biointerchange 0.1.0

data/lib/biointerchange/reader.rb

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+module BioInterchange
+
+# A reader takes information from an input stream and creates an object model.
+#
+# For example, the input stream might hold text-mining data in some format. This
+# data is deserialized by the reader and turned into an object model representation,
+# i.e. an instance of a Ruby class that describes the data.
+class Reader
+
+  # Create a new instance of a reader. Ideally you want to provide your own initialization
+  # method in derived classes that takes some extra parameters for configuring/parametrizing the
+  # data deserialization with +deserialize+.
+  def initialize
+  end
+  
+  # Reads data from the provided input stream and returns an input specific object model instance.
+  #
+  # +istream+:: input IO stream to deserialize 
+  def deserialize(istream)
+    raise BioInterchange::Exceptions::ImplementationReaderError, 'You must implement this method, which reads data from an input stream and returns an object model instance.'
+  end
+
+end
+
+end

data/lib/biointerchange/registry.rb

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+module BioInterchange
+
+class Registry
+
+  def self.register_reader(uid, service)
+    @@readers[uid] = service
+  end
+
+  def self.register_writer(uid, service)
+    @@writers[uid] = service
+  end
+
+  def self.readers
+    @@readers
+  end
+
+  def self.writers
+    @@writers
+   end
+
+private
+
+  @@readers = {}
+  @@writers = {}
+
+end
+
+end
+