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NAME

GetParents- Fetches all the parent concepts for the input concept.

SYNOPSIS

Basic Usage

    use WebService::UMLS::get_parents;
    
    my $parents_ref = call_getconceptproperties($cui);# parents_ref is a hash reference
    my $read_parents = new GetParents;
    # $ref is a reference of an array of all parents' CUI for the input cui.
    my $ref  = $read_parents->read_object( $parents_ref );

DESCRIPTION

This module has package GetParents which has subroutines 'new', 'read_object','extract_object_class', 'format_object', 'format_homogeneous_hash', 'format_scalar', format_homogeneous_array.

Methods

new: This sub creates a new object of GetParents.

indent : This sub is used to add indentation while displaying the information.

read_object: This sub reads hash reference object passed to this sub and fetches the required parents' information.

format_object: This sub calls appropriate functions like format_homogenous_hash, format_scalar, format_homogenous_array depending on the object reference it is called with.

Formatting Subs : format _object, format_scalar, format_homogenous_hash, format_homogenous_array and extract_object_class are different methods which access the information returned by the web service.

SEE ALSO

get_validate_CUI.pm get_user_details.pm run_query.pm ws-getShortestPath.pl find_shortest_path.pm

AUTHORS

Mugdha Choudhari University of Minnesota Duluth <chou0130 at d.umn.edu>

Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth <tpederse at d.umn.edu>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2010, Mugdha Choudhari, Ted Pedersen

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to The Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.