[Bioperl-l] Bio::AnnotationI::tagname

[Hilmar Lapp]

I did this, modified the implementations accordingly, and adapted 
Annotation::Collection to extract the key or set it on retrieval.

All tests pass. (I had to fix a number of tests as Bio::Annotation 
was indeed used by some tests; AnnotationCollection was barely 
tested. There's now more in t/Annotation.t.)

	-hilmar

On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 02:34 PM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> What about adding the following method
>
> =head2 tagname
>
>  Title   : tagname
>  Usage   : $obj->tagname($newval)
>  Function: Get/set the tagname for this annotation value.
>
>            Setting this is optional. If set, it obviates the need 
> to provide
>            a tag to Bio::AnnotationCollectionI when adding this 
> object. When
>            obtaining an AnnotationI object from the collection, the 
> collection
>            will set the value to the tag under which it was stored 
> unless the
>            object has a tag stored already.
>  Example :
>  Returns : value of tagname (a scalar)
>  Args    : new value (a scalar, optional)
>
>
> =cut
>
> to Bio::AnnotationI?
>
> I find it troublesome sometimes if annotation objects cannot easily 
> serialize under which tag they were attached (want to be attached) 
> to an AnnotationCollectionI.
>
> I'm in the process of adding this to all Bio::Annotation::* 
> objects. Does anyone think this is a bad idea?
>
> 	-hilmar
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