Metacat

05/23/2001

03:28 PM Revision 749 (metacat): changed the db sequence name used for the accession# uniqueid

to xml_documents_id_seq.
All db sequences now are named of form <table_name>_id_seq bojilova

03:26 PM Revision 748 (metacat): added new property for the dbadapter class as:

dbAdapter=edu.ucsb.nceas.dbadapter.DBOracle
the installation procedure should change it to the appropriate class bojilova

03:19 PM Revision 747 (metacat): - changed to use the DBAdapter uniform interface for all apperance of "sysdate"

and uniqueid generation from sequence
MetaCatUtil:
- reads from metacat.properties the dbadapter class implemented th... bojilova

03:06 PM Revision 746 (metacat): the abstract DBAdapter class and its Oracle implementation

for the new dbadapter package bojilova

05/22/2001

03:24 PM Revision 745 (metacat): Fixed bug in metacat where return doctypes were not being properly

back traced. Changed DBQuery.findDocuments() so that it no longer
takes a returndoc array, but instead retrieves the... Matt Jones

05/21/2001

03:42 PM Bug #190: modify resultset to return all package information

Added ability to process multiple "returndoc" elements in
a pathquery document. Now, any query hit will be back trace... Matt Jones

02:46 PM Bug #190: modify resultset to return all package information

Modifications that change the package handling behavior of metacat. Package
membership is now determined by an identi... Matt Jones

02:30 PM Revision 744 (metacat): Added ability to process multiple "returndoc" elements in

a pathquery document. Now, any query hit will be back traced to an
associated package if that package is listed in o... Matt Jones

01:51 PM Revision 743 (metacat): Modifications that change the package handling behavior of metacat. Package

membership is now determined by an identifier being used as either the subject
or object in a triple. One can not re... Matt Jones

05/16/2001

09:45 AM Revision 742 (metacat): fix in the return of the last revisionid on UPDATE instead of the previous one

bojilova

05/11/2001

11:42 AM Bug #233: authentication always succeeds with empty password

FIXED Jivka Bojilova

01:46 AM Bug #160: need resource restriction capability

Deferred indefinitely because SRB deployment is in question. Will reopen later
if we decide to deploy the SRB. Matt Jones

01:45 AM Bug #152: Port SRB1_1_8 changes to Linux x86

Deferred indefinitely because SRB deployment is in question. Will reopen later
if we decide to deploy the SRB. Matt Jones

01:44 AM Bug #137: need admin client for managing SRB systems

Deferred indefinitely because SRB deployment is in question. Will reopen later
if we decide to deploy the SRB. Matt Jones

05/10/2001

12:12 PM Bug #186: add web metadata entry form for Metacat

Rudolf -- could you check in your current metadata HTML form and the perl script
that processes its contents so Chris... Matt Jones

12:04 PM Bug #186: add web metadata entry form for Metacat

Added cjones to cc list because he has agreed to work onthis as well. Matt Jones

05/09/2001

04:44 PM Bug #233: authentication always succeeds with empty password

Fixed from Metacat
Ldap server seems to always allow access with empty password strings Jivka Bojilova

01:54 PM Revision 741 (metacat): this is sql script does the same as the sql script named

xmltables.sql except that this script is to be use to
create the database tables on a Postgresql backend rather
than ... harris

01:49 PM Revision 740 (metacat): fixed the problem with empy password authentication.

Ldap somehow allows DirContext to be created
when empty password is provided as in our case
instead of comlaining lik... bojilova

05/08/2001

05:57 PM Bug #233 (Resolved): authentication always succeeds with empty password

If logging into metacat, providing an empty string for a password always results
in successful authentication. This... Matt Jones

02:40 PM Revision 739 (metacat): as John were testing Metacat on postgres,

he discovered that Connection needs more precise check
whether it is open because of db timing outs.
So used to be:
... bojilova

11:47 AM Bug #199: changes in Access Control mechanism

. Jivka Bojilova

11:45 AM Bug #199: changes in Access Control mechanism

1. No changes are required for "public" access. Any LDAP auth server can hold
a "public" entry as a user or a group.... Jivka Bojilova

05/04/2001

03:26 PM Bug #170: merge get actions into one read action

FIXED Jivka Bojilova

03:10 PM Bug #33: problems with replicating of DTDs, because of PUBLIC IDs

There are problems for replicating of DTDs, because of PUBLIC IDs.
PUBLIC IDs probably should be unique (globally) b/... Jivka Bojilova

03:08 PM Bug #33: problems with replicating of DTDs, because of PUBLIC IDs

DONE
DTDs are stored on the server when registering new Doctypes Jivka Bojilova

03:05 PM Bug #197: revisionid should be generated on client, not metacat

FIXED
accession# as
sitecode.uniqueid.[revisionid] Jivka Bojilova

03:03 PM Bug #197: revisionid should be generated on client, not metacat

DONE Jivka Bojilova

03:04 PM Bug #196: Metacat READ function should set mime type

FIXED Jivka Bojilova

02:30 PM Revision 738 (metacat): fix to view abstract only when abstractpath parameter was specified

bojilova

02:25 PM Revision 737 (metacat): specified the correct param list about the "read" action changes

bojilova

11:12 AM Revision 736 (metacat): put exception handler messages when acc# is not in the correct format as:

<sitecode>.<uniqueid>.[<revisionid>] bojilova

09:16 AM Revision 735 (metacat): fix - added back generate(docid, action) method called from DataFileServer.java where rev is defaulted to 1

bojilova

05/03/2001

05:12 PM Revision 734 (metacat): - changes to expect revisionid to come from the client on INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE;

now the client should send accession# as:
sitecode.uniqueid.revisionid
INSERT checks if sitecode.uniqueid part does n... bojilova

05/02/2001

02:52 PM Revision 733 (metacat): Tomcat has got configurated mime type mappings, but some are

missing. Thus added support for them in MetaCatServlet as:
File type -> MIME type
-------------- ----------------
... bojilova

10:20 AM Bug #196: Metacat READ function should set mime type

DONE
put MIME type everywhere on return on "read" action. Set metadata returns to
"text/html" or "text/xml". Set zip... Jivka Bojilova

10:14 AM Bug #170: merge get actions into one read action

DONE
getAbstract and getDataDoc moved over under the "read" action Jivka Bojilova

05/01/2001

04:43 PM Revision 732 (metacat): chaged the hidden input box from "relation" to "docid"

bojilova

04:42 PM Revision 731 (metacat): - merged "getabstract" and "getdatadoc" actions to "read" action;

- put MIME types everywhere for the returned data;
- zip when more than one doc/files were requested or when specifie... bojilova

04/30/2001

02:20 PM Bug #225: finish SSDBM paper

Paper finished on 4/30/01. Chad Berkley