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* '$RCSfile$'
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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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*
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* '$Author: Serhan AKIN $'
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* '$Date: 2009-07-15 10:54:27 +0300 $'
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*
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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* (at your option) any later version.
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*
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* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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* GNU General Public License for more details.
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*
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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*/
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package edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.client.rest;
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import java.io.IOException;
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import java.io.Reader;
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import java.util.Vector;
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import edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.client.DocumentNotFoundException;
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import edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.client.InsufficientKarmaException;
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import edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.client.MetacatAuthException;
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import edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.client.MetacatException;
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import edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.client.MetacatInaccessibleException;
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/**
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* This interface provides methods for initializing and logging in to a
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* Metacat REST API, and then querying, reading, transforming, inserting,
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* updating and deleting documents from that server.
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*/
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public interface MetacatRest
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{
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/** HTTP Verb GET*/
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public static final String GET = "GET";
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/** HTTP Verb POST*/
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public static final String POST = "POST";
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/** HTTP Verb PUT*/
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public static final String PUT = "PUT";
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/** HTTP Verb DELETE*/
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public static final String DELETE = "DELETE";
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/*
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* API Resources
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*/
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/** API OBJECTS Resource which handles with document operations*/
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public static final String RESOURCE_OBJECTS = "object";
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/** API SESSION Resource which handles with user session operations*/
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public static final String RESOURCE_SESSION = "session";
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/** API IDENTIFIER Resource which controls object unique identifier operations*/
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public static final String RESOURCE_IDENTIFIER = "identifier";
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/*
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* API Functions used as URL parameters
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*/
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/** Function keyword*/
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public static final String FUNCTION_KEYWORD = "op";
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/** Function name for login function*/
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public static final String FUNCTION_NAME_LOGIN = "login";
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/** Function name for logout function*/
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public static final String FUNCTION_NAME_LOGOUT = "logout";
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/** Function name for isregistered function*/
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public static final String FUNCTION_NAME_ISREGISTERED = "isregistered";
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/** Function name for getalldocids function*/
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public static final String FUNCTION_NAME_GETALLDOCS = "getalldocids";
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/** Function name for getnextrevision function*/
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public static final String FUNCTION_NAME_GETNEXTREV = "getnextrevision";
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/** Function name for getnextobject function*/
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public static final String FUNCTION_NAME_GETNEXTOBJ = "getnextobject";
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/** Function name for insert function*/
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public static final String FUNCTION_NAME_INSERT = "insert";
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/** Function name for update function*/
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public static final String FUNCTION_NAME_UPDATE= "update";
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/**
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* Method used to log in to a metacat server through REST API
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*/
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public String login(String username, String password)
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MetacatException;
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*/
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MetacatInaccessibleException, DocumentNotFoundException, MetacatException;
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* Read XML document from server session, accessed by docid, and returned as a Reader.
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public Reader authenticatedQuery(Reader xmlQuery) throws MetacatInaccessibleException,IOException;
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}
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