Activity
From 08/16/2000 to 09/14/2000
09/14/2000
09/13/2000
- 03:03 PM Revision 451 (metacat): fix bug in toXML() about getting output of XML document like:
- <paragraph</paragraph>>
- 01:59 PM Revision 450 (metacat): added parentnodeid to xml_index table
- 01:57 PM Revision 449 (metacat): added parentnodeid to xml_index
- 01:09 PM Revision 447 (metacat): fix for "Document not found" err message on "getdocument" action
- 01:07 PM Revision 446 (metacat): fix for "public" authentication
09/12/2000
- 01:38 PM Revision 445 (metacat): xml_documents.public_access modified to be
- NUMBER(1) DEFAULT 1
ie all documents to have public access by default - 12:42 PM Revision 444 (metacat): removed print statments
- 12:28 PM Revision 443 (metacat): fixed xml tag error in squer
- 11:24 AM Revision 442 (metacat): fixed bug in handleSQuery that returned the <?xml?> tag in the <query> tag of a resultset.
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Reviewed by: - 10:37 AM Revision 441 (metacat): added check from "read" permission on "query" and "squery" actions
- for connected user or for "public" connection
09/11/2000
- 01:36 PM Revision 440 (metacat): 3 indexes added on:
- xml_nodes (rootnodeid)
xml_nodes (parentnodeid)
xml_documents (docid, doctype) - 08:07 AM Bug #99: add getDocumentAction to marineServlet
- This action was added. A style sheet for resource documents was also written.
- 08:05 AM Bug #100: add viewabstract action to metacatServlet
- This functionality now works. It uses a CGI parameter called abstractpath to
identify the xml path to the abstract. - 08:04 AM Bug #109: query speed slows as database grows
- Changed the queries to reduce the number of subqueries which increased the speed
of the query signifigantly.
09/06/2000
09/05/2000
- 02:01 PM Revision 438 (metacat): added documentation and cleaned up the markup.
- 01:51 PM Revision 437 (metacat): added support for getabstract action
- 01:50 PM Revision 436 (metacat): Added a method called getNodeContent which retrieves the content of a node in a document. If there are more than one nodes with the same name returned, it returns an array with all of the data.
- 01:49 PM Revision 435 (metacat): Added support for viewabstract
- 08:46 AM Revision 434 (metacat): added resource.xsl to the catalog
- 08:45 AM Revision 433 (metacat): no message
- 08:43 AM Revision 432 (metacat): style sheet for resource documents
09/01/2000
- 05:40 PM Bug #109: query speed slows as database grows
- Reassigned to berkley.
- 05:37 PM Revision 431 (metacat): Modified MetaCatServlet to use the new DocumentImpl.toXml() method for
- efficiency of reading documents. See bugzilla bug #111 for an explanation.
- 05:24 PM Revision 430 (metacat): Updated the test.xml file to use more XML features for testing insert,
- update, and read functions of DocumentImpl. Now the document contains
comments and processing instructions. - 05:16 PM Bug #111: reading large documents from metacat is slow
- Fixed document reading bug (bugzilla bug #111) so that reading documents is
no longer a power function of the number ... - 05:14 PM Revision 429 (metacat): Fixed document reading bug (bugzilla bug #111) so that reading documents
- is no longer a power function of the number of nodes in the document
(which used to be the case). Now, reading a doc... - 01:47 PM Revision 428 (metacat): change the 2 executions in archiveDocRevision()
- with 1 statement:
"insert into xml_revisions
select ... from xml_documents where docid = ..." - 12:04 PM Revision 427 (metacat): small changes on hasWritePermission()
08/31/2000
- 05:08 PM Revision 426 (metacat): get rid of the FK in xml_acess table that points to xm_documents.docid
- since xml_access.docid(s) point to current and revised documents
(ie xml_documents.docid and xml_revisions.docid) - 05:01 PM Revision 425 (metacat): storing user_owner and user_updated where needed
- new function in DocumentImpl checking for "write" perm on UPDATE or DELETE
added delete from xml_index of the old ver... - 02:43 PM Revision 424 (metacat): this file is no longer used.
- 02:24 PM Bug #55: change order of fields
- The order was changed
- 02:23 PM Bug #54: title and altitle fields are too small
- Changed the size of the fields to 30 characters.
- 02:23 PM Bug #53: Interface does not look good in 800x600
- Changed the interface to work better with lower resolutions. Fonts were made
smaller and buttons and text boxes were... - 02:20 PM Revision 423 (metacat): changed xslf for new returnfield scheme. the returnfields are now returned as <param name="<returnfield>"> tags.
- hThe sql for the returnfield query was redone to fix a previous problem with slow queries
- 02:18 PM Revision 422 (metacat): changed xslf for new resultfield scheme
- 01:04 PM Bug #111 (Resolved): reading large documents from metacat is slow
- Reading documents from metacat seems to scale with document size, and gets to be
extremely slow for even medium size... - 12:58 PM Bug #110 (Resolved): foreign keys to xml_catalog
- The current uses of public identifiers in the xml_documents and xml_revisions
tables do not explicity reference xml_...
08/30/2000
- 11:36 AM Bug #109 (Resolved): query speed slows as database grows
- As the database grows in size, the speed at which a query result is returned
becomes greater. The database size to ... - 11:19 AM Revision 421 (metacat): cleared static methods in AccessionNumber classes for fixing bug found
- when multiple requests to the servlet at a time.
08/29/2000
- 01:58 PM Revision 420 (metacat): changed paths in returnfield parameters
- 11:01 AM Revision 419 (metacat): added alt tags
- 11:01 AM Revision 418 (metacat): added alt tag
- 11:00 AM Revision 417 (metacat): new graphics and their adobe illustrator vector files
- 10:58 AM Revision 416 (metacat): changed colors and layout
08/28/2000
- 01:28 PM Revision 415 (metacat): Minor update to remove unneeded constructor in DocumentImpl class.
- 11:38 AM Revision 414 (metacat): new table xml_access and new attrs to xml_documents for ACL
08/25/2000
- 04:18 PM Revision 413 (metacat): for getDoctypes() added
- WHERE entry_type='DTD' condition in the select statement
- 01:56 PM Revision 412 (metacat): fixed typ-o
- 01:49 PM Revision 411 (metacat): Changes with Srb authentication: including quering of Srb/MCAT during the Srb connection for:
- - groupname of connected user
- list of groups and users in MCAT for ACL function for MetaCat - 01:17 PM Revision 410 (metacat): update of build.xml based on Matt's recommendations
- 11:59 AM Revision 409 (metacat): added an @image-path@ property to get around the messed up images when loading images from tomcat. To add your own image directory,
- create a directory under /opt/httpd/html/img/ and add the path to the image-path property in build.xml. Then all img...
08/24/2000
- 06:28 PM Revision 408 (metacat): Continued code redesign for the DocumentImpl class. Now the "delete" and
- "write" methods are static, so a DocumentImpl objject need not be created
in order to initiate a INSERT, UPDATE, or D... - 04:47 PM Revision 407 (metacat): Folded the functionality from DBWriter into DocumentImpl, continuing the
- work started earlir to create a more DOM-like model for the classes, in
which a single DocumentImpl class handles bot... - 10:27 AM Bug #101 (Resolved): generate data set usage metadata/ provide access log
- Tracking data set usage is an important part of running a metadata and data
archive. We need a new feature in the m... - 08:57 AM Revision 406 (metacat): removed extraneous dash (-) from output loop that was entered unintentionallyi
08/23/2000
- 04:08 PM Bug #59: create a more general specification for queries
- First of all, I changed pathquery.dtd to allow for {0..N} <returnfield>
tags. The content of each field should be ei... - 03:55 PM Revision 405 (metacat): changed the field names to be case-sensitive in the returnfields
- 03:54 PM Revision 404 (metacat): changed the field names to be case-sensitive
- 03:22 PM Bug #100 (Resolved): add viewabstract action to metacatServlet
- an action to view the abstract of a metadata file needs to be added to
metacatServlet. - 03:21 PM Bug #99 (Resolved): add getDocumentAction to marineServlet
- the action to look at a metadata file in html form should be added to
marineServlet. - 03:21 PM Bug #98 (Resolved): add download action to marineservlet
- An action to download a dataset from the DB needs to be added to marineServlet
- 03:18 PM Bug #97 (Resolved): combine printExtendedSQL and printSQL methods into one
- The printExtendedSQL and printSQL methods of QuerySpecification can be combined
into one method that works like prin... - 03:15 PM Bug #96 (Resolved): Fix browse function in MARINE servlet
- The browse function in marineServlet needs to be implemented in a way that
allows the browsing by different fields. ... - 02:33 PM Bug #28: need doctype backtracing/linking feature as part of doctype filter
- reassigned to berkley
- 10:43 AM Bug #28: need doctype backtracing/linking feature as part of doctype filter
- This feature depends on us resolving the linking feature described in bug #31
that allows us to specify relationships... - 02:28 PM Bug #31: need dataset id reference from metadata
- reassigned to berkley
- 10:33 AM Revision 403 (metacat): added the returnfield element to be used for dynamically choosing which fields to return from xml_nodes.
- 10:29 AM Revision 402 (metacat): added support for the returnfield parameter
- -QuerySpecification now sets a flag (containsExtendedSQL) when there are returnfield items in the pathquery document....
- 10:26 AM Bug #95 (Resolved): support for Namespaces in XML documents
- We need to support storage, query, and retrieval of XML documents with
Namespaces (see http://www.w3.org). At a min... - 10:23 AM Bug #94 (Resolved): add DOM interface support to metacat
- The current metacat database uses our proprietary API for accessing XML
documents. It uses a memory-resident model,... - 10:22 AM Revision 401 (metacat): added support for the returnfield parameter
- -added the dynamic parameters to the returned hash table of documents
- 10:20 AM Revision 400 (metacat): added support for the returnfield parameter
- 10:19 AM Revision 399 (metacat): marine.properties is no longer needed because the marine servlet uses all of the metacat properties.
- 10:17 AM Revision 398 (metacat): a way to access the marine servlet without using javascript
- 10:16 AM Revision 397 (metacat): updated the URL given the new <returnfield> paramet
08/22/2000
- 11:56 PM Revision 396 (metacat): Folded the functionality from DBSAXDocument into the DocumentImpl class.
- Now DocumentImpl handles both the reads and the writes to the database.
Eventually, it will implment the full DOM Doc... - 10:37 PM Revision 395 (metacat): Updated the readxml shell script to use the new DocumentImpl class instead
- of the old DBReader class.
- 10:34 PM Revision 394 (metacat): Removed DBReader.java because the functionality of that class has been
- replaced by the more efficient DocumentImpl class.
- 10:32 PM Revision 393 (metacat): Created new class "DocumentImpl" which represents an XML Document. This
- document will eventually implment the DOM Document interface. For now,
it implments all of the functionality that wa... - 02:36 PM Bug #59: create a more general specification for queries
- This fix is in progress:
I have added the capability to have <returnfield> tags in a pathquery document
which tell qu... - 02:34 PM Bug #63: methods in MetaCatServlet should be private not protected
- Extraneous methods were changed, the protected, overridable methods are:
decodeMouseAction
handleSQuery
handleQuery
t... - 10:24 AM Bug #31: need dataset id reference from metadata
- clarified action needed in subject, making it clear that we need the dataset id
reference in the metadata files in or...
08/21/2000
- 04:30 PM Bug #93: allow dynamic addition of actions
- reassigned to berkley.
- 11:59 AM Bug #93 (Resolved): allow dynamic addition of actions
- Instead of hard coding in each action into metacat, actions could be loaded
dynamically by defining a class which co... - 04:29 PM Bug #63: methods in MetaCatServlet should be private not protected
- reassigned to berkley (I think he already handled this bug.)
- 03:41 PM Revision 392 (metacat): Added script to register document types in the xml_catalog table for our
- common public ID's.
- 03:38 PM Revision 391 (metacat): Added install feature for copying dtd's to the servlet directory so that
- they are accessible to the metacatservlet.
- 03:19 PM Revision 390 (metacat): Added new utility query to return all of the xml_nodes info for a given
- document id in metacat.
- 02:55 PM Revision 389 (metacat): Updated documentation for NodeComparator.java.
- 02:52 PM Revision 388 (metacat): Modified the DBReader and ElementNode classes to more efficiently read
- documents from the database. In the old implementation, a db connection
was opened for each and every node in a docu... - 08:30 AM Bug #61: new resultset dtd spec
- In metacatservlet, the method that creates the resultset xml is now overwritable
allowing client modification of the ... - 08:29 AM Bug #60: use querySpecification
- All queries are now created in querySpecification.
- 08:28 AM Bug #56: code shifts and removals
- All of the tasks were completed.
08/20/2000
- 10:49 PM Bug #92 (Resolved): need access control tracking for metadata documents
- Need to create a mechanism for tracking access control information for metadata
documents. This might be doen by cr... - 08:58 PM Bug #46: metacat insert fails on some documents
- Dan verified that this bug still exists. Reassigned to bojilova.
08/18/2000
- 03:48 PM Revision 387 (metacat): redirector to access the marine servlet
- 03:45 PM Revision 386 (metacat): modified the xsl to work with the new servlet architecture.o
- 03:44 PM Revision 385 (metacat): marineServlet now overrides the transformQuery() function to allow it to put the values back into the text boxes of the xsl stylesheet rendered form.
- 03:41 PM Revision 384 (metacat): -fixed the bug where a pathquery document was not valid inside of the <query> tags in a resultset document.
- -provided override support for a new function called transformQuery() which allows specific applications to
custom... - 11:05 AM Revision 383 (metacat): Fixed small bug in transforming the document to HTML. If there was
- no stylesheet for a given doctype, and so the transformation couldn't
occur, the XML doc was returned, but the conten... - 10:56 AM Revision 382 (metacat): removed extraneous protected tags and replaced them with private tags
- 10:38 AM Revision 380 (metacat): Modified behavior of handleSQuery() to now send the resultset document
- back to the client application -- this was a bug introduced by recent
changes to the servlet. Also, generally cleaned... - 10:26 AM Bug #63 (Resolved): methods in MetaCatServlet should be private not protected
- Many of the helper methods in MetaCatServlet have been changed to "protected"
from their original "private" state. M... - 09:31 AM Revision 379 (metacat): decrease the number of "initialConnections" to 5, "increaseConnections" stay 5, decrease the "maximumConnections" to 10
08/17/2000
- 05:31 PM Revision 378 (metacat): Changed release to version to alpha 8 (1.0a8) and tagged metacat in
- CVS as METACAT_ALPHA_8
- 05:29 PM Revision 377 (metacat): Updated default html forms for metacat queries to use the "anyfield"
- keyword for constructing a default query. This should now work with
the new handleQuery method of MetaCatServlet.
Bu... - 03:21 PM Revision 376 (metacat): changed to work with the new MetaCatServlet model. marineServlet now only overwrites one method in MetaCatServlet.
- 03:20 PM Revision 375 (metacat): changed the prototype of overwritable functions to "protected" instead of "private".
- 01:35 PM Bug #52: Change link to project abstract
- It was changed
- 11:06 AM Revision 374 (metacat): change the resultset format for DataGuide
- 09:25 AM Bug #58: add eml-resource to the catalog
- resource was added to the catalog and to xml_catalog in the database.
- 09:04 AM Revision 373 (metacat): Changed the flow of query and SQuery. SQuery now only handles a preformatted pathquery document as input (in the "query" parameter).
- HandleQuery now handles all structured queries derived by CGI parameters.
- 09:02 AM Revision 372 (metacat): Made changes to createSQuery to allow for multiple parameters of the same name. Also changed the param list to include only "Hashtable params" without a "String doctype" since the doctype is already contained in the params.
08/16/2000
- 01:08 PM Revision 371 (metacat): fixed bug with handleSQuery() that kept DMan from access the squery functionality
- 11:48 AM Revision 370 (metacat): - created transformResultset() which transforms an xml resultset document and displays it to the client useing DBTransform
- - renamed transformDocument() to createResultDocument() and modified its functionality to only return a restultset xm...
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