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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: sgarg $'
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* '$Date: 2004-08-19 11:34:46 -0700 (Thu, 19 Aug 2004) $'
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* '$Revision: 2240 $'
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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.client;
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import java.io.Reader;
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import java.io.IOException;
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import java.io.File;
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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 Metacat
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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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* @return the response string from metacat in XML format
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* @throws MetacatAuthException when the username/password could
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* not be authenticated
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*/
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public String login(String username, String password)
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throws MetacatAuthException, MetacatInaccessibleException;
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/**
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* Method used to log out a metacat server. The Metacat server will end
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* the session when this call is invoked.
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*
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* @return the response string from metacat in XML format
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* @throws MetacatInaccessibleException when the metacat server can not be
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* reached or does not respond
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*/
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public String logout() throws MetacatInaccessibleException,
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MetacatException;
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* Read an XML document from the metacat server session, accessed by docid,
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* and returned as a Reader.
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* @param docid the identifier of the document to be read
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* @return a Reader for accessing the document
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* @throws InsufficientKarmaException when the user has insufficent rights
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* for the operation
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public Reader read(String docid) throws InsufficientKarmaException,
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MetacatInaccessibleException, MetacatException;
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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 Reader.
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public Reader query(Reader xmlQuery) throws MetacatInaccessibleException,
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* Insert an XML document into the repository.
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public String insert(String docid, Reader xmlDocument, Reader schema)
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