uk.ac.ebi.intact.util
Class GoServerProxy

java.lang.Object
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public class GoServerProxy

extends java.lang.Object

The proxy to the Go server. An example for the use of this class:

 GoServerProxy proxy = new GoServerProxy( "http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ego/DisplayGoTerm" );
 // Could use the default: GoServerProxy proxy = new GoServerProxy( );
 GoResponse response = proxy.query( "GO:0000074" );
 System.out.println ( response );
 

Version:

$Id: GoServerProxy.java,v 1.3 2004/02/23 14:28:52 skerrien Exp $

Author:

Samuel Kerrien (skerrien@ebi.ac.uk)

See Also:

uk.ac.ebi.intact.util.test.GoServerProxyTest

Nested Class Summary

class	GoServerProxy.GoHandler Parse the XML output given by the EGO web site.
static class	GoServerProxy.GoIdNotFoundException
static class	GoServerProxy.GoResponse

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	DEFAULT_EGO_URL
static java.lang.String	EGO_QUERY
static java.lang.String	GOID_FLAG

Constructor Summary

GoServerProxy()

GoServerProxy(java.lang.String url)
Constructs an instance of this class using the URL to connect to the Newt server.

Method Summary

GoServerProxy.GoResponse	query(java.io.InputStream is, java.lang.String goId) Queries the ego (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ego) server with given GO term id.
GoServerProxy.GoResponse	query(java.lang.String goId) Queries the ego (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ego) server with given GO term id.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

GOID_FLAG

public static final java.lang.String GOID_FLAG

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Constant Field Values

DEFAULT_EGO_URL

public static final java.lang.String DEFAULT_EGO_URL

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Constant Field Values

EGO_QUERY

public static final java.lang.String EGO_QUERY

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

GoServerProxy

public GoServerProxy(java.lang.String url)

Constructs an instance of this class using the URL to connect to the Newt server.

Parameters:

url - the URL to connect to the server.

GoServerProxy

public GoServerProxy()

Method Detail

query

public GoServerProxy.GoResponse query(java.lang.String goId)
                               throws java.io.IOException,
                                      GoServerProxy.GoIdNotFoundException

Queries the ego (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ego) server with given GO term id.

Parameters:

goId - the GO term to query the ego server.

Returns:

the GO term definition.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - for network errors.

GoServerProxy.GoIdNotFoundException - thrown when the server fails to find a response for GO id.

GoServerProxy.GoIdNotFoundException

query

public GoServerProxy.GoResponse query(java.io.InputStream is,
                                      java.lang.String goId)
                               throws java.io.IOException,
                                      GoServerProxy.GoIdNotFoundException

Queries the ego (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ego) server with given GO term id.

Parameters:

is - the content of the GO term's XML definition.

goId - the GO term to query the ego server.

Returns:

the GO term definition.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - for network errors.

GoServerProxy.GoIdNotFoundException - thrown when the server fails to find a response for GO id.

GoServerProxy.GoIdNotFoundException