pubmed2ref documentation.

sub _load_instance {

    my ($self, $source) = @_;

    my $result;
    my $article = $$source{'article'};
    if (defined $article) {
	if (defined $$article{'journal'}) {
	    $result = $self->_new_instance ('Bio::Biblio::PubmedJournalArticle');
	    $result->type ('JournalArticle');
	} elsif (defined $$article{'book'}) {
	    $result = $self->_new_instance ('Bio::Biblio::PubmedBookArticle');
	    $result->type ('BookArticle');
	} else {
	    $result->type ('PubmedArticle');
	}
    }
    $result = $self->_new_instance ('Bio::Biblio::Ref') unless defined $result;
    return $result;

}

sub convert {

    my ($self, $source) = @_;
    my $result = $self->SUPER::convert ($source->{'Citation'});	

    # here we do PUBMED's specific stuff
    my $pubmed_data = $$source{'PubmedData'};
    if (defined $pubmed_data) {

	# ... just take it (perhaps rename it)
	$result->pubmed_status ($$pubmed_data{'publicationStatus'}) if defined $$pubmed_data{'publicationStatus'};
	$result->pubmed_provider_id ($$pubmed_data{'providerId'}) if defined $$pubmed_data{'providerId'};
	$result->pubmed_article_id_list ($$pubmed_data{'pubmedArticleIds'}) if defined $$pubmed_data{'pubmedArticleIds'};
	$result->pubmed_url_list ($$pubmed_data{'pubmedURLs'}) if defined $$pubmed_data{'pubmedURLs'};

	# ... put all dates from all 'histories' into one array
	if (defined $$pubmed_data{'histories'}) {
	    my @history_list;
	    foreach my $history ( @{ $$pubmed_data{'histories'} } ) {
		my $ra_pub_dates = $$history{'pubDates'};
		foreach my $pub_date ( @{ $ra_pub_dates } ) {
		    my %history = ();
		    my $converted_date = &Bio::Biblio::IO::medline2ref::_convert_date ($pub_date);
		    $history{'date'} = $converted_date if defined $converted_date;
		    $history{'pub_status'} = $$pub_date{'pubStatus'} if defined $$pub_date{'pubStatus'};
		    push (@history_list,\% history);
		}
	    }
	    $result->pubmed_history_list (\@history_list);
	}
    }

    # Done!
    return $result;

}

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