annotate base/database/classes.lisp @ 288:d1e5bbcc5ea4

Rationalise base and geerdes classes, constructors and methods. Ignore-this: d9d4d88566a6d110844d91d4c70513cd Towards a more standardised interface. Some of these changes (generalised constructors and reader functions) are necessary for amuse-database-admin functionality and some other CHARM-like things. darcs-hash:20090716154406-16a00-8a9b4fb1fc1f5ba75af66a1bbd87e1bb68e02493.gz
author j.forth <j.forth@gold.ac.uk>
date Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:44:06 +0100
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j@287 1 (cl:in-package #:amuse-database-admin)
j@287 2
j@287 3 (defclass amuse-dataset-identifier (identifier)
j@287 4 ((dataset-id :reader dataset-id
j@287 5 :initarg :dataset-id))
j@287 6 (:documentation "A dataset is a set of pieces used for a particualar
j@287 7 analytical task. A dataset is not necessarily the same thing as a
j@287 8 corpus or collection (are these things different?). Corpus indicates
j@287 9 that a set of pieces have been curated in some way and in that sense
j@287 10 `belong together'. A dataset is just simply a set of pieces gathered
j@287 11 together to analyse, and the pieces can be from any corpus or
j@287 12 backend (hence the amuse- prefix"))
j@287 13
j@287 14 (defclass amuse-dataset (list-slot-sequence)
j@287 15 ((identifier :initarg :identifier
j@287 16 :reader identifier)
j@287 17 (description :initarg :description
j@287 18 :reader description)))