Digital Entity Manager

This service is used to execute digital entities commands.

Interface type: Web Service

The DigitalEntityManager service uses a DigitalEntityCall method that gets two parameters: a general attribute XML and a digital entity call.

DigitalEntityManager.digitalEntityCall API

A generic function for creating / deleting / updating / retrieving digital entities

When updating a digital entity, each node that you want to update should be marked for update by the cmd attribute.

The control section is always updated as a whole. Thus, to update only part of the control section, the best practice would be to first retrieve the digital entity, modify it, and then send a request for update.

On the mds/relations nodes, the cmd attribute can have one of the following values:

• delete_and_insert_all – deletes all existing sub-items and inserts the new ones
• delete_and_insert_delta – updates each item separately

On the md/relation/stream_ref node, the cmd attribute can have delete/insert/update values

The digitalEntityCall method returns a DigitalEntityResult document. This document holds the results digital entity and error if applicable.

For example, a delete call that failed because the object does not exist:

Result from success create call:

DigitalEntityManager.digitalEntityWithRelationsCall API

Returns a digital entity with extended relation information for a given PID:

DigitalEntityManager.digitalEntityWithRelationsCall API

Returns a digital entity with extended relation information for a given PID:

• Creating a digital entity with metadata / local stream / and relation

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xb:digital_entity_call xmlns:xb="http://com/exlibris/digitool/repository/api/xmlbeans">
  <xb:digital_entity>
    <control>
      <label>hello world</label>
      <note>bla bla..</note>
    </control>
    <mds>
      <md>
        <description>general dc record for book</description>
        <name>descriptive</name>
        <type>dc</type>
        <value>The dc records goes here...</value>
      </md>
    </mds>
    <relations>
      <relation>
        <type>part_of</type>
        <pid>1001</pid>
      </relation>
    </relations>
    <stream_ref store_command="copy" location="nfs">
      <file_name>/temp/file1.txt</file_name>
    </stream_ref>
  </xb:digital_entity>
  <command>create</command>
</xb:digital_entity_call>

• Deleting a digital entity by a given PID

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xb:digital_entity_call xmlns:xb="http://com/exlibris/digitool/repository/api/xmlbeans">
  <xb:digital_entity>
    <pid>1001</pid>
  </xb:digital_entity>
  <command>delete</command>
</xb:digital_entity_call>

• Retrieving a digital entity by a given PID

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xb:digital_entity_call xmlns:xb="http://com/exlibris/digitool/repository/api/xmlbeans">
  <xb:digital_entity>
    <pid>1001</pid>
   <stream_ref cmd="update" store_command="copy" location="nfs">
      <file_name>/temp/file1.txt</file_name>
   </stream_ref>
  </xb:digital_entity>
   <command>update</command>
</xb:digital_entity_call>

• Deleting all digital entity relations

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xb:digital_entity_call xmlns:xb="http://com/exlibris/digitool/repository/api/xmlbeans">
  <xb:digital_entity>
    <pid>1001</pid>
    <relations cmd="delete_and_insert_all"/>
  </xb:digital_entity>
   <command>update</command>
</xb:digital_entity_call>

• Deleting a metadata node from a digital entity

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xb:digital_entity_call xmlns:xb="http://com/exlibris/digitool/repository/api/xmlbeans">
  <xb:digital_entity>
    <pid>1001</pid>
    <mds cmd=delete_and_insert_delta">
      <md cmd="delete">
        <mid>2001</mid>
      </md>
    </mds>
  </xb:digital_entity>
   <command>update</command>
</xb:digital_entity_call>

• Linking (shared) Metadata to a Digital Entity

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xb:digital_entity_call xmlns:xb="http://com/exlibris/digitool/repository/api/xmlbeans">
<xb:digital_entity>
  <pid>1001</pid>
  <mds cmd="delete_and_insert_delta">
    <md cmd="insert" link_to_exists="true">
     <mid>2001</mid>
   </md>
  </mds>
</xb:digital_entity>
<command>update</command>
</xb:digital_entity_call>