001/**
002 * Copyright (C) 2010-2015 The Roslin Institute <contact andy.law@roslin.ed.ac.uk>
003 *
004 * This file is part of JEnsembl: a Java API to Ensembl data sources developed by the
005 * Bioinformatics Group at The Roslin Institute, The Royal (Dick) School of
006 * Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh.
007 *
008 * Project hosted at: http://jensembl.sourceforge.net
009 *
010 * This is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
011 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 3) as published by
012 * the Free Software Foundation.
013 *
014 * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
015 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
016 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
017 * GNU General Public License for more details.
018 *
019 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
020 * in this software distribution. If not, see: http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
021 */
022package uk.ac.roslin.ensembl.config;
023
024import uk.ac.roslin.ensembl.model.ObjectType;
025
026/**
027 *
028 * @author paterson
029 */
030public abstract class EnsemblType implements ObjectType{
031
032    protected String label;
033
034
035    /**
036     * We often use the constants in a String context, so this routine allows
037     * us to do that easily
038     * @return The string 'label' of this  object
039     */
040
041    @Override
042    public String toString() {
043        return label;
044    }
045
046}