Added a tripal_bundle_variables table to handle additional bundle information and removed the data serialized array column previously used for this purpose.

tripal_entities/tripal_entities.install

@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ function tripal_entities_schema() {
 
   // Adds a table for managing the TripalEntity entity types (bundles).
   $schema['tripal_bundle'] = tripal_entities_tripal_bundle_schema();
+  
+  // Adds a table for additional information related to bundles.
+  $schema['tripal_bundle_variables'] = tripal_entities_tripal_bundle_variables_schema();
 
   // Links TripalEntity entities to the chado record.
   $schema['chado_entity'] = tripal_entities_chado_entity_schema();
@@ -240,13 +243,6 @@ function tripal_entities_tripal_bundle_schema() {
         'size' => 'tiny',
         'description' => 'The weight of this tripal data type in relation to others.',
       ),
-      'data' => array(
-        'type' => 'text',
-        'not null' => FALSE,
-        'size' => 'big',
-        'serialize' => TRUE,
-        'description' => 'A serialized array of additional data related to this tripal data type.',
-      ),
     ) + entity_exportable_schema_fields(),
     'primary key' => array('id'),
     'unique keys' => array(
@@ -256,6 +252,68 @@ function tripal_entities_tripal_bundle_schema() {
   return $schema;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Additional Tripal Bundle Information.
+ *
+ * This table is used for storing any additonal information describing
+ * a tripal bundle. For example, this is a good place to store title/url formats.
+ */
+function tripal_entities_tripal_bundle_variables_schema() {
+
+  $schema = array(
+    'description' => 'This table is used for storing any additonal information describing
+      a tripal bundle. For example, this is a good place to store title/url formats.',
+    'fields' => array (
+      'bundle_variable_id' => array (
+        'type' => 'serial',
+        'not null' => TRUE,
+      ),
+      'bundle_id' => array (
+        'type' => 'int',
+        'not null' => TRUE,
+      ),
+      'variable_id' => array (
+        'type' => 'int',
+        'not null' => TRUE,
+      ),
+      'value' => array (
+        'type' => 'text',
+        'not null' => FALSE,
+      ),
+      'rank' => array (
+        'type' => 'int',
+        'not null' => TRUE,
+        'default' => 0,
+      ),
+    ),
+    'primary key' => array (
+      0 => 'bundle_variable_id',
+    ),
+    'unique keys' => array (
+      'tripal_bundle_variables_c1' => array (
+        0 => 'bundle_id',
+        1 => 'variable_id',
+        2 => 'rank',
+      ),
+    ),
+    'indexes' => array (
+      'tripal_bundle_variables_idx1' => array (
+        0 => 'variable_id',
+      ),
+    ),
+    'foreign keys' => array (
+      'tripal_variables' => array (
+        'table' => 'tripal_variables',
+        'columns' => array (
+          'variable_id' => 'variable_id',
+        ),
+      ),
+    ),
+  );
+  
+  return $schema;
+}
+
 /**
  * Links Biological Data Entities to the chado "base" table the data is stored in.
  * This is where we would specify that a particular gene maps to the record in the