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GCube Data Catalogue: support for GRSF

In this page are reported the relevant information about the GRSF Data Catalogue, which is available here. This page is somehow an extension of the main gCube Data Catalogue guide, you are suggested to read before continue.

The GRFS Data Catalogue stores, as well as allows the publication of products of two types: Stock and Fishery. Apart from the default set of metadata, each type of product will also have specific fields. Some of them will also become automatically tags of the product. The same reasoning applies for group associations. In fact a set of groups was already available and each product will be automatically associated to them during publication, if that is the case. Fields that fire tags creation or groups association are documented below.

The publication phase is performed by means of a RESTful service whose publish methods accept JSON objects.

Metadata

Common Metadata

The following table shows the set of core metadata, that is the ones shared by both Stock and Fishery types. Some of them are automatically filled. The values given to some fields are automatically used to tag the product. Check the 'Is Tag' column of the table below. Other fields have a controlled vocabulary (that is, they can assume values selected from a defined set), and the value assigned to these fields allow to automatically determine to which group assign the product. Check the 'Is Group' column below.

mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk (*)

Stock Metadata

The Stock product type also supports the following list of fields.

mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk (*)

Fishery Metadata

The Fishery product type also supports the following list of fields.

mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk (*)

GRSF Publication Web Service

Publication of products is performed by means of a RESTful web service. Each call to the service requires the security token of the user for the context in which he wish to publish or exploit the other functionalities. Please note that in case of product publication it is needed that the user has enough privileges. The list of roles and associated privileges for the catalogue users is reported here. The VRE Manager assignes them.

Check Service Availability

Retrieve the licenses list

Stock Publication Example

Fishery Publication Example

How To Publish a GRSF product using JAVA

Below you find a simple Java client to publish a GRSF product (i.e. a stock).

package [YOUR PACKAGE];

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.ByteArrayRequestEntity;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
 * The Class GRSFPublishMetataTest.
 *
 * @author Francesco Mangiacrapa francesco.mangiacrapa@isti.cnr.it
 * Oct 12, 2016
 */
public class GRSFPublishMetataTest {

	public static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(GRSFPublishMetataTest.class);
	private static final String GRSF_PUBLISHER_REST_SERVICE_URL = "https://pre.d4science.org/grsf-publisher-ws/rest";
	private static enum PRODUCT_TYPE{stock, fishery}
	private static final String PUBLISH_PRODUCT_REQUEST = "publish-product";
	private static final String GCUBE_TOKEN_PARAMETER = "gcube-token";
	private static final String GCUBE_TOKEN_VALUE = "XYZ"; //***********SET YOUR TOKEN************
	private static final String CONTENTTYPE = "application/json";
	private HttpClient httpClient = null;
	public static final int TIME_OUT_REQUESTS = 5000; //5 sec

	/**
	 * Instantiates a new GRSF publish metata test.
	 */
	public GRSFPublishMetataTest() {
		MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager connectionManager = new MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager();
		connectionManager.getParams().setSoTimeout(TIME_OUT_REQUESTS);
		this.httpClient = new HttpClient(connectionManager);

	}


	/**
	 * Publish product.
	 *
	 * @param type the type
	 * @param body the body
	 * @return the string
	 * @throws Exception the exception
	 */
	public String publishProduct(PRODUCT_TYPE type, String body) throws Exception {
		// Create a method instance.
		String buildURL = GRSF_PUBLISHER_REST_SERVICE_URL + "/" + type.toString() +"/"+PUBLISH_PRODUCT_REQUEST +"?"+GCUBE_TOKEN_PARAMETER +"="+GCUBE_TOKEN_VALUE;
		PostMethod method = new PostMethod(buildURL);
		method.setRequestHeader("Content-type", CONTENTTYPE);
		logger.debug("call post to URI .... " + method.getURI());
		logger.debug("	the body is..." + body);
		method.setRequestEntity(new ByteArrayRequestEntity(body.getBytes()));
		byte[] responseBody = null;
		try {
			// Execute the method.
			int statusCode = httpClient.executeMethod(method);

			if (statusCode != HttpStatus.SC_OK && statusCode != HttpStatus.SC_CREATED) {
				logger.error("Method failed: " + method.getStatusLine()+"; Response bpdy: "+method.getResponseBody());
				method.releaseConnection();
				throw new Exception("Method failed: " + method.getStatusLine()+"; Response body: "+new String(method.getResponseBody()));
			}
			// Read the response body.
			responseBody = method.getResponseBody();

		} catch (HttpException e) {
			logger.error("Fatal protocol violation: ", e);
			method.releaseConnection();
			throw new Exception("Fatal protocol violation: " + e.getMessage());
		} catch (Exception e) {
			logger.error("Fatal transport error: ", e);
			method.releaseConnection();
			throw new Exception("Fatal transport error: " + e.getMessage());
		}
		method.releaseConnection();
		return new String(responseBody);
	}

	/**
	 * The main method.
	 *
	 * @param args the arguments
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		try {
			GRSFPublishMetataTest grsfP = new GRSFPublishMetataTest();
			String minimal_json_stock = "YOUR STOCK"; //***********SET YOUR STOCK************
			String response = grsfP.publishProduct(PRODUCT_TYPE.stock, minimal_json_stock);
			logger.info("The Response: "+response);
		}catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

}