The Week 6
Greetings, We met twice last week (Thursday and Monday) because the mentors suggested some changes to the code last Thursday, which I had to include by Monday. They also wanted to go through the code and do some refactoring. Matthias proposed an idea which would lead to complete backward compatibility for annotations, and would also not cause any information loss, a thing which I thought would not possible to achieve simultaneously. Here's the idea: First of all, we are going to have a main Metadata class which is going to store all the meta-information like the external resources linked to that component (Controlled Vocabulary terms, or CVTerms), history of that component, and listofKeyValue pairs present inside the annotations, a feature introduced in FBA-v3. We are going to have classes for each of these three inner metadata information, and an object of each class inside the Metadata class. The annotation of a component will be an object of this metadata class and y...