2 * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.7)
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3 * Copyright (C) 2011 J Procter, AM Waterhouse, J Engelhardt, LM Lui, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
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5 * This file is part of Jalview.
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7 * Jalview is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
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8 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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9 * as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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11 * Jalview is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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12 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
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13 * of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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14 * PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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16 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Jalview. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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18 package jalview.ws.seqfetcher;
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20 import jalview.datamodel.AlignmentI;
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22 import java.util.Hashtable;
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24 import com.stevesoft.pat.Regex;
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27 * generic Reference Retrieval interface for a particular database
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28 * source/version as cited in DBRefEntry. TODO: add/define property to describe
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29 * max number of queries that this source can cope with at once. TODO:
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30 * add/define mechanism for retrieval of Trees and distance matrices from a
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31 * database (unify with io)
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33 * @author JimP TODO: promote to API
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35 public interface DbSourceProxy
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39 * @return source string constant used for this DB source
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41 public String getDbSource();
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44 * Short meaningful name for this data source for display in menus or
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49 public String getDbName();
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53 * @return version string for this database.
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55 public String getDbVersion();
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58 * Separator between individual accession queries for a database that allows
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59 * multiple IDs to be fetched in a single query. Null implies that only a
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60 * single ID can be fetched at a time.
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62 * @return string for separating concatenated queries (as individually
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63 * validated by the accession validator)
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65 public String getAccessionSeparator();
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68 * Regular expression for checking form of query string understood by this
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69 * source. If the Regex includes parenthesis, then the first parenthesis
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70 * should yield the same accession string as the one used to annotate the
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71 * sequence. This is used to match query strings to returned sequences.
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73 * @return null or a validation regex
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75 public Regex getAccessionValidator();
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78 * DbSource properties hash - define the capabilities of this source Property
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79 * hash methods defined in DbSourceProxyImpl. See constants in
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80 * jalview.datamodel.DBRefSource for definition of properties.
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84 public Hashtable getDbSourceProperties();
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88 * @return a test/example query that can be used to validate retrieval and
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89 * parsing mechanisms
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91 public String getTestQuery();
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94 * optionally implemented
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99 public boolean isValidReference(String accession);
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102 * make one or more queries to the database and attempt to parse the response
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103 * into an alignment
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106 * - one or more queries for database in expected form
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107 * @return null if queries were successful but result was not parsable
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108 * @throws Exception
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109 * - propagated from underlying transport to database (note -
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110 * exceptions are not raised if query not found in database)
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113 public AlignmentI getSequenceRecords(String queries) throws Exception;
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117 * @return true if a query is currently being made
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119 public boolean queryInProgress();
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122 * get the raw reponse from the last set of queries
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124 * @return one or more string buffers for each individual query
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126 public StringBuffer getRawRecords();
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129 * Find out more info about the source.
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131 * @param dbsourceproperty
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132 * - one of the database reference source properties in
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133 * jalview.datamodel.DBRefSource
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134 * @return true if the source has this property
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136 public boolean isA(Object dbsourceproperty);
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