svengato intermine-ws-python enhancements

intermine/pathfeatures.py

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ def append(self, *sos):
                         "Sort orders must be either SortOrder instances,"
                         + " or tuples of arguments: I got:" + so + sos)
     def __repr__(self):
-        return '<' + self.class__.__name__ + ': [' + str(self) + ']>'
+        return '<' + self.__class__.__name__ + ': [' + str(self) + ']>'
     def __str__(self):
         return " ".join(map(str, self.sort_orders))
     def clear(self):

intermine/query.py

@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ def from_xml(cls, xml, *args, **kwargs):
                 + "Only one <query> element is allowed. Found %d" % len(queries))
         q = queries[0]
         obj.name = q.getAttribute('name')
-        obj.description = q.getAttribute('description')
+        obj.description = q.getAttribute('longDescription')
         obj.add_view(q.getAttribute('view'))
         for p in q.getElementsByTagName('pathDescription'):
             path = p.getAttribute('pathString')
@@ -1703,6 +1703,47 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         """
         super(Template, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
         self.constraint_factory = constraints.TemplateConstraintFactory()
+        self.title = ''
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_xml(cls, xml, *args, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Deserialise a template query serialised to XML
+        ==============================================
+
+        This method is used to instantiate serialised templates.
+        It is used by intermine.webservice.Service objects
+        to instantiate Template objects and it can be used
+        to read in templates you have saved to a file.
+
+        @param xml: The xml as a file name, url, or string
+
+        @raise QueryParseError: if the query cannot be parsed
+
+        @rtype: L{Template}
+        """
+        # Extract all Query (superclass) fields
+        obj = super(Template, cls).from_xml(xml, *args, **kwargs)
+
+        # Extract fields specific to Template, like title
+        obj.do_verification = False
+        f = openAnything(xml)
+        doc = minidom.parse(f)
+        f.close()
+
+        templates = doc.getElementsByTagName('template')
+        if len(templates) != 1:
+            raise QueryParseError(
+                "wrong number of templates in xml. "
+                + "Only one <template> element is allowed. "
+                + "Found %d" % len(templates))
+        t = templates[0]
+        obj.title = t.getAttribute('title')
+
+        obj.verify()
+
+        return obj
+
     @property
     def editable_constraints(self):
         """