Issue 4523: issue: a new (convenient) method (bqs-ftf)
Source: Japan Biological Informatics Consortium (Mr. Martin Senger, martin.senger(at)gmail.com)
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
Severity: 
Summary: During BQS implementation we found that a convenient method retrieving
only identifiers of the citations from the query collection would
dramatically improve the performance and make the implementation easier.
   It is, indeed, a convenient method, not a new functionality - because
the same can be achieved by creating a collection using a list of
'excluded' attributes. Such list would need to contain _all_ attributes
except of an identifier which may not be so easy to implement (both on
server and client side). Also, it would require to create always a new
collection just for the purpose of retrieving pure identifiers. To have
this convenient method make simply life easier.

Resolution:
   To add a new method into module DsLSRBibQuery in the interface
BibRefCollection:

        DsLSRBibObjects::BibRefIdentifierList retrieve_all_ids()
	  raises (LimitExceeded);

Resolution: see above
Revised Text: 
Actions taken:
August 20, 2001: received issue
May 13, 2002: closed issue
Discussion: 
To add a new method into the module DsLSRBibQuery in the interface BibRefCollection: 
        DsLSRBibObjects::BibRefIdentifierList retrieve_all_ids()
          raises (LimitExceeded);

To add the following text to tyhe chapter 2.2.9 "Retrieving citations": 
It returns a list of identifiers of all bibliographic references from a given collection. An implementation can raise a LimitExceeded exception if the number of returned identifiers causes problems.
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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:41:02 +0100 (BST)
From: Martin Senger <senger@ebi.ac.uk>
To: bqs-ftf@emerald.omg.org
cc: Juergen Boldt <juergen@omg.org>
Subject: issue: a new (convenient) method
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[ Juergen, could you please post it to the 'issues'. Thanks. ]

Problem:
   During BQS implementation we found that a convenient method
   retrieving
only identifiers of the citations from the query collection would
dramatically improve the performance and make the implementation
   easier.
   It is, indeed, a convenient method, not a new functionality -
   because
the same can be achieved by creating a collection using a list of
'excluded' attributes. Such list would need to contain _all_
   attributes
except of an identifier which may not be so easy to implement (both on
server and client side). Also, it would require to create always a new
collection just for the purpose of retrieving pure identifiers. To
   have
this convenient method make simply life easier.

Resolution:
   To add a new method into module DsLSRBibQuery in the interface
BibRefCollection:

        DsLSRBibObjects::BibRefIdentifierList retrieve_all_ids()
	  raises (LimitExceeded);

   Martin


-- 
Martin Senger

EMBL Outstation - Hinxton                Senger@EBI.ac.uk     
European Bioinformatics Institute        Phone: (+44) 1223 494636      
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus             (Switchboard:     494444)
Hinxton                                  Fax  : (+44) 1223 494468
Cambridge CB10 1SD
United Kingdom
http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~senger


Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 15:30:42 +0000 (GMT)
From: Martin Senger <senger@ebi.ac.uk>
To: bqs-ftf@omg.org
cc: openbqs-dev@ebi.ac.uk
Subject: Call to vote: Issue 4523 - a new (convenient) method
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This message *is* a vote.
The voting deadline is Friday, 30 November, at 5:00pm GMT.

I encourage you to vote publically.  In any case, your votes will
appear
in my vote summary and in the FTF final report.  When you reply to
this
message, please delete all of the proposed resolution text.
I hope to hear from all FTF members soon. Thank you.
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Summary:
   During BQS implementation we found that a convenient method
retrieving only identifiers of the citations from the query collection
would dramatically improve the performance and make the implementation
easier.
   It is, indeed, a convenient method, not a new functionality -
because the same can be achieved by creating a collection using a list
of 'excluded' attributes. Such list would need to contain _all_
attributes except of an identifier which may not be so easy to
implement (both on server and client side). Also, it would require to
create always a new collection just for the purpose of retrieving pure
identifiers. To have this convenient method makes life easier.

Proposed resolution:
   To add a new method into the module DsLSRBibQuery in the interface
BibRefCollection:

        DsLSRBibObjects::BibRefIdentifierList retrieve_all_ids()
          raises (LimitExceeded);

-- 
Martin Senger

EMBL Outstation - Hinxton                Senger@EBI.ac.uk     
European Bioinformatics Institute        Phone: (+44) 1223 494636      
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus             (Switchboard:     494444)
Hinxton                                  Fax  : (+44) 1223 494468
Cambridge CB10 1SD
United Kingdom
http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~senger