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* Authors: Jivka Bojilova
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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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* For Details: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/
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* Created: 2000 April 5
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* Version: 0.01
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* File Info: '$Id$'
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* October Meeting SDSC, 2000
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<td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">Metacat High Level API</p></td>
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<a href="./metacatout.html">Back</a> | <a href="./metacattour.html">Home</a> |
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<p>
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<b>Multiple client interface</b> <br>
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Since Metacat Servlet is a subclass of HttpServlet, this allows any client
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to communicate with Metacat by essentially passing a URL with embedded
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servlet parameters.
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Metacat Servlet provides an HTTP Interface and can handle GET and POST
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requests. HTTP requests are sent from the the Client application and contain
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a number of parameters. These parameters, in form of name/value pairs, provide
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input data for the Servlet and also provide the Servlet any extra information it
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needs to handle the request. </p>
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<P> <b>Extensions of HttpServlet</b> <br>
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Metacat Server adds the functionality for writing, quering, and reading of
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XML stored in the Metacat Database as well functions for validating and
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transforming XML documents. </p>
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<b>MetacatServlet Parameters</b>
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<td><b>Action</b></td>
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<td><b>Supplemental Parameters</b></td>
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<td><b>Description</b></td>
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<td>login</td>
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<li>username - the user's login name</li>
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<li>password - the user's password</li>
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<td>Log the user in.</td>
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<td>logout</td>
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<td>Log the current user out and destroy the associated session.</td>
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<td>query</td>
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<li>returndoctype - the doctype that you wish to use for your
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<a href="./packages.html">Package View</a></li>
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<li>qformat - the format that you wish to return the resultset in.
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Possible values are 'html' or 'xml'.</li>
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<li>querytitle - OPTIONAL - the title of the query</li>
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<li>doctype - OPTIONAL - if doctype is specified, the search is limited
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<li>returnfield - a custom field to be returned by any hit document.
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This is explained in more detail in <a href="./metacatquery.html">
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Queries and Results</a>.</li>
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<li>operator - the boolean operator to apply to the query - Possible
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values are: UNION or INTERSECT</li>
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<li>searchmode - the type of search to be performed. Possible values
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are: contains, starts-with, ends-with, equals, isnot-equal, greater-than,
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less-than, greater-than-equals, less-than-equals.</li>
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<li>anyfield - a freetext search variable. A value placed in this
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parameter will be searched for in any document in any node.</li>
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<td>Perform a free text query.</td>
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<td>squery</td>
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<li>query - the text of the pathquery document that is being sent to the
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server</li>
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<td>Perform a structured query.</td>
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<td>read</td>
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<li>docid - the docid of the document to read</li>
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<li>qformat - the format to return the document in. Possible values
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are: html, xml</li>
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<td>Get docid from the database and return it in qformat form.</td>
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<td>insert</td>
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<li>doctext - the text of the XML document to insert</li>
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<td>Insert an XML document into the database.</td>
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<td>update</td>
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<li>docid - the docid of the document to update</li>
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<li>docid - the docid of the data document to upload</li>
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<li>datafile - the data document to upload</li>
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<li>docid - the docid of the document to delete</li>
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<td>Delete the specified docid from the database.</td>
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<li>docid - the docid of the document to validate</li>
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<li>valtext - the DTD by which to validate this document</li>
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<td>Validate docid against its DTD.</td>
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<li>docid - the docid of the document to get the ACL for</li>
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<td>Get ACL for document with that docid</td>
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<td>getprincipals</td>
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<td>Get all users and groups in the current authentication schema</td>
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<td>getdoctypes</td>
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<td>Get all doctypes currently available in Metacat Catalog System.</td>
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<li>doctype - the doctype which DTD or XMLSchema file to read.</td>
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<td>Read DTD or XMLSchema file for the specified doctype.</td>
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<li>doctype - the doctype for which to get the data guide</li> <br>
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<td>Read a dataguide for doctype.</td>
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<li>username - the user's login name which last docid to get.</td>
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<td>export</td>
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<li>docid - the docid of the package you wish to export</li>
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<b><a href="./replication.html">MetacatReplication</a> Parameters</b>
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<li>server - The server to which this document is being sent</li>
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<li>docid - The docid of the document to send</li>
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<li>dbaction - DEFAULTS TO UPDATE - The action to perform on the
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<td>Force this server to get docid from the remote host.</td>
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<td>Sends the contents of the xml_catalog table encoded in XML.</td>
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<li>docid - the docid to get the lock for</li>
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<td>Return the local time on this server.</td>
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<li>subaction - The replication control to be performed. Possible
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<li>add - add a new server to the replication list</li>
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<li>delete - remove a server from the replication list</li>
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<li>list - list all of the servers currently in the server list</li>
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the replication daemon to check for updated documents. The value
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<td>Stop the Replication daemon.</td>
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