Adding Metadata Objects

Example of an AddMetadata Request That Creates an Association to an Object in Another Repository

This example contains two AddMetadata method calls:

The first method call creates a second repository.
The second method call creates a Document object in the new repository and associates the Document object with the SASLibrary object created in Example of an AddMetadata Request That Creates an Application Metadata Object. A Document object has an Objects association to a SASLibrary object.

This method call creates the second repository:

<AddMetadata>
  <Metadata>
    <RepositoryBase
      Name="Test repository 2"
      Desc="Second test repository."
      Path="C:\testdat\repository2"
      RepositoryType="Custom">
    </RepositoryBase>
   </Metadata>
   <Reposid>A0000001.A0000001</Reposid>
   <NS>REPOS</NS>
   <!-- OMI_TRUSTED_CLIENT flag -->
   <Flags>268435456</Flags>
   <Options/>
</AddMetadata>

In the method call, note the following:

The <METADATA> element submits a property string that defines a RepositoryBase object. Path= and RepositoryType= are required attributes.
The <REPOSID> element specifies the SAS Repository Manager identifier.
The <NS> element specifies the REPOS namespace.
The <FLAGS> parameter specifies the OMI_TRUSTED_CLIENT flag (268435456).

Here is an example of the output returned by the SAS Metadata Server:

<!-- Using the ADDMETADATA method. -->

<RepositoryBase Name="Test repository 2" Desc="Second test repository." 
  Path="C:\testdat\repository2" Id="A0000001.A5KD78HW" Access="0"
 RepositoryType="Custom"/>

Test repository 2 is assigned the unique repository identifier A0000001.A5KD78HW.

This AddMetadata method call creates the Document object in Test repository 2:

<AddMetadata>
 <Metadata>
    <Document  Name="Sales Summary" Desc="Summary of Sales Activity in the NW Region"
  PublicType="Document">
       <Objects>
        <SASLibrary ObjRef="A53TPPVI.A1000001"/>
       </Objects>
    </Document>
 </Metadata>
 <Reposid>A0000001.A5KD78HW</Reposid>
 <NS>SAS</NS>
 <Flags>268435456</Flags>
 <Options/>
</AddMetadata>

In this method call, note the following:

The <METADATA> subelement that defines the Objects association to the SASLibrary object specifies the Objref= attribute. The value in the Objref= attribute is in the form Reposid.ObjectId, where Reposid is the repository identifier of Test repository 1 and ObjectId is the SASLibrary object's 8-character identifier.
The <REPOSID> element specifies the unique repository identifier assigned to Test repository 2.

Here is an example of the output returned by the SAS Metadata Server:

<!-- Using the ADDMETADATA method. -->

<Document Name="Sales Summary" Desc="Summary of Sales Activity in the NW Region" 
  PublicType="Document" Id="A5KD78HW.A1000001">
 <Objects>
   <SASLibrary ObjRef="A53TPPVI.A1000001"/>
 </Objects>
</Document>

Document object A5KD78HW.A1000001 was successfully created in repository A0000001.A5KD78HW.

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