source: trunk/grails-app/domain/dbnp/data/Term.groovy @ 540

package dbnp.data

import dbnp.data.Ontology

/**
 * The Term object describes a term in the ontology that is referred to in other entities such as events.
 * The Term object should point to an existing term in an online ontology, therefore instances of this class can also
 * be seen as a cache of elements of the external ontology.
 * BioPortal example: Mus musculus: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/concepts/38802/NCBITaxon:10090
 *
 * Revision information:
 * $Rev: 540 $
 * $Author: duh $
 * $Date: 2010-06-08 11:04:08 +0000 (di, 08 jun 2010) $
 */
class Term implements Serializable {
        static searchable = true

        String name             // BioPortal: label (preferred name)
        Ontology ontology       // Parent ontology. To enable the unique constraints, we describe the Ontology-Term relation here
        String accession        // BioPortal: conceptId

        static constraints = {
                accession(unique: 'ontology')   // Accession should be unique within an ontology
                name(unique: 'ontology')        // Preferred name should be unique within an ontology
        name(size: 1..255)              // Name should be a non-empty string
        }

        def String toString() {
                return name
        }
}