Using Kinds in the Perl API

A number of methods provided with the Perl API deal with entity and reference kinds.

The $ent->kind() method returns an object of the Understand::Kind class. The following methods provided by that class allow you to obtain information about a kind:

Methods that accept a $kindstring or $entkindstring argument allow you to filter the results using an entity filter. The following methods accept such arguments:

Methods that accept a $refkindstring argument allow you to filter the results using a reference filter. The following methods accept such a argument:

The following methods allow you to test kindname filters:


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