[ensembl-dev] Undefined Adaptor Seems to Fail Silently

[mp at ebi.ac.uk]

Hi Kelly,

Your script is working fine in my hands. You can try using the -verbose
option in load_registry_from_db to see if you are having problems with the
registry:

$registry->load_registry_from_db(
    -verbose => 1,
    -host => 'ensembldb.ensembl.org',
    -user => 'anonymous',
    -port => '5306');

or test that you have a valid registry by printing $registry.
Let me know if this helps you to track down the problem.

Also, once you get the genomeDB adaptor, make sure that you use
"Homo_sapiens" as species name.

Cheers,

M;

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to create a genome_db object in order to test whether or
> not the Ensembl Perl API is working properly on our system so that we
> can eventually use the API to retrieve protein families. I am running
> Debian 4.0, with bioperl 1.2.3, Perl 5.8.8, and Ensembl API version 67
> installed. I am running a script (based off of that in the
> EnsemblTutorial.pdf included in my Compara release) to connect to the
> public Ensembl database, create a GenomeDBAdaptor, and use the
> GenomeDBAdaptor to fetch data. Here is the code:
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use lib qw( . /programs/bio/ensembl/src/ensembl/modules);
> use Bio::EnsEMBL::Registry;
>
> my $registry='Bio::EnsEMBL::Registry';
>
> $registry->load_registry_from_db(
>     -host => 'ensembldb.ensembl.org',
>     -user => 'anonymous',
>     -port => '5306');
>
> my $genome_db_adaptor = $registry->get_adaptor(
>     'Multi', 'compara', 'GenomeDB');
>
> my $this_genome_db = $genome_db_adaptor->fetch_by_name_assembly("Homo
> sapiens", "NCBI36");
>
>
> This script throws:
>  "Can't call method "fetch_by_name_assembly" on an undefined value at
> checker4.pl line 18."
>
> The arguments passed to fetch_by_name_assembly() appear to be defined,
> so I checked to see if the adaptor itself was defined: "if(defined
> $genome_db_adaptor)" returns false. I have therefore concluded that
> the adaptor itself is undefined, but I can't figure out the reason.
> Perl doesn't complain when creating the adaptor.
>
> If anyone could suggest a reason why the adaptor or method arguments
> appear to be undefined, I would appreciate it very much.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Chris Kelly
>
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