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Refactoring of repository-attribute handling

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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by tracing the current repository handling in document generation and the manual object.repository assignment described here. Read the related terminology-access proposal in issue #131 and the example referenced from #74. Done means repository values are derived automatically for documents, sections, and properties, with terminology equivalents matching the shown behavior.

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Description

terminology

The repository attribute should be handled automatically and not manually.
In the current implementation the repository can anyway only be used as an attribute in the generation function of a document and not of a section or property. A repository of a section or property can only be set by object.repository = repo.

A solution here is tightly connected to the suggested changes in how to access and use terminologies in #131. The behaviour I would like to have would look like the following (note: the following example is based on the example in #74):

import odml.terminologies as term
doc1 = odml.Document("my_empty_doc")
doc1.repository
# output: nothing, because it can't be set manually
doc2 = term.get_terminology('http://portal.g-node.org/odml/terminologies/v1.0/terminologies.xml')
doc2.repository
# output: 'http://portal.g-node.org/odml/terminologies/v1.0/terminologies.xml'
doc2.sections[0].repository
# output: 'http://portal.g-node.org/odml/terminologies/v1.0/subject/subject.xml'

# for getting section/property equivalents of a terminology
sec1 = odml.Section("Subject", type="subject")
sec1.get_terminology_equivalent(repository="http://portal.g-node.org/odml/terminologies/v1.0/terminologies.xml")
# output: clone of section object "Subject" of the terminology
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