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Fedora 3.0 API

DOMS metadata objects will be stored in Fedora-commons 3.0.

The API is documented here, as far as it goes: http://www.fedora-commons.org/documentation/3.0/userdocs/index.html#webservices

The API to Fedora is directly exported as the primary API to DOMS. We have restricted a few methods, and have some conventions about certain other should be used.

The following methods are restricted

[:/Managment#PurgeDatastream: apiM.PurgeDatastream] and[:/Managment#PurgeObject: apiM.PurgeObject] are not allowed. Instead use [:Fedora_3.0_API/Managment#modifyDatastream: apiM.modifyDatastream] and [:Fedora_3.0_API/Managment#modifyObject: apiM.modifyObject] to change the state to "D" (deleted).
[:/Managment#setDatastreamVersionable: apiM.setDatastreamVersionable] is disallowed. The internal datastreams are always versioned.
Do not use getNextPID, instead use the method provided from DOMS

Objects that are marked as "published" (see FedoraTransactionsReplacement) cannot be changed. Any API calls that attempt to change them will fail. There will be made a service to atomically change the state of objects. TODO!!!

The structures below are used by Fedora, almost no matter which lanquage you use to interact with it. We use our own shorthand to specify the types. This schema should help you translate to your language of choise

shorthand	wsdl	fedora java client	rest
`String`	xsd:string	java.lang.String	xsd:string
`[]`	xsd:sequence	java array	?
`byte[]`	xsd:base64Binary	jave primitive byte[]	?
`long`	xsd:long	java primitive long	xsd:long
`boolean`	xsd:boolean	java primitive boolean	xsd:boolean

The "fedora-types:ArrayOfString" is defined thus

<complexType name="ArrayOfString">
   <sequence>
      <element name="item" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" type="xsd:string"/>
   </sequence>
</complexType>

The Fedora API is described in the the pages below.

[:/Access: The public Access API] - Everybody can use this, this is the primary way for external applications to query the repository.
[:/Managment: The protected Managment API] - Only authenticated administrators, such as users of the GUI, can use this.
[:/RIsearch: The Resource Index API] - The interface to the Fedora triple store.

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+The structures below are used by Fedora, almost no matter which lanquage you use to interact with it. We use our own shorthand to specify the types. This schema should help you translate to your language of choise

|| shorthand || wsdl || fedora java client || rest ||
|| {{{String}}} || xsd:string || java.lang.String || xsd:string ||
|| {{{[]}}} || xsd:sequence || java array || ? ||
|| {{{byte[]}}} || xsd:base64Binary || jave primitive byte[] || ? ||
|| {{{long}}} || xsd:long || java primitive long || xsd:long ||
|| {{{boolean}}} || xsd:boolean || java primitive boolean || xsd:boolean ||

The "fedora-types:!ArrayOfString" is defined thus
{{{
<complexType name="ArrayOfString">
   <sequence>
      <element name="item" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" type="xsd:string"/>
   </sequence>
</complexType>
}}}
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- * [:/DataStructures: The complex data types used in the APIs] - A requisite for understanding the two documents above.