NAME

Bio::DB::BioSQL::Oracle::TermAdaptorDriver - DESCRIPTION of Object

SYNOPSIS

Give standard usage here

DESCRIPTION

Describe the object here

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AUTHOR - Hilmar Lapp

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APPENDIX

The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _

remove_synonyms

Title   : remove_synonyms
Usage   :
Function: Removes all synonyms for an ontology term.
Example :
Returns : TRUE on success, and FALSE otherwise.
Args    : The calling persistence adaptor.

          The persistent term object for which to remove the synonyms
          (a Bio::DB::PersistentObjectI compliant object with defined
          primary key).

store_synonym

Title   : store_synonym
Usage   :
Function: Stores a synonym for an ontology term.
Example :
Returns : TRUE on success, and FALSE otherwise.
Args    : The calling persistence adaptor.

          The persistent term object for which to store the synonym
          (a Bio::DB::PersistentObjectI compliant object with defined
          primary key).

          The synonym to store (a scalar). 

get_synonyms

Title   : get_synonyms
Usage   :
Function: Retrieves the synonyms for an ontology term and adds them
          the term's synonyms.
Example :
Returns : TRUE on success, and FALSE otherwise.
Args    : The calling persistence adaptor.

          The persistent term object for which to retrieve the
          synonyms (a Bio::DB::PersistentObjectI compliant object
          with defined primary key).

bind_param

Title   : bind_param
Usage   :
Function: Binds a parameter value to a prepared statement.

          We override this in order to possibly truncate term
          definitions longer than 4000 characters, the limit of
          Oracle's VARCHAR2 data type. Note that this problem does
          not exist with Pg's and mysql's text types.

Example :
Returns : the return value of the DBI::bind_param() call
Args    : the DBI statement handle to bind to
          the index of the column (1-based)
          the value to bind
          additional arguments to be passed to the sth->bind_param call