Overview of Querying Metadata

Using GetRepositories to Get the Registered Repositories

You can get the repositories that are registered on a SAS Metadata Server by issuing the GetRepositories method. The following is an example of a GetRepositories request that is formatted for the INMETADATA parameter of the DoRequest method.

<GetRepositories>
   <Repositories/>
   <Flags>0</Flags>
   <Options/>
 </GetRepositories>

The request gets the Id=, Name=, Desc= and DefaultNS= attributes of all repositories registered on the SAS Metadata Server. Here is an example of the output returned by the SAS Metadata Server:

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

<GetRepositories>
   <Repositories>
     <Repository  Id="A0000001.A55WR3E8" Name="Foundation" Desc=" " DefaultNS="SAS"/> 
     <Repository  Id="A0000001.A59XXOKF" Name="Custom" Desc=" " DefaultNS="SAS"/> 
     <Repository  Id="A0000001.A5NJI601" Name="Custom2" Desc=" " DefaultNS="SAS"/> 
     <Repository  Id="A0000001.A5J5NMEG" Name="Custom3" Desc=" " DefaultNS="SAS"/> 
     <Repository  Id="A0000001.A5G61RLY8" Name="Project" Desc=" " DefaultNS="SAS"/>
  </Repositories> 
</GetRepositories>

The current SAS Repository Manager has five repositories registered in it: Foundation, Custom, Custom2, Custom3, and Project.

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