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      <td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">Metacat Client
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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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        } catch (Exception e) {
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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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    <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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        throws InsufficientKarmaException,
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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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                                                IOException;</code></li>
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    <li><code>public String <b>insert</b>(String docid, Reader xmlDocument, Reader schema)
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        throws InsufficientKarmaException, MetacatException, IOException,
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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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        throws InsufficientKarmaException, MetacatException, IOException,
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        MetacatInaccessibleException;</code></li>
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    <li><code>public String <b>upload</b>(String docid, File file)
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        throws InsufficientKarmaException, MetacatException, IOException,
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        MetacatInaccessibleException;</code></li>
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    <li><code>public String <b>upload</b>(String docid, String fileName,
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                         InputStream fileData, int size)
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        throws InsufficientKarmaException, MetacatException, IOException,
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        MetacatInaccessibleException;</code></li>
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    <li><code>public String <b>delete</b>(String docid)
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        throws InsufficientKarmaException, MetacatException,
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        MetacatInaccessibleException;</code></li>
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    <li><code>public void <b>setMetacatUrl</b>(String metacatUrl);</code></li>
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    <li><code>public String <b>getSessionId</b>();</code></li>
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    <li><code>public void <b>setSessionId</b>(String sessionId);</code></li>
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    <li><code>public int <b>getNewestDocRevision</b>(String docId) throws MetacatException;</code></li>
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    <li><code>public String <b>setAccess</b>(String docid, String principal, String permission, String permType, String permOrder );</code></li>
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