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Metadata Status services

Update Status on a metadata record (xml.metadata.status)

The xml.metadata.status service updates the status on a metadata record using the status and changeMessage provided as parameters.

Note

The previously assigned status will be removed. If versioning for the metadata record is on, then the previously assigned status will be available in the version history.

Requires authentication: Yes

Request

Parameters:

  • id or uuid: Identifier of metadata to update

  • status: One of the status identifiers take from the database table statusvalues. Status identifiers can be retrieved using the xml.info service. The core status identifiers are:

    • 0: unknown
    • 1: draft
    • 2: approved
    • 3: retired
    • 4: submitted
    • 5: rejected

  • changeMessage: description of why the status has changed.

Request example:

POST:

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

Mime-type:
application/xml

Post request:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<request>
  <id>6</id>
  <status>5</status>
  <changeMessage>Completely unacceptable: consistency rules ignored<changeMessage/>
</request>

GET:

Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/xml.metadata.status?id=6&status=5&changeMessage=Do%20it%20all%20again%20nitwit

Note

URL encoding of changeMessage.

Response

If the request executes successfully then HTTP status code 200 is returned along with an XML document which contains the identifier of the metadata whose status has been updated.

Example:

<response>
  <id>6</id>
</response>

If an error occurred then HTTP status code 500 is returned along with an XML document which contains details of what went wrong. An example of such an error response is:

<error id="metadata-not-found">
  <message>Metadata not found</message>
  <class>MetadataNotFoundEx</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 401 HTTP code
  • Metadata not found (error id: metadata-not-found) if a metadata record with the identifier provided does not exist
  • Only the owner of the metadata can set the status. User is not the owner of the metadata, if the user does not have ownership rights over the metadata record.

Batch update status (xml.metadata.batch.update.status)

The xml.metadata.batch.update.status service updates the status on a selected set of metadata using the status and changeMessage sent as parameters.

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 and all status values previously assigned will be deleted. If metadata versioning is on then status changes will be recorded in the version history.

Requires authentication: Yes

Request

Parameters:

  • status: One of the status identifiers take from the database table statusvalues. Status identifiers can be retrieved using the xml.info service. The core status identifiers are:

    • 0: unknown
    • 1: draft
    • 2: approved
    • 3: retired
    • 4: submitted
    • 5: rejected

  • changeMessage: description of why the status has changed.

Example request:

POST:

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

Mime-type:
application/xml

Post request:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<request>
  <status>5</status>
  <changeMessage>Completely unacceptable: consistency rules ignored<changeMessage/>
</request>

GET:

Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/xml.metadata.batch.update.status?&status=5&changeMessage=Do%20it%20all%20again%20nitwit

Note

URL encoding of changeMessage.

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>
  <noChange>0</noChange>
</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)
  • noChange - number of metadata records whose ownership was unchanged by the operation.

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

Get status of a metadata record (xml.metadata.status.get)

This service gets the status of a particular metadata record specified by id or uuid as a parameter.

Requires authentication: No.

Request

Parameters:

  • id or uuid: Identifier of metadata to obtain status of.

Example request:

POST:

Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/xml.metadata.status.get

Mime-type:
application/xml

Post request:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<request>
  <id>5</id>
</request>

GET:

Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/xml.metadata.status.get?&id=5

Response

If the request executed successfully a HTTP 200 status code is returned and the XML with status values for the metadata record (note: all changesin status are returned in the response) is returned. An example follows:

<response>
  <record>
   <statusid>5</statusid>
   <userid>4</userid>
   <changedate>2012-12-27T14:58:04</changedate>
   <changemessage>Do it all again</changemessage>
   <name>rejected</name>
  </record>
  <record>
   <statusid>4</statusid>
   <userid>6</userid>
   <changedate>2012-12-27T14:32:10</changedate>
   <changemessage>Ready for review</changemessage>
   <name>submitted</name>
  </record>
 </response>

If the request did not execute successfully then HTTP 500 status code error is returned along with an XML document which includes details of the exception/what went wrong. An example of such a request is::

<error id="metadata-not-found">
  <message>Metadata not found</message>
  <class>MetadataNotFoundEx</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
  • Metadata not found (error id: metadata-not-found), when the metadata record requested is not found. Returns 500 HTTP code

Defining status actions

The behaviour of GeoNetwork when a status changes can be defined by the programmer. See Java Metadata Status Actions.