gov.nih.nlm.nls.lvg.Db
Class DbAcronym

java.lang.Object
  gov.nih.nlm.nls.lvg.Db.DbAcronym

public class DbAcronym
extends java.lang.Object

This class provides high level interfaces to Acronym table in LVG database.

History:

Version:

V-2006p

Author:

NLM NLS Development Team

See Also:

AcronymRecord, Desgin Document

Constructor Summary

DbAcronym()

Method Summary

static java.util.Vector	GetAcronyms(java.lang.String inStr, java.sql.Connection conn) Get all acronym records for an expansion (no punctuation lower case) from LVG database.
static java.util.Vector	GetExpansions(java.lang.String inStr, java.sql.Connection conn) Get all acronym records for an acronym (no punctuation lower case) from LVG database.
static boolean	IsAcronym(java.lang.String inStr, java.sql.Connection conn) Check if the input string is an acronym in LVG database
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) Test driver for this class.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DbAcronym

public DbAcronym()

Method Detail

IsAcronym

public static boolean IsAcronym(java.lang.String inStr,
                                java.sql.Connection conn)
                         throws java.sql.SQLException

Check if the input string is an acronym in LVG database

Parameters:

inStr - string to be checked (no punctuation lower case)

conn - database connection

Returns:

true or false to represent the inStr is or is not an acronym in LVG database

Throws:

java.sql.SQLException - if there is a database error happens

GetAcronyms

public static java.util.Vector GetAcronyms(java.lang.String inStr,
                                           java.sql.Connection conn)
                                    throws java.sql.SQLException

Get all acronym records for an expansion (no punctuation lower case) from LVG database. The result is sorted by ignoring cases and using alphabetic order.

Parameters:

inStr - expansion of an acronym (no punctuation lower case)

conn - database connection

Returns:

all acronym records with expansion is same as inStr

Throws:

java.sql.SQLException - if there is a database error happens

GetExpansions

public static java.util.Vector GetExpansions(java.lang.String inStr,
                                             java.sql.Connection conn)
                                      throws java.sql.SQLException

Get all acronym records for an acronym (no punctuation lower case) from LVG database. The result is sorted by ignoring cases and using alphabetic order.

Parameters:

inStr - acronym of an expension (no punctuation lower case)

conn - database connection

Returns:

all acronym records with acronym is same as inStr

Throws:

java.sql.SQLException - if there is a database error happens

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

Test driver for this class.