Difference between revisions of "Species Product Discovery: client library"

Revision as of 19:58, 20 March 2013

This client library allows user to contact the Species Product Discovery Service.

The spd-client-library is a client library for the Species Product Discovery Service. It helps clients interacting with the service and processing result. This library is part of the FeatherWeight Stack.

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The maven coordinates to get the spd-client-library is:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.gcube.data.spd</groupId>
<artifactId>spd-client-library</artifactId>
<version>${version}</version>
</dependency>

the lastest released version is : 2.0.0

the lastest under development version is : 2.1.0-SNAPSHOT

Architecture

The spd-cl is divided into 4 parts:

• QueryManager: helps clients submitting queries to the service;
• OccurrencesManager: helps clients retrieving occurrences and generating maps using retrieved occurrences;
• TaxonManager: help clients retrieving taxa and their ancestor by ids.
• ExecutorManager: helps clients submitting jobs to the system.

QueryManager API

• public Stream<ResultElement> search(String query) throws InvalidQueryException, UnsupportedPluginException;

This method is used to submit a query to the system. The query MUST be defined following the SPQL grammar.

• public List<PluginDescription> getPluginsDescription();

This method is used to get the list of all external repositories available in the infrastructure and their capabilities.

Example

ScopeProvider.instance.set(...);
Manager manager = manager().build();
List<PluginDescription> pluginDescriptions = manager.getPluginsDescription();
for (PluginDescription description : pluginDescriptions){
     System.out.println(description.getName());          
     ...
}