Bob MacCallum wrote: > Hi, > > Would it be possible for the annotation importer plugin to be modified to > offer three options for "item not found" error handling: > > skip > fail > create > > instead of the current skip/fail only?
It would be possible, but.... The hard part is that all items are created differently. Some properties are optional, some are not. For some it may be possible to automatically select sensible default values, but for others user input is required. Some properties can maybe be mapped to columns in the file. > (or have I missed something? [always worth adding this disclaimer!]) > > when importing biosources, this would save a lot of GUI work > (prior to the MAGE-TAB importer being completed) I guess this is one of the simple cases that would not be very hard to implement. Harder cases would be LabeledExtract (which requires a Label), PluginDefinition (which requires a plug-in JAR file). I think a special piece of code is more or less required for every type of item and in some cases, like the PluginDefinition, it will not be possible to have a 'create' option at all. So, in principle it is possibly to have a 'create' option, but all cases are special cases and require special code. I guess this falls under the 'contributions are welcome' paragraph. /Nicklas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ The BASE general discussion mailing list basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net unsubscribe: send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
