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Metadata Ownership services

These services allow retrieval and management of metadata ownership where the 'owner' of a metadata record is the user who created it. Only users with Administrator and UserAdmin profiles can execute these services.

Batch new owner (xml.metadata.batch.newowner)

The xml.metadata.batch.newowner service allows you to set the owner of a selected set of metadata records.

Note

This service requires a previous call to the xml.metadata.select service (see metadata.select) to select metadata records.

Note

Only those metadata records for which the user running the service has ownership rights on will be updated. If metadata versioning is on then ownership changes will be recorded in the version history.

Requires authentication: Yes

Request

Once the metadata records have been selected the xml.metadata.batch.newowner service can be invoked with the following parameters:

  • user: (mandatory) New owner user identifier
  • group: (mandatory) New owner group user identifier

Request example:

POST:

Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/xml.metadata.batch.newowner

Mime-type:
application/xml

Post request:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<request>
  <user>2</user>
  <group>2</group>
</request>

GET:

Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/xml.metadata.batch.newowner?user=1&group=1

Response

If the request executed successfully then HTTP 200 status code is returned and an XML document with a summary of how the metadata records in the selected set have been processed. An example of such a response is shown below:

<response>
  <done>5</done>
  <notOwner>0</notOwner>
  <notFound>0</notFound>
</response>

The response fields are:

  • done - number of metadata records successfully updated
  • notOwner - number of metadata records skipped because the user running this service did not have ownership rights
  • notFound - number of metadata records skipped because they were not found (may have been deleted)

If the request fails an HTTP 500 status code error is returned and the response is an XML document with the exception. An example of such a response is shown below:

<error id="service-not-allowed">
  <message>Service not allowed</message>
  <class>ServiceNotAllowedEx</class>
  .....
</error>

See Exception handling for more details.

Errors

  • Service not allowed (error id: service-not-allowed), when the user is not authenticated or their profile has no rights to execute the service. Returns 500 HTTP code

Transfer ownership (xml.ownership.transfer)

The xml.ownership.transfer service can be used to transfer ownership and privileges of metadata from one user to another. This service should be used with data retrieved from previous invocations to the services xml.ownership.editors <xml.ownership.editors> and xml.ownership.groups <xml.ownership.groups> as described below.

Requires authentication: Yes

Request

Parameters:

  • sourceUser: (mandatory) Identifier of the user whose metadata will be transferred to a new owner
  • sourceGroup: (mandatory) Identifier of one of the user groups of sourceUser
  • targetUser: (mandatory) Identifier of the user who will become the new owner of the metadata currently owned by sourceUser
  • targetGroup: (mandatory) Identifier of one of the user groups of the targetUser

Example: In the next example we are going to transfer the ownership and privileges of metadata owned of user John (id=2) in group RWS (id=5) to user Samantha(id=7) in group NLR (id=6)

Transfer ownership request example:

Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/xml.ownership.transfer

Mime-type:
application/xml

Post request:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<request>
  <sourceUser>2</sourceUser>
  <sourceGroup>5</sourceGroup>
  <targetUser>7</targetUser>
  <targetGroup>6</targetGroup>
</request>

Response

The response contains the following fields:

  • response: This is the container for the response
    • privileges: Number of privileges transferred from source group to target group
    • metadata: Number of metadata records transferred from source user to target user

Transfer ownership response example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
  <privileges>4</privileges>
  <metadata>2</metadata>
</response>

See Exception handling for more details.

Errors

  • Service not allowed (error id: service-not-allowed), when the user is not authenticated or his profile has no rights to execute the service. Returns 500 HTTP code
  • Missing parameter (error id: missing-parameter), when mandatory parameters are not provided. Returns 500 HTTP code
  • bad-parameter XXXX, when a mandatory parameter is empty or invalid. Returns 500 HTTP code

Retrieve metadata owners (xml.ownership.editors)

The xml.ownership.editors service can be used to retrieve the users with editor profile that own metadata records.

Requires authentication: Yes

Request

Parameters:

  • None

Retrieve metadata owners request example:

Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/xml.ownership.editors

Mime-type:
application/xml

Post request:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<request />

Response

Successful execution returns HTTP status code 200 and an XML document with the results. The elements of the response are as follows:

  • root: This is the container for the response
    • editor: Container for each editor user information
      • id: User identifier
      • username: User login
      • name: User name
      • surname: User surname
      • profile: User profile

Example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
  <editor>
    <id>1</id>
    <username>admin</username>
    <name>admin</name>
    <surname>admin</surname>
    <profile>Administrator</profile>
  </editor>
  <editor>
    <id>2</id>
    <username>samantha</username>
    <name>Samantha</name>
    <surname>Smith</surname>
    <profile>Editor</profile>
  </editor>
</root>

Unsuccessful execution returns HTTP 500 status code error and an XML document describing the exception that occurred. An example of such an error response is::

<error id="service-not-allowed">
  <message>Service not allowed</message>
  <class>ServiceNotAllowedEx</class>
  .....
</error>

See Exception handling for more details.

Errors

  • Service not allowed (error id: service-not-allowed), when the user is not authenticated or his profile has no rights to execute the service. Returns 500 HTTP code

Retrieve groups & users that can be used in metadata ownership transfer (xml.ownership.groups)

The xml.ownership.groups service retrieves:

  • all groups that have been assigned privileges over the metadata records owned by the specified user - these will be the source groups from which ownership can be transferred
  • all groups to which the user running the service belongs to. A list of the users assigned to the group who have the editor profile is provided with each group. These are the target groups and editors to which ownership can be transferred.

Typically the xml.ownership.editors service is used to extract the user ids of editors that are used as parameters to retrieve more detailed information about source groups and target groups & editors.

Request

Parameters:

  • id: (mandatory) User identifier of the user from whom metadata records will be transferred
  • The user id of the user running this service will be used to obtain a list of target groups and editors to which the metadata records belonging to user id can be transferred.

Retrieve ownership groups request example:

Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/xml.ownership.groups

Mime-type:
application/xml

Post request:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<request>
  <id>2</id>
</request>

Response

Successful execution returns HTTP status code 200 and an XML document with the results. The elements of the response are as follows:

  • root: This is the container for the response

  • response: This is the container for the response

  • group: A group which has privileges over the metadata records owned by the user with user id id (can be multiple group elements). These groups can be used as the source group list for the transfer ownership service.

    • id, name, description, email, referrer, label: Group information

  • targetGroup: A user group to which the user running this service has been assigned (can be multiple targetGroup elements). The groups can be used as the target group list and the editors from the groups can be target editors for the transfer ownership service.

    • id, name, description, email, referrer, label: Group information
    • editor: Users from the group that can edit metadata (can be multiple editor elements)
      • id,surname, name: Metadata user owner information

Response example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
  <group>
    <id>3</id>
    <name>bigmetadatausers</name>
    <description>Big Metadata User Groups</description>
    <email>bigmetadatagroup@mail.net</email>
    <referrer />
    <label>
      <en>Big Metadata Users</en>
    </label>
  </group>
  <targetGroup>
    <id>2</id>
    <name>sample</name>
    <description>Demo group</description>
    <email>group@mail.net</email>
    <referrer />
    <label>
      <en>Sample group</en>
    </label>
    <editor>
      <id>12</id>
      <surname />
      <name />
    </editor>
    <editor>
      <id>13</id>
      <surname />
      <name>Samantha</name>
    </editor>
  </targetGroup>
  <targetGroup>
    <id>6</id>
    <name>RWS</name>
    <description />
    <email />
    <referrer />
    <label>
      <en>RWS</en>
    </label>
    <editor>
      <id>7</id>
      <surname />
      <name>Samantha</name>
    </editor>
  </targetGroup>
  ...
</response>

Unsuccessful execution returns HTTP 500 status code error and an XML document describing the exception that occurred. An example of such an error response is::

<error id="service-not-allowed">
  <message>Service not allowed</message>
  <class>ServiceNotAllowedEx</class>
  .....
</error>

See Exception handling for more details.

Errors

  • Service not allowed (error id: service-not-allowed), when the user is not authenticated or his profile has no rights to execute the service. Returns 500 HTTP code