteTerm == null) { throw new NullPointerException("RemoteTerm must not be null"); } if(name == null) { name = remoteTerm.getOntology().getName() + "." + remoteTerm.getName(); } this.ontology = ontology; this.remoteTerm = remoteTerm; this.name = name; this.synonyms = new TreeSet(); if (synonyms!=null) this.synonyms.addAll(Arrays.asList(synonyms)); } public void addSynonym(Object synonym) { this.synonyms.add(synonym); } public void removeSynonym(Object synonym) { this.synonyms.remove(synonym); } public Object[] getSynonyms() { return this.synonyms.toArray(); } public String getName() { return getOntology().getName() + ":" + remoteTerm.getName(); } public String getDescription() { return remoteTerm.getDescription(); } public Ontology getOntology() { return ontology; } public Term getRemoteTerm() { return remoteTerm; } public String toString() { return name; } public Annotation getAnnotation() { return remoteTerm.getAnnotation(); } } }