Class Registry

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                    Registry

A Class representing an InterMine registry.

Registries are web-services that mines can automatically register themselves with, and thus enable service discovery by clients.

SYNOPSIS

example:

   from intermine.webservice import Registry

   # Connect to the default registry service
   # at www.intermine.org/registry
   registry = Registry()

   # Find all the available mines:
   for name, mine in registry.items():
       print name, mine.version

   # Dict-like interface for accessing mines.
   flymine = registry["flymine"]

   # The mine object is a Service
   for gene in flymine.select("Gene.*").results():
       process(gene)

This class is meant to aid with interoperation between mines by allowing them to discover one-another, and allow users to always have correct connection information.