Metadata Select services

These services are for creating and managing a set of selected metadata records. The selected set is normally used by the metadata.batch services eg. metadata.batch.update.privileges, metadata.batch.newowner, metadata.batch.update.status, metadata.batch.update.categories, metadata.batch.version, metadata.batch.processing and metadata.batch.delete.

Select metadata records (xml.metadata.select)

This service can be used to build and manage a selected set of metadata.

Request

Parameters:

• id: Identifier of metadata to select (can be more than one)
• selected: Selection state. Values: add, add-all, remove, remove-all

Select all metadata example:

Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/metadata.select

Mime-type:
application/xml

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

Select a metadata record example:

Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/metadata.select

Mime-type:
application/xml

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

Clear metadata selection example:

Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/metadata.select

Mime-type:
application/xml

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

Response

The XML response from this service always contains the number of metadata records selected after applying the select operation.

Example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<request>
  <Selected>10</Selected>
</request>