[ome-users] Format for arguments for OMERO model objects

[Paul Kibet Korir]

Thanks. I was actually interested in formating arguments for Python (not 
Java).

P

On 14/01/2016 14:04, Mark Carroll wrote:
> On 01/14/2016 01:38 PM, Paul Kibet Korir wrote:
>
>> I'm having a difficult time making sense of OMERO model objects
>> described here
>> <https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5.2/developers/Model/EveryObject.html>. 
>>
>> There seems to be no explicit definition of the argument formats.
>>
>> I'm presently working with omero.model.PolygonI() objects for which I
>> need to set a number of attributes e.g. fillColor, strokeColor etc. The
>> documentation specifies base types (e.g. int, string, bool) for the
>> arguments but no accompanying structure.
>
> Indeed: I am afraid that page does not document value formats. It was
> generated by introspecting into the Hibernate (ORM) model to investigate
> which mapped model objects refer to each other via which properties; it
> doesn't contain anything that Hibernate doesn't know. That page is most
> useful for figuring out how to write the JOINs in HQL to get from what
> one has to what one wants.
>
> (snip)
>> Is there any documentation on model arguments that I can refer to? If
>> not is there any plan to include this because client programming is nigh
>> impossible without it.
>
> The most useful source is
> http://www.openmicroscopy.org/Schemas/Documentation/Generated/OME-2015-01/ome.html 
>
> -- click on "Polygon", far down on the left. That tells you the format
> for the "points" property and links you back to "Shape" for the others,
> for instance describing that the stroke color is a signed 32-bit RGBA 
> value.
>
> To generate examples, one can create the data interactively (e.g., draw
> ROIs in Insight) then query them via HQL. For instance, doing the
> described conversion, a -993737532 integer that I just queried from
> OMERO is #C4C4C4C4 as a color and indeed in Insight's code I see,
>
>     DEFAULT_STROKE_COLOUR = new Color(196, 196, 196, 196);
>
> If you have trouble with any specific properties we'd be happy to take a
> look to see if we can make any sense of them, as it may have been some
> time since anybody read the OME-XML schema documentation carefully for
> the properties you need. The web client code has to deal with some of
> these formats "manually" as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
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