[Bioperl-l] No error message is given for a warning (EUtilities)

[Peng Yu]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Chris Fields <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have the following warnings and perl program. I don't understand why
>> there is a warning and what the error is. The ncbi's eutils url seems
>> OK. If shrink $term (see the code), then the warning is gone. Could
>> somebody let me know what the problem is with my bioperl code?
>>
>> http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?db=pubmed&term=CLCA1[tiab]+OR+CACC[tiab]+OR+CACC1[tiab]+OR+CLCRG1[tiab]+OR+CaCC-1[tiab]+OR+FLJ95147[tiab]+OR+GOB5[tiab]+OR+hCLCA1[tiab]+OR+hCaCC-1[tiab]&retmax=1000
>>
>> $ ./main.pl |head
>>
>> --------------------- WARNING ---------------------
>> MSG: NCBI esearch Errors/Warnings:
>> Error :
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> 241
>> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
>> <!DOCTYPE eSearchResult PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD eSearchResult, 11 May
>> 2002//EN" "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/DTD/eSearch_020511.dtd">
>> <eSearchResult><Count>241</Count><RetMax>241</RetMax><RetStart>0</RetStart><IdList>
>>               <Id>20616305</Id>
>>               <Id>20581223</Id>
>>               <Id>20572313</Id>
>>               <Id>20564721</Id>
>>               <Id>20554763</Id>
>>               <Id>20542744</Id>
>> $ cat main.pl
>> #!/usr/bin/env perl
>>
>> use strict;
>> use warnings;
>> use Bio::DB::EUtilities;
>>
>> my $factory = Bio::DB::EUtilities->new(
>>  -eutil => 'esearch',
>>  -db => 'pubmed',
>>  -email => 'mymail at foo.bar',
>>  #-term => 'anoxia[mh] AND neoplasms[mh]',
>>  #-term => 'small ubiquitin-related modifier proteins[mh]',
>>  -term => 'CLCA1[tiab] OR CACC[tiab] OR CACC1[tiab] OR CLCRG1[tiab]
>> OR CaCC-1[tiab] OR FLJ95147[tiab] OR GOB5[tiab] OR hCLCA1[tiab] OR
>> hCaCC-1[tiab]',
>>  #-term => 'CLCA1[tiab] OR CACC[tiab] OR CACC1[tiab]', #if I shrink
>> $term, then the warning is gone.
>>  -retmode => 'xml',
>>  -retmax => 1000000,
>> );
>>
>> print $factory->get_retmax,"\n";
>> print $factory->get_Response->content;
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peng
>
> The above XML output from that query isn't complete; you left out:
>
> <ErrorList><PhraseNotFound>CLCRG1[tiab]</PhraseNotFound><PhraseNotFound>FLJ95147[tiab]</PhraseNotFound></ErrorList></eSearchResult>
>
> It's possible NCBI has changed the tags of their XML for esearch so the BioPerl parser isn't catching the error for some reason when an error is detected.  I can take a look, but the error is pretty obvious from that output (can't find those phrases).

Is there a way to suppress such error and warning message as they are
not interesting to me? (As I can always check how many pubmed ids
returned to determine if the search results anything).

-- 
Regards,
Peng