Metacat

Refactoring classes that throw generic Exception class to throw their more specific subclasses so that new exceptions are not hidden behind generic messages. Makes debugging easier.

try to read the local document before making the localid->guid mapping (in cases where we fail to read the data locally like if it is referenced in an EML file but does not exist on this Metacat instance)

Ensure we have the object and sysmeta params for MN.create(). We were getting a fatal SAX parsing error encapsulated in a ServiceFailure when a science metadata object param was null. Cut it off at the pass after parsing the MMP entity.

An example python script that uses the python client to loop through a list of
files, read them from disk, and insert them into metacat.

use larger ("text") db field for guid in the xml_access.accessfileid column

Use the Collections class from java.util.

Remove null field tests in the IdentifierManager class. Schema-level required fields are checked on serialization/deserialization using JibX during the REST resource handler classes. Other required fields are checked in MNodeService and CNodeService, higher in the stack.

For MNs that haven't set the archived flag to false on create(), set it here. Also, ensure that the CN sync code sets the authoritative and origin member node fields.

On MN.create(), set the archived flag to be false. This field isn't required in the schema, but is needed by the DataONE indexer once objects are sync'd.

-generate system meta for all docids, even those not originating on the server (replicas from the past)
-generate ORE docs and download remote data only for those documents that originated on this server being upgraded.
http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5522