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* Authors: Jivka Bojilova
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* National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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* Created: 2000 April 5
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* File Info: '$Id: clientapi.html 2310 2004-09-21 09:01:22Z jones $'
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<TITLE>Metacat</TITLE>
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<td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">Metacat Client
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Application Programming Interface</p></td>
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<a href="./metacatdom.html">Back</a> | <a href="./metacattour.html">Home</a> |
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<p>Metacat provides a client programming interface for communicating with
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the server. The client API is available in Java and Perl, but the
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Java interface will be described here. This interface allows a client
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application to easily authenticate users and perform basic metacat
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operations such as reading metadata and data files, inserting, updating,
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and deleting files, and searching for packages based on metadata matches.
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<p>To use the client, developers must include the 'metacat-client.jar',
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'utilities.jar', and 'httpclient.jar' in their classpath. Then, the API
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methods can be used. For example, a typical session to read a document
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from the database might look like this:<br>
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String metacatUrl = "http://foo.com/context/metacat";
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String username = "uid=jones,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org";
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String password = "neverHarcodeAPasswordInCode";
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try {
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Metacat m = MetacatFactory.createMetacatConnection(metacatUrl);
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m.login(username, password);
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Reader r = m.read("testdocument.1.1");
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// Do whatever you want with Reader r
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} catch (MetacatAuthException mae) {
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handleError("Authorization failed:\n" + mae.getMessage());
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} catch (MetacatInaccessibleException mie) {
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handleError("Metacat Inaccessible:\n" + mie.getMessage());
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handleError("General exception:\n" + e.getMessage());
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<p>The Client API is defined by the interface
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<code>edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.client.Metacat</code>, and all operations
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are fully defined inthe javadoc documentation. Briefly, the API
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provides the following operations:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><code>public String <b>login</b>(String username, String password)
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throws MetacatAuthException, MetacatInaccessibleException;</code></li>
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<li><code>public String <b>logout</b>() throws MetacatInaccessibleException,
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MetacatException;</code></li>
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<li><code>public Reader <b>read</b>(String docid) throws InsufficientKarmaException,
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MetacatInaccessibleException, MetacatException;</code></li>
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<li><code>public Reader <b>readInlineData</b>(String inlinedataid)
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MetacatInaccessibleException, MetacatException;</code></li>
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<li><code>public Reader <b>query</b>(Reader xmlQuery) throws MetacatInaccessibleException,
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<li><code>public String <b>insert</b>(String docid, Reader xmlDocument, Reader schema)
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MetacatInaccessibleException;</code></li>
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<li><code>public String <b>update</b>(String docid, Reader xmlDocument, Reader schema)
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<li><code>public String <b>delete</b>(String docid)
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<li><code>public void <b>setMetacatUrl</b>(String metacatUrl);</code></li>
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