Data Manipulation APIs

Data Manipulation APIs provide access to transformation facilities that satisfy system requirements for arbitrary transformation and homogenization of content and metadata.

This page outlines the design rationale for those APIs.

Overview

APIs

Name	Description	Type	Protocol	Framework
Data Transformation Service	Web service that offers data manipulation functionality in a gCube infrastructure.	WS	SOAP	gCore

Data Transformation Service

• Description: Web service that offers data manipulation functionality in a gCube infrastructure.
• Type: gCube Web Service
• Protocol: SOAP
• Framework: gCore
• Key Features:
  • employs a variety of pluggable converters
  • complex transformations are feasible
  • orchestration of data transformation plan production and execution
  • a variety of Data Sources and Data Sinks are available
  • transformations can be executed distributively
• Documentation