Metacat

            // request

            // to a particular action handler

            if (action.equals("query")) {

                handleQuery(out, params, response, username, groupnames,

                        sess_id);

                out.close();

            } else if (action.equals("squery")) {

                if (params.containsKey("query")) {

                    handleSQuery(out, params, response, username, groupnames,

                            sess_id);

            } else if ( action.trim().equals("spatial_query")) {

                logMetacat.debug("******************* SPATIAL QUERY ********************");

                handleSpatialQuery(out, params, response, username, groupnames, sess_id);

                out.close();

            } else {

                // this is metadata doc

                if (qformat.equals("xml") || qformat.equals("")) {

                    // if equals "", that means no qformat is specified. hence

                    // by default the document should be returned in xml format

                    response.setContentType("text/xml"); //MIME type

                    response.setHeader("Content-Disposition",

                            "attachment; filename=" + docid + ".xml");

                    doc.toXml(out, user, groups, withInlineData);

                } else {

                    //*** This is a metadata doc, to be returned in a skin/custom format.

                    }

                    response.setContentType("text/html"); //MIME type

                    // Look up the document type

                    String doctype = doc.getDoctype();