RDH handles bes:showCatalog request

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Description

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The RDH receives and responds to a bes:showCatalog request for the Datasets (ODBC Data Sources) that it is offering.

Goal

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Summary

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The BES receives a request for a catalog that it identifies as being serviceable by the RDH.

The RDH uses it's cached list of ODBC Data Sources to build a bes:showCatalog response and then returns the bes:response document to the client.

Actors

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client
A BES client application

Preconditions

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  1. The BES is installed and configured - including the correct installation and configuration of the RDH

Triggers

Here we describe in detail the event or events that brings about the execution of this use case. Triggers can be external, temporal, or internal. They can be single events or when a set of conditions are met, List all triggers and relationships.

  • A client issues a bes:showCatalog command for the Datasets serviced by the RDH.

Basic Flow

Often referred to as the primary scenario or course of events. In the basic flow we describe the flow that would be followed if the use case where to follow its main plot from start to end. Error states or alternate states that might be highlighted are not included here. This gives any browser of the document a quick view of how the system will work. Here the flow can be documented as a list, a conversation or as a story.(as much as required)


  1. The BES receives a request containing a bes:showCatalog command for the RDH holdings. (How do we know it wants the RDH catalog? Will the RDH have it's own catalog? Or will it claim part of the resource URI space? Or something else? ndp)
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <bes:request xmlns:bes="http://xml.opendap.org/ns/bes/1.0#" reqID="[http-8080-1:16:bes_request]">
      <bes:setContext name="errors">xml</bes:setContext>
      <bes:showCatalog node="/data/stuff/" />
    </bes:request>
    Make sure to update this to match what we actuall use! ndp 16:27, 28 April 2009 (PDT)
  2. In the BES, the RDH is identified as the service will provide the requested catalog response.
  3. The RDH constructs a catalog response containing a Dataset entry for each ODBC Data Source in it's cached list of Data Source names.
  4. The RDH serializes the response document object back to the BES client:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
    <response xmlns="http://xml.opendap.org/ns/bes/1.0#" reqID="[http-8080-1:16:bes_request]">
      <showCatalog>
       <dataset catalog="catalog" count="18" lastModified="2008-07-16T23:59:34" name="/data/stuff" node="true" size="782">
        <dataset catalog="catalog" lastModified="2008-05-29T23:31:54" name="dataSourceOne" node="false" size="7944799">
          <serviceRef>dap</serviceRef>
        </dataset>
        <dataset catalog="catalog" lastModified="2008-05-29T23:31:54" name="dataSourceTwo" node="false" size="7944799">
          <serviceRef>dap</serviceRef>
        </dataset>
        <dataset catalog="catalog" lastModified="2008-05-29T23:31:54" name="dataSourceThree" node="false" size="7944799">
          <serviceRef>dap</serviceRef>
        </dataset>
       </dataset>
      </showCatalog>
    </response>
    Make sure to update this to match what we actuall use! ndp 16:27, 28 April 2009 (PDT)

Alternate Flow

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Post Conditions

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At the end of the Basic Flow the RDH will have returned to a ready state, awaiting the next transaction.

Activity Diagram

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Notes

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Resources

In order to support the capabilities described in this Use Case, a set of resources must be available and/or configured. These resources include data and services, and the systems that offer them. This section will call out examples of these resources.


Resource Owner Description Availability Source System
BES Data Provider The data server Assumed available as it is the framework from within which the RDH operates. Hardware running the BES.