Bio::Tools::EUtilities::HistoryI(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Bio::Tools::EUtilities::HistoryI(3pm)

Bio::Tools::EUtilities::HistoryI - Simple extension of EUtilDataI interface class for classes which hold NCBI server history data.

version 1.77

  #should work for any class which is-a HistoryI
  if ($obj->has_History) {
      # do something here
  }
  ($webenv, $querykey) = $obj->history;
  $obj->history($webenv, $querykey);
  $webenv = $obj->get_webenv;
  $query_key = $obj->get_query_key;

This class extends methods for any EUtilDataI implementation allow instances to dealwith NCBI history data (WebEnv and query_key). These can be used as parameters for further queries against data sets stored on the NCBI server, much like NCBI's Entrez search history. These are important when one wants to run complex queries using esearch, retrieve related data using elink, and retrieve large datasets using epost/efetch.

The simplest implementation is Bio::Tools::EUtilities::History, which holds the history data for epost. See also Bio::Tools::EUtilities::Query (esearch) and Bio::Tools::EUtilities::LinkSet (elink), which also implement HistoryI.

 Title    : history
 Usage    : my ($webenv, $qk) = $hist->history
 Function : Get/Set two-element list of webenv() and query_key()
 Returns  : array
 Args     : two-element list of webenv, querykey


 Title    : get_webenv
 Usage    : my $webenv = $hist->get_webenv
 Function : returns web environment key needed to retrieve results from
            NCBI server
 Returns  : string (encoded key)
 Args     : none


 Title    : get_query_key
 Usage    : my $qk = $hist->get_query_key
 Function : returns query key (integer) for the history number for this session
 Returns  : integer
 Args     : none

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This software is copyright (c) 2006-2013 by Chris Fields.

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2022-10-16 perl v5.36.0