Data Access and Storage APIs

Data Access and Storage APIs provide access to a wide range of system processes, including indexing, transfer, transformation and presentation. They make up a main driver for clients that interface the resources managed by the system or accessible through facilities available within the system.

A large number of APIs are dedicated to meet data access requirements including APIs of services, service plugins, client-side libraries, server-side libraries and front-end interfaces.

This document outlines the design rational and the key features for those APIs.

Overview

Name	Description	Type	Protocol	Framework
Tree Manager	Tree-based read-write access to arbitrary sources of structured data	WS	SOAP	gCore
Tree Manager Client	Client front-end to Tree Manager endpoints	Java	Local	CL
Tree Manager Plugin	Development framework for Tree Manager plugins	Java	Local	none
Trees	Tree and tree pattern model implementation	Java	Local	none
gDoc	gDoc model implementation	Java	Local	none
gDoc Client	gDoc-oriented front-end to Tree Manager endpoints	Java	Local	CL
View Manager	View management for data sources accessible via Tree Manager endpoints	WS	SOAP	gCore
View Manager Client	Client front-end to View Manager endpoints	Java	Java	CL
Storage Manager	TODO	Java	Java	CL
Species Products Discovery	TODO	WS	SOAP	gCore
SPD Plugin	TODO	Java	Local	CL
SPD Client	TODO	Java	Local	CL

Tree Manager API

• Description: Tree-based access to arbitrary sources to structured data.
• Type: gCube Web Service
• Protocol: SOAP
• Framework: gCore
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/The_Tree_Manager

Tree Manager Client API

• Description: Java APIs for accessing the tree-manager-service from within client runtimes.
• Type: Java
• Protocol: Local
• Framework: CL
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/The_Tree_Manager_Library

Tree Manager Plugin API

• Description: Java APIs for source-specific plugins of the tree-manager-service.
• Type: Java
• Protocol: Local
• Framework: N/A
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/The_Tree_Manager_Framework

Trees API

• Description: Java API for creation, inspection, filtering, and serialisation of tree structures.
• Type: Java
• Protocol: Local
• Framework: N/A
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc:

gDoc API

• Description: Java API for gDoc creation, inspection, and tree serialization of gDoc document structures.
• Type: Java
• Protocol: Local
• Framework: N/A
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/GCube_Document_Model

gDoc Client API

• Description: Java API for gDoc-based access to the tree-manager service.
• Type: Java
• Protocol: Local
• Framework: N/A
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/GCube_Document_Model

View Manager API

• Description: SOAP-accessible APIs for the management of views over data sources accessible via the tree-manager-service.
• Type: gCube Web Service
• Protocol: SOAP
• Framework: gCore
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/View_Manager

View Manager Client API

• Description: Java APIs for accessing the view-manager-service from within client runtimes.
• Type: Java
• Protocol: Local
• Framework: CL
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc:

Storage Manager API

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• Wiki Doc: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/Storage_Management_NEW

SPD API

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SPD Plugin API

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SPD Client API

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