Metadata Select services¶
These services are for creating and managing a set of selected metadata records. The selected set is normally used by the metadata.batch services eg. Batch update privileges (xml.metadata.batch.update.privileges), Batch new owner (xml.metadata.batch.newowner), Batch update status (xml.metadata.batch.update.status), Batch update categories (xml.metadata.batch.update.categories), Batch start versioning (xml.metadata.batch.version), Batch process metadata records with an XSLT (xml.metadata.batch.processing) and Batch Delete (xml.metadata.batch.delete).
Select metadata records (xml.metadata.select)¶
This service can be used to build and manage a selected set of metadata.
Request¶
Parameters:
- id: Identifier of metadata to select (can be more than one)
- selected: Selection state. Values: add, add-all, remove, remove-all
Select all metadata example:
Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/metadata.select
Mime-type:
application/xml
Post request:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<request>
<selected>add-all</selected>
</request>
Select a metadata record example:
Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/metadata.select
Mime-type:
application/xml
Post request:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<request>
<id>2</id>
<selected>add</selected>
</request>
Clear metadata selection example:
Url:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/metadata.select
Mime-type:
application/xml
Post request:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<request>
<selected>remove-all</selected>
</request>
Response¶
The XML response from this service always contains the number of metadata records selected after applying the select operation.
Example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<request>
<Selected>10</Selected>
</request>
