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/**
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* '$RCSfile$'
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* Copyright: 2000 Regents of the University of California and the
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* National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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*
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* '$Author: tao $'
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* '$Date: 2003-09-02 17:00:38 -0700 (Tue, 02 Sep 2003) $'
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* '$Revision: 1808 $'
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*
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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* (at your option) any later version.
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*
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* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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* GNU General Public License for more details.
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*
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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*/
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package edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.stringclient.impl;
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/**
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* This interface provides methods for initializing and logging in to a
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* Metacat server, and then querying, reading, transforming, inserting,
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* updating and deleting documents from that server.
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*/
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public interface MetacatString
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{
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/**
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* Method used to log in to a metacat server. Implementations will need
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* to cache a cookie value to make the session persistent. Each time a
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* call is made to one of the other methods (e.g., read), the cookie will
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* need to be passed back to the metacat server along with the request.
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*
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* @param username the username of the user, like an LDAP DN
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* @param password the password for that user for authentication
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*/
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public void login(String username, String password);
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/**
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* Method used to log out a metacat server. When Metacat server will end
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* the session when this call is invoken.
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*/
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public void logout();
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* Read an XML document from the metacat server session, accessed by docid,
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* @return a String for accessing the document
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public String read(String docid);
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* Query the metacat document store with the given metacat-compatible
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* query document, and return the result set as a String
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public String query(String xmlQuery);
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* Insert an XML document into the repository.
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