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Identifier Management
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.. index:: Identifiers
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Author
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  Matthew B. Jones
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Date
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  - 20100301 [MBJ] Initial draft of Identifier documentation
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Goal
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  Extend Metacat to support identifiers with arbitrary syntax
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Summary 
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  Metacat currently supports identifier strings called 'docids' that have
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  the syntax 'scope.object.revision', such as 'foo.34.1' (we will refer to
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  these as 'LocalIDs'). We now want Metacat to support identifiers that are 
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  arbitrary strings, but still enforce uniqueness and proper revision
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  handling (refer to these as GUIDs).  Metacat must be able to accept 
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  these strings as identifiers for all CRUD operations, and reference them 
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  in search results.
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Identifier Resolution
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Because Metacat uses LocalIDs throughout the code for references to objects,
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and that LocalID has a constrained structure that includes semantics about
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revisions in the identifier, it is difficult to wholesale replace it with
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less-constrained string identifiers without re-writing much of Metacat.
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Thus, our alternate strategy is to wrap the Metacat APIs with a
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identifier resolution layer that keeps track of the unconstrained GUIDs and
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maps them to constrained local identifiers which are used internally within
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Metacat. The basic identifer table model is shown in Figure 1, while the
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basic strategy for retrieving an object is shown in Figure 2, creating an 
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object is shown in Figure 3, updating an object in Figure 4, and deleting
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an object is shown in Figure 5.
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Identifier Table Structure
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.. figure:: images/identifiers.png
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   Figure 1. Table structure for identifiers.
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  This block defines the table structure diagram referenced above.
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  @startuml images/identifiers.png
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  identifiers "*" -- "1" xml_documents
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  identifiers : String identifier
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  identifiers : String docid
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  identifiers : Integer rev
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  xml_documents : String docid
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  xml_documents : String rev
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  note right of identifiers
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    "identifiers.(docid,rev) is a foreign key into xml_documents"
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  end note
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  @enduml
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Handling document read operations
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An overview of the process needed to read an object using a GUID.
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.. figure:: images/guid_read.png
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   Figure 2. Basic handling for string identifiers (GUIDs) as mapped to
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   docids (LocalIDs) to retrieve an object.
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  @startuml images/guid_read.png
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  !include plantuml.conf
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  actor User
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  participant "Client" as app_client << Application >>
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  participant "CRUD API" as c_crud << MetacatRestServlet >>
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  participant "Identifier Manager" as ident_man << IdentifierManager >>
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  participant "Handler" as handler << MetacatHandler >>
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  User -> app_client
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  app_client -> c_crud: get(token, GUID)
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  c_crud -> ident_man: getLocalID(GUID)
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  c_crud <-- ident_man: localID
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  c_crud -> handler: handleReadAction(localID)
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  c_crud <-- handler: object
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  c_crud --> app_client: object
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  @enduml
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Handling document create operations
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An overview of the process needed to create an object using a GUID.
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.. figure:: images/guid_insert.png
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   Figure 3. Basic handling for string identifiers (GUIDs) as mapped to
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   docids (LocalIDs) to create an object.
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  @startuml images/guid_insert.png
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  !include plantuml.conf
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  actor User
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  participant "Client" as app_client << Application >>
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  participant "CRUD API" as c_crud << MetacatRestServlet >>
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  participant "Identifier Manager" as ident_man << IdentifierManager >>
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  participant "Handler" as handler << MetacatHandler >>
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  User -> app_client
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  app_client -> c_crud: create(token, GUID, object, sysmeta)
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  c_crud -> ident_man: identifierExists(GUID)
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  alt identifierExists == "F"
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      c_crud -> ident_man: mapToLocalId(GUID)
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      c_crud <-- ident_man: localID
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      c_crud -> handler: handleInsertAction(localID)
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      c_crud <-- handler: success
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      note right of c_crud
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        "Also need to address how to handle the sysmeta information wrt insertion methods"
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      end note
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      app_client <-- c_crud: success
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  else identifierExists == "T"
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      app_client <-- c_crud: IdentifierNotUnique
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  @enduml
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Handling document update operations
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An overview of the process needed to update an object using a GUID.
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.. figure:: images/guid_update.png
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   Figure 4. Basic handling for string identifiers (GUIDs) as mapped to
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   docids (LocalIDs) to update an object.
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  @startuml images/guid_update.png
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  !include plantuml.conf
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  actor User
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  participant "Client" as app_client << Application >>
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  participant "CRUD API" as c_crud << MetacatRestServlet >>
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  participant "Identifier Manager" as ident_man << IdentifierManager >>
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  participant "Handler" as handler << MetacatHandler >>
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  User -> app_client
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  app_client -> c_crud: update(token, GUID, object, obsoletedGUID, sysmeta)
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  c_crud -> ident_man: identifierExists(obsoletedGUID)
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      c_crud -> ident_man: identifierExists(GUID)
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      alt identifierExists == "F"
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          c_crud -> ident_man: mapToLocalId(GUID, obsoletedGUID)
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          c_crud <-- ident_man: localID
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          c_crud -> handler: handleUpdateAction(localID)
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          note right of c_crud
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            "Also need to address how to handle the sysmeta information wrt update methods"
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          end note
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          app_client <-- c_crud: success
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      else identifierExists == "T"
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          app_client <-- c_crud: IdentifierNotUnique
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      end
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  else identifierExists == "F"
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      app_client <-- c_crud: NotFound
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  @enduml
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Handling document delete operations
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An overview of the process needed to delete an object using a GUID.
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.. figure:: images/guid_delete.png
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   Figure 5. Basic handling for string identifiers (GUIDs) as mapped to
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   docids (LocalIDs) to delete an object.
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  @startuml images/guid_delete.png
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  !include plantuml.conf
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  actor User
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  participant "Client" as app_client << Application >>
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  participant "CRUD API" as c_crud << MetacatRestServlet >>
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  participant "Identifier Manager" as ident_man << IdentifierManager >>
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  participant "Handler" as handler << MetacatHandler >>
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  User -> app_client
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  app_client -> c_crud: delete(token, GUID)
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  c_crud -> ident_man: identifierExists(GUID)
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  alt identifierExists == "T"
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      c_crud -> ident_man: mapToLocalId(GUID)
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      c_crud <-- ident_man: localID
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      c_crud -> handler: handleDeleteAction(localID)
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      c_crud <-- handler: success
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      app_client <-- c_crud: success
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  else identifierExists == "F"
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      app_client <-- c_crud: NotFound
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  @enduml
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  This block defines the interaction diagram referenced above.
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  startuml images/01_interaction.png
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    !include plantuml.conf
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    actor User
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    participant "Client" as app_client << Application >>
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    User -> app_client
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    participant "CRUD API" as c_crud << Coordinating Node >>
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    activate c_crud
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    app_client -> c_crud: resolve(GUID, auth_token)
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    participant "Authorization API" as c_authorize << Coordinating Node >>
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    c_crud -> c_authorize: isAuth(auth_token, GUID)
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    participant "Verify API" as c_ver << Coordinating Node >>
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    c_authorize -> c_ver: isValidToken (token)
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    c_authorize <-- c_ver: T or F
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    c_crud <-- c_authorize: T or F
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    app_client <-- c_crud: handle_list
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    participant "CRUD API" as m_crud << Member Node >>
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    activate m_crud
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    app_client -> m_crud: get(auth_token, handle)
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    participant "Server Authentication API" as m_authenticate << Member Node >>
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    m_crud -> m_authenticate: isAuth(auth_token, GUID)
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    m_crud <-- m_authenticate: T or F
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    m_crud -> m_crud: log(get, UserID, GUID)
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    app_client <-- m_crud: object or unauth or doesNotExist
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    deactivate m_crud
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  enduml
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