find classes by their class_name

[wdduncan]

It is useful to be able to find the name of the class according to how it named in the code.

For example, in the nmdc-schema python class , there is a class named BiosampleProcessing. But, if you run list(view.all_class()), you can only get back biosample processing.

cc @cmungall

[wdduncan]

Not sure if this bit of code helps, but here is how I can build a dict with python name as a key and the linkml name as a value:

import inspect
from nmdc_schema import nmdc

python_name_dict = {}
for name, member in inspect.getmembers(nmdc):
    if inspect.isclass(member) and hasattr(member, 'class_name'):
        python_name_dict[name] = member.class_name

print(list(python_name_dict.items())[0:5])
>> [('Activity', 'activity'), ('Agent', 'agent'), ('AttributeValue', 'attribute value'), ('Biosample', 'biosample'), ('BiosampleProcessing', 'biosample processing')]

[cmungall]

I think this is fixed by linkml/linkml-runtime#77 can you confirm @wdduncan

[cmungall]

can you also edit the title of the issue to reflect what the ask is?

[wdduncan]

@cmungall renamed the title, but this issue looks to be stale. Perhaps best to close.

[sierra-moxon]

we also have the "uncamelcase" method in the runtime too, so we can go back and forth between class name representations in downstream code. was the ask here that these methods be abstracted away and all versions of the names returned as a tuple? If so, we don't have that. I can close for now with the notion that code is available for downstream applications to go back and forth between naming conventions before/after calling the all_classes method?

[wdduncan]

@sierra-moxon Thanks for closing. I opened the ticket quite a while ago, and I don't remember the specific use case :(