R/OmaDBObject.R

In DessimozLab/OmaDB: R wrapper for the OMA REST API

#' Get the Object Attributes
#'
#' The function to obtain the attributes and their data types for the object created.
#'
#' @param obj the object of interest
#' @return an list of object attributes and their data classes
#' @export
#' @examples
#' attributes = getObjectAttributes(getOMAGroup(id ='YEAST58'))


getObjectAttributes <- function(obj) {
    for (name in attributes(obj)$names) {

        class_name <- class(obj[[name]])

        if (class_name == "character" && startsWith(obj[[name]], "https://")) {
            class_name <- "URL"

        }

        print(paste(name, ":", class_name))

    }
}

#' Get the value for the Object Attribute
#'
#' The function to obtain the value for an object attribute.
#'
#' @param obj the object of interest
#' @param attribute the attribute of interest
#' @return an value for a given object attribute
#' @export
#' @examples
#' members = getAttribute(getOMAGroup(id ='YEAST58'),'members')


getAttribute <- function(obj, attribute) {

    if (is.character(obj[[attribute]]) && grepl("https://", obj[[attribute]])) {

        value <- requestFactory(obj[[attribute]])
        obj_name <- deparse(substitute(obj))
        set_new_val(obj, attribute) <- value
        assign(obj_name, obj, envir = .GlobalEnv)

    }

    return(obj[[attribute]])
}