Currently, there are eighteen entity types supported in Synapse but most of those types are old and have been unofficially deprecated for a few years now. We have not provided the means to convert these old entities to the new types so there are many of these old object in Synapse.
Since each client can encounter one of these old objects at any time, client developers have be forced to support both the 'old' way and the 'new' way of working with entities for years now. This adds complexity and increases the support cost for each client. This document outlines a plan for migrating all old types into the types we currently support in Synapse.
Entity types as of 2/2/15:
| Alias(es) | Full Name | Container | Status | count | Last Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
dataset, study | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.Study | true | Deprecated | 11479 | 2015-01-13 04:05:16 |
| layer, data | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.Data | false | Deprecated | 835532 | 2015-01-28 23:10:06 |
| project | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.Project | true | Supported | 8964 | 2015-01-28 23:25:29 |
| preview | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.Preview | false | Deprecated | 93 | 2012-01-19 05:52:23 |
| folder | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.Folder | true | Supported | 42101 | 2015-01-28 23:10:11 |
| analysis | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.Analysis | true | Deprecated | 29 | 2013-05-09 12:44:15 |
| step | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.Step | false | Deprecated | 34 | 2012-09-16 15:31:39 |
| code | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.Code | false | Deprecated | 769 | 2015-01-28 23:09:42 |
| link | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.Link | false | Supported | 253 | 2015-01-14 15:44:07 |
| phenotypedata | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.PhenotypeData | false | Deprecated | 569 | 2013-08-09 21:12:03 |
| genotypedata | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.GenotypeData | false | Deprecated | 1642 | 2014-05-08 06:21:11 |
| expressiondata | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.ExpressionData | false | Deprecated | 18724 | 2013-10-10 16:32:21 |
| robject | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.RObject | false | Deprecated | 52 | 2013-03-02 22:28:36 |
| summary | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.Summary | false | Deprecated | 102 | 2014-11-06 21:56:38 |
| genomicdata | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.GenomicData | false | Deprecated | 2 | 2013-01-25 22:50:59 |
| page | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.Page | false | Deprecated | 0 | |
| file | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.FileEntity | false | Supported | 198820 | 2015-01-28 23:10:26 |
| table | org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.table.TableEntity | false | Supported | 2260 | 2015-01-28 23:17:52 |
| community | org.sagebionetworks.bridge.model.Community | true | Deprecated | 1 | 2014-02-06 20:47:44 |