Perl Client Example
- Production Web service client - coming soon
# '''PROTOTYPE Web service client'''
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use URI::Escape;
use XML::LibXML;
$| = 1;
my $RecommenderURL =
'http://ncbolabs-dev2.stanford.edu:8080/OBS_v1/recommender1.1/';
#TODO: Replace with production web service signature when available for production
# Sample text
my $text =
uri_escape(
"Melanoma is a malignant tumor of melanocytes which are found predominantly in skin but also in the bowel and the eye"
);
# create a user agent
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
# create a parse to handle the output
my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();
# create a POST request
my $req = new HTTP::Request POST => "$RecommenderURL";
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
# Set parameters
$req->content(
"method=1&" #values: 1, 2, 3, 4
. "output=score&" #values: score, nb-annotating-concepts, normalized-score, overlap
. "respository=ncbo&" #values: ncbo, umls, all
. "text=$text&" . "format=xml&" #values: asText, asTextSimple, asXML
. "email=testClient\@NCBO.org"
);
# send request and get response
my $res = $ua->request($req);
# Check the outcome of the response
if ( $res->is_success ) {
print STDERR "Successful Response...\n";
my $time = localtime();
print "Call successful at $time\n";
print $res->decoded_content;
}
else {
my $time = localtime();
print $res->status_line, " at $time\n";
}
sub ParseOBAResponse {
print STDERR "Parsing response\n";
my ( $res, $parser ) = @_;
my $dom = $parser->parse_string( $res->decoded_content );
my $root = $dom->getDocumentElement();
my %MatchedConcepts;
my %MatchedPhrase;
my $results =
$root->findnodes(
'/success/data/annotatorResultBean/annotations/annotationBean/concept');
foreach my $c_node ( $results->get_nodelist ) {
# Sample XPATH to extract concept info if needed
print "ID = ", $c_node->findvalue('localConceptId'), "\n";
print "Name = ", $c_node->findvalue('preferredName'), "\n";
print "Type = ", $c_node->findvalue(
'./semanticTypes/semanticTypeBean[1]/localSemanticTypeId'), "\n";
print "Type name = ",
$c_node->findvalue('./semanticTypes/semanticTypeBean[1]/name'),
"\n\n";
$MatchedConcepts{ $c_node->findvalue('localConceptId') } =
$c_node->findvalue('preferredName');
}
my $results =
$root->findnodes(
'/success/data/annotatorResultBean/annotations/annotationBean/context');
foreach my $c_node ( $results->get_nodelist ) {
# Sample XPATH to extract concept info if needed
print "ID = ", $c_node->findvalue('./term/localConceptId'), "\n";
print "Match = ", $c_node->findvalue('./term/name'), "\n";
print "From = ", $c_node->findvalue('from'), "\n";
print "To = ", $c_node->findvalue('to'), "\n";
$MatchedPhrase{ $c_node->findvalue('./term/localConceptId') } =
$c_node->findvalue('./term/name');
}
return ( \%MatchedConcepts, \%MatchedPhrase );
}