Metacat

add getaccesscontrol and setaccess api calls

return InputStream instead of Reader in the MetacatClient read() and readInlineData() methods. Can now handle binary data
http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4432

Improved the javadoc documentation for the upload() methods to clarify what upload() does and contrast it to insert() and update().

Add new query method which can specify qformat.

added a method to query metacat to see if a particular docid is registered or not

added functionality to get a list of ids used in the system

updated the client so it throws a DocumentNotFoundException if you attempt to read a docuemnt that doesn't exist

Added new function getLastDocid to the metacat client so that it is
accessible to clients that need it.

Added support in the metacat client for the new function added to MetaCatServlet

Add a new method to get newest version for a given document.

Thanks Jing, Fixed those code comments.

Adde a function to the metacat client to set access on an xml document in a
metacat repository.

Added new upload function which takes InputStream as input.

Added method to metacat client for reading inline data - readInlineData()

Added upload functionality to metacat client for upload online data

New versions of the Metacat client API that allow access to the sessionId
so that a session can be reused over several different instances.

Modified metacat to now provide the session identifier in the response
xml message when a login is called. This has not been fully tested.
I removed the HttpMessage class from metacat in favor of using the version
of that class that is found in the utilities module. This may cause some...

Add a logout method.

Implemented the update and delete methods in the interface, along with tests.

Implemented the "insert()" method and wrote a test to test it. The new test
depends on the property "newdocid" be set to something unique in the build.xml
file so that the insert will work properly. Probably need to fix this to be
some kind of autoincrement counter or random number so that it can be run...

Add metacatinaccessible exception for query.

Implemented the 'read' API call. Some more to go...

Added a new subpackage (edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.client) which is a client
access library for the metacat. There is an interface (Metacat.java) that
provides simple access methods for the main metacat functions. This is to
support clients like Morpho and others that want to programatically access...