Metacat

    /**

     * Update the system metadata for a given pid, setting it to be obsoleted

     * by the obsoletedByPid

     *  

     * @param pid

     * @return

     * @throws NotImplemented

     * @throws NotFound

     * @throws NotAuthorized

     * @throws ServiceFailure

     * @throws InvalidRequest

     * @throws InvalidToken

     * @throws InstantiationException

     * @throws IllegalAccessException

     * @throws VersionMismatch

     */

    public boolean setObsoletedBy(String pid) 

        throws NotImplemented, NotFound, NotAuthorized, ServiceFailure, 

        InvalidRequest, InvalidToken, InstantiationException, 

        IllegalAccessException, VersionMismatch {

        boolean result = false;

        long serialVersion = 0L;

        String serialVersionStr = null;

        Identifier identifier = new Identifier();

        identifier.setValue(pid);

        String obsoletedByPidString = null;

        Identifier obsoletedByPid = null;

        // Parse the params out of the multipart form data

        // Read the incoming data from its Mime Multipart encoding

        logMetacat.debug("Parsing rights holder parameters from the mime multipart entity");

        try {

            collectMultipartParams();

        } catch (FileUploadException e1) {

            String msg = "FileUploadException: Couldn't parse the mime multipart information: " +

            e1.getMessage();

            logMetacat.debug(msg);

            throw new ServiceFailure("4941", msg);

        } catch (IOException e1) {

            String msg = "IOException: Couldn't parse the mime multipart information: " +

            e1.getMessage();

            logMetacat.debug(msg);

            throw new ServiceFailure("4941", msg);

        } catch (Exception e1) {

            String msg = "Exception: Couldn't parse the mime multipart information: " +

            e1.getMessage();

            logMetacat.debug(msg);

            throw new ServiceFailure("4941", msg);

        }

        // get the obsoletedByPid

        try {

            obsoletedByPidString = multipartparams.get("obsoletedByPid").get(0);

            obsoletedByPid = new Identifier();

            obsoletedByPid.setValue(obsoletedByPidString);

        } catch (NullPointerException e) {

            String msg = "The 'obsoletedByPid' must be provided as a parameter and was not.";

            logMetacat.error(msg);

            throw new InvalidRequest("4883", msg);

        }

        // get the serialVersion

        try {

            serialVersionStr = multipartparams.get("serialVersion").get(0);

            serialVersion = new Long(serialVersionStr).longValue();

        } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {

            String msg = "The 'serialVersion' must be provided as a positive integer and was not.";

            logMetacat.error(msg);

            throw new InvalidRequest("4942", msg);

        } catch (NullPointerException e) {

            String msg = "The 'serialVersion' must be provided as a parameter and was not.";

            logMetacat.error(msg);

            throw new InvalidRequest("4942", msg);

        }

        result = CNodeService.getInstance(request).setObsoletedBy(session,

            identifier, obsoletedByPid, serialVersion);

        response.setStatus(200);

        response.setContentType("text/xml");

        return result;

    }