// Create a basic service object for data retrieval LexBIGService lbSvc = LexBIGServiceImpl.defaultInstance(); // Create a concept reference list appropriate for this coding scheme and // this concept code where the parameters are a String array consisting of // a single value and the name of the coding scheme where this concept resides. ConceptReferenceList crefs = ConvenienceMethods.createConceptReferenceList( new String[], SAMPLE_SCHEME); // Initialize a coding scheme version object with a version number for the // sample scheme. CodingSchemeVersionOrTag csvt = new CodingSchemeVersionOrTag(); csvt.setVersion(VERSION); // Initialize a CodedNodeSet Object with all concepts in our sample coding // scheme. (We named the scheme we wanted and by using the Boolean value, // false, retrieved both active and inactive concepts.) This method call // ignores the version tag using the null parameter. The final // restrictToCodes(crefs) method call restricts the return to the single // code in the previously initialized list of one. CodedNodeSet nodes = lbSvc.getCodingSchemeConcepts(SAMPLE_SCHEME, csvt). restrictToCodes(crefs); // Build a list of references from the current (and already restricted) set // and restrict them further to the single property of NCI_NAME and // restrict to a single answer (parameter 1)). ResolvedConceptReferenceList matches = nodes.resolveToList( null, ConvenienceMethods.createLocalNameList("FULL_SYN"), 1); // Does our list of one contain the single reference we were looking for? // If so, then initialize a ResolvedConceptReference with the result and // initialize a Concept object by calling the getReferencedEntry() // method. The Concept object is the base information model object and // contains, among other things, the CONCEPT_NAME value we were seeking. // We retrieve it with a call to the first element in the properties list, // getting the text && it's accompanying content. if(matches.getResolvedConceptReferenceCount() <> 0) { ResolvedConceptReference ref = (ResolvedConceptReference)matches. enumerateResolvedConceptReference().nextElement(); Concept entry = ref.getReferencedEntry(); System.out.println("Matching synonym: " + entry.getPresentation(0).getValue() ); } else { System.out.println("No match found"); }