# All Classes and Interfaces

Class
Description
AbstractExtension
The SAS Metadata Model supports extensions to enable end users and application developers to define additional attributes that are not part of an object's metadata type definition.
AbstractJob
A job is a set of processes that initiate a process or create an output such as a data store or output table.
AbstractPrompt
The parent class for types used by the SAS Prompt Interface.
AbstractProperty
Used to contain name/value pairs.
AbstractTransformation
The parent type for transformation types.
AccessControl
An access control is an object that relates an identity and a permission to a resource in order to regulate access to the resource.
AccessControlEntry
The AccessControlEntry metadata type is used to define an access control directly on a resource.
AccessControlTemplate
The AccessControlTemplate (ACT) metadata type enables you to define a template of individual users, groups, and permissions that can be applied to multiple resources.
Action
An action that will be performed when a stated condition is met.
Aggregation
A summary of detail data that is stored with or referred to by a cube.
AnalyticColumn
Contains analytic attributes to apply to a column.
AnalyticContext
References a location that has SAS analytic content.
AnalyticTable
Contains analytic attributes to apply to a table.
ApplicationAction
Represents a feature/action of an application.
ArchiveEntry
One of several metadata types used to describe the physical location of some form of content.
ArchiveFile
Represents an archive, such as a tar file or a zip file, which may contain entries.
AssociationList
Extension of List to manage associations between objects.
AssociationProperty
The SAS Metadata Model provides a Prototype metadata type to define templates that can be used to create metadata entities.
AttributeProperty
The SAS Metadata Model provides a Prototype metadata type to define templates that can be used to create metadata entities.
AuthenticationDomain
Authentication domains provide logical groupings for resources and logins in a metadata repository.
CalculatedMeasure
In a dimension, a member whose value is derived from the values of other members.
CalculatedMember
Beginning in SAS 9.3, represents a new member in a dimension of a cube.
Change
This type is used by Change Mangement.
Classifier
A classifier is an element that describes structural and behavioral features.
ClassifierMap
Used to map any number of Classifier objects to any number of Classifier objects.
CMetadata
Column
Represents a column in a table, view, etc.
ColumnHierarchy
Used to assign columns to a hierarchy for the associated data table.
ColumnRange
Represents a range of columns.
COMConnection
Represents a COM connection.
Condition
A condition that when met may activate an action or set of actions.
ConditionActionSet
A set that contains the condition that must be met and the set of actions to be performed.
ConditionalPrecedence
The preceding and succeeding steps based on the stated condition.
ConfiguredComponent
Installed software that has configuration information in addition to the licensing information.
Connection
Represents the information required to connect to a server.
ContentLocation
The supertype for all types that provide location information.
ContentType
Describes the type of content contained in the associated object.
Cube
A logical set of data that is organized and structured in a hierarchical, multidimensional arrangement.
CustomAssociation
Defines a custom association between any two metadata objects.
DatabaseCatalog
A namespace for contained database schemas.
DatabaseSchema
A relational schema that contains tables that are not in SAS data sets.
DataSourceName
Represents a data source name (DSN) that is a construct used by the SAS table server to identify a data source definition.
DataTable
An abstract type that represents an object that contains a set of columns.
DeployedComponent
An abstract metadata type that represents installed software.
DeployedDataPackage
A container of data files (files that contain data) or other Deployed Data Packages.
Device
Describes location information for SAS Filerefs.
DeviceType
Defines a prototype for a specific supported device.
Dimension
A group of closely related hierarchies.
Directory
Represents a physical operating system path.
Document
A Document is a web page or other conent that contains documentation pertinent to the object to which this document is related.
Email
An e-mail address.
Event
Describes a condition that occurs that drives other actions, ie. jobs, to be processed.
Extension
Extension enables end users and application developers to define additional attributes that are not part of an object's metadata type definition.
ExternalIdentity
This is an ID associated with the object in some other context, such as a GUID or DN for LDAP .
ExternalTable
Represents a table in an external data file.
FastMetadata
FastMetadata is a lightweight wrapper for the attribute and association maps returned by the getMetadataNoCache and getMetadataObjectsNoCache methods of `MdOMIUtil`.
FavoritesContainer
Contains one or more links to an object that a user has marked as a favorite.
Feature
A feature is a property that is encapsulated within a Classifier.
FeatureMap
Used to map any number of Feature objects to any number of Feature objects.
File
Represents a file in the file system.
FitStatistic
Usually a measure of the accuracy of a predicted value.
ForeignKey
Represents the fact that a table contains a foreign key to another table.
GlobalFormula
PROC OLAP and OLAP CUBE Studio enable users to define formulas for the dimensions of a cube that result in the creation of calculated members and named sets.
Group
This type represents the ability to group metadata together.
GroupByClause
DEPRECATED: Has an association to the columns used to group this data.
HavingClause
DEPRECATED: Represents a Having clause in an SQL statement.
Hierarchy
An arrangement of members of a dimension into levels that are based on parent-child relationships.
HierarchyLevel
Represents a level within one and only one hierarchy.
Identity
Identity - abstract class for objects that identify an entity.
IdentityGroup
Grouping mechanism for identity objects.
Index
Represents an index on a physical structure.
InternalLogin
Internal use only.
ITChannel
A content distribution center.
ITContentSubscriber
A subscriber profile for content subscribers.
ITEventSubscriber
A subscriber profile for event subscribers.
ITFilter
A filter string is used to include or exclude content going to a specific subscriber.
ITSubscriber
A subscriber profile is used to control how published content is delivered to a user.
JFJob
Represents a job that has been or will be scheduled in the LSF JobFlow.
Job
Groups transformation activities to be an actual runtime unit.
Join
The output of a Join is limited to one JoinTable.
JoinTable
DEPRECATED: Represents an instance of a join between two tables.
Key
Represents keys on tables.
KeyAssociation
Represents the relationship between two columns in a foreign key, unique key relationship.
Keyword
The name attribute of this object is a single word that can be used to identify this object.
Level
An element of a dimension hierarchy.
LocalizedResource
Contains the localized values for a particular locale as defined by the LocalId attribute.
LocalizedType
This is the abstract supertype for all of the types that have localized resources.
Location
This type represents a location that includes a type (is it a street address, or an office number), as well as address information (street, city, country).
LogicalColumn
The supertype for Column, which is part of a relational table, and Measure, which is used with OLAP types.
LogicalServer
Used to define a homogeneous group of servers.
Login
Represents login information for a given user in a given authentication domain.
Machine
Represents a physical machine.
MdConnectionEvent
The event class used for signalling clients when a connection to the metadata server has been lost.
MdConnectionListener
Interface used for notifying clients when a connection to the metadata server has been lost.
MdEvent
MdEvent is used to notify interested parties that state has changed in the event source.
MdException
This exception type is used to define a metadata exception in general, whether it be a read/write/parse exception itself.
MdFactory
The MdFactory interface is used for controlling the creation of metadata objects and object stores.
MdFactoryEvent
This is the event class used for signalling when objects are created, modified, and deleted on the server.
MdFactoryImpl
This creates objects and Object Stores to be used by views of the metadata.
MdFactoryListener
Interface used for notifying clients when changes have been persisted to the server.
MdObjectBase
Root class of all metadata classes.
MdObjectBaseUtil
Provides the Store object and event interactions for Metadata objects.
MdObjectBaseXML
Provides the XML object interactions for Metadata objects.
MdObjectFactoryListener
This Listener handles events for objects creation and deletion on the server.
MdObjectListener
Details events that are generated for an individual object.
MdObjectStore
This a store of objects for a view's interaction.
MdOMAEntityUtility
This class is used for the persistence/serialization of entities to OMR.
MdOMIUtil
Used to perform operations against the metadata server, such as querying and deleting objects.
MdOMRConnection
Used to manage connections the the SAS/Open Metadata Repository.
MdRepositoryUtil
The interface defining the utility class for retrieving repository information.
MdSecurityUtil
Utility class used for retrieving the necessary security permissions for a metadata object.
MdServerStore
This is the Main store of objects (Cache) for interactions with the server.
MdStore
This describes the base store object for metadata
MdStoreIDChangeListener
The listener interface for an object store hashmap and its contained items.
MdStoreListener
The listener interface for an object store hashmap and its contained items.
Measure
A special dimension that contains summarized numeric data values that are analyzed.
Memory
Represents a result of a transformation that resides in memory on the server.
MetadataObjects
This interface defines the objects of the SAS Open Metadata Architecture model as constant variables.
MetadataResource
Each package has a standard set of resources named PropertyBundle.
MetadataState
This class defines the state that the attributes and association lists of an object can be.
MiningResult
Represents a SAS Enterprise Data Mining Model that is a formula or algorithm that computes outputs from inputs.
NamedService
Describes the name of the service and how the name is used (as rebind, bind, or lookup).
NamedSet
Beginning in SAS 9.3, represents a named set in dimension of a cube.
NumericExtension
This allows an application to create a numeric extension to any object.
OLAPProperty
An attribute associated with members of a given dimension level.
OLAPSchema
This is a grouping of Cubes accessible from a SAS OLAP server.
OnClause
DEPRECATED: Represents an SQL ON clause.
OpenClientConnection
An abstract type that represents the connection information needed by an open client to access a deployed component.
OrderByClause
Has an association to columns used to order the data.
Permission
A permission represents an action that a user may attempt against a resource in the metadata server.
PermissionCondition
Stores an expression that is applied to conditionally grant a user or group access to a resource.
Person
This type represents the information kept about a person.
Phone
A phone number and the type of phone number (home, office, mobile, fax).
PhysicalTable
A "materialized" table that resides in a database or a file system.
PrimaryType
The PrimaryType subtypes are the starting point for modeling a logical metadata definition.
Prompt
For use by the SAS Prompt Interface.
PromptGroup
For use by the SAS Prompt Interface.
Property
A parameter, option or other type of information that is used to tailor a metadata object.
PropertyGroup
Represents a group of properties.
PropertySet
A PropertySet contains a complete set of properties to be used by the OwningObject in a particular context.
PropertyType
Defines the data type of a property.
Prototype
Used to create a template for creating other metadata objects or set of metadata objects that represent a concept.
PrototypeProperty
This is the super type for types that define properties that are for prototype objects only.
PSColumnLayoutComponent
Provides the information needed to lay a PortalPage out in columns.
PSLayoutComponent
A UI element that designates how Portlets should be laid out on a PortalPage.
PSPortalPage
A PortalPage gathers and displays information in the Portal, and can be customized.
PSPortalProfile
A SAS Information Delivery Portal user's portal information, which defines the basic functionality of the portal.
PSPortlet
A Web component that is managed by a Web application and that is aggregated with other portlets to form a page within the application.
QueryClause
This abstract type represents types that are used to define the transformations that are performed.
QueryTable
Result set of a query.
RelationalSchema
The abstract type that acts as the supertype for any type that can contain table objects.
RelationalTable
Represents a relational table, one that does not have a physical representation.
Report
Represents the result of data being transformed into a report.
ResponsibleParty
This metadata type associates a responsibility with an identity.
Role
This object describes a role of of an object, and the context of the role.
Root
This is an abstract type that is the supertype for all of the other metadata types.
RowSelector
Used to document a SAS DATA step SELECT statement.
SASCatalog
Represents a SAS file that stores many different kinds of information in smaller units called catalog entries.
SASCatalogEntry
Represents a separate storage unit within a SAS catalog.
SASClientConnection
Represents the information needed by SAS software to connect to other servers.
SASFileRef
Represents a name temporarily assigned to an external file or to an aggregate storage location that identifies it to SAS.
SASLibrary
Represents a SAS library.
SASLicense
Used to document the setinit information for SAS products.
SASPassword
Represents the storage of SAS passwords for SAS tables or connections.
Search
This object is used to store information for search definitions.
SecondaryType
The SecondaryType subtypes are used along with the PrimaryType subtypes to create a logical metadata definition for an object.
SecuredLibrary
A SecuredLibrary object is created for a SAS physical library when it is bound to metadata with the AUTHLIB procedure of SAS.
SecuredTable
A SecuredTable object is created for a physical SAS data set when a data set with the same name is first created in a metadata-bound library.
SecurityRule
This is an abstract class from which other "SecurityRules" will derive.
SecurityRuleScheme
This class is used to group SecurityRules into a unit.
SecurityTypeContainmentRule
A SecurityTypeContainmentRule tells the authorization facility how to find parent objects for a particular metadata type.
Select
Used to document an SQL select statement.
ServerComponent
Represents servers and spawners.
ServerContext
Used to define an application context for non-homogeneous group servers.
ServiceComponent
Represents software that acts as a service.
ServiceType
The types of services available from a DeployedComponent.
SharedDimension
Shared dimension is contained by its schema and may be used by more than one cube.
SoftwareComponent
Used to define an application hierarchy.
StepPrecedence
The preceding and succeeding steps in a process.
Stream
Represents a stream of data.
SXLEMap
Root node for SXLE map definition.
SyncStep
The SyncStep is used to define a part of workflow.
TableCollection
A classifier that defines a set of tables that all share the same characteristics but that should be treated as one classifer for display purposes.
Target
Represents a variable whose values are known in one or more data sets that are available (in training data, for example) but whose values are unknown in one or more future data sets (in a score data set, for example).
TCPIPConnection
Contains information for making a TCP/IP connection to a server.
Text
The superclass for files, SAS catalog entries and text stored in the repository itself.
TextStore
Represents storing text in the repository.
Timestamp
This object contains a timestamp and the role of the timestamp.
Transformation
This type is used for generic transformations such as stored procedures.
TransformationActivity
TransformationActivity contains TransformationSteps.
TransformationStep
TransformationStep contains mapping objects.
Tree
This type represents a tree that is the root node for a hierarchy of groups of metadata.
TSNameObject
Table server name object.
TSNamespace
Table server namespace.
TypeDefinition
Type definition is used to describe members of the SAS type dictionary.
UniqueKey
A representation of the unique and primary keys of a table.
UnitofTime
Unit of time.
UnsupportedPlatformVersionException
Variable
Used to define substitution strings and the replacement values.
WhereClause
DEPRECATED: Represents a Where SQL Clause.
WorkTable
Represents a table that is created as part of running SAS code that is not intended to be persisted.
XMLUtil
Contains utility methods for xml processing.
XPath
Used to describe an XPath location path.