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Revision as of 18:15, 20 March 2013

This client library allows user to contact the Species Product Discovery Service.

The spd-client-library is a client library for the Species Product Discovery Service. It helps clients interacting with the service and processing result. This library is part of the FeatherWeight Stack.

Download

The maven coordinates to get the spd-client-library is:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.gcube.data.spd</groupId>
<artifactId>spd-client-library</artifactId>
<version>${version}</version>
</dependency>

the lastest released version is : 2.0.0

the lastest under development version is : 2.1.0-SNAPSHOT


Architecture

The spd-cl is divided into 4 parts:

  • QueryManager: helps clients submitting queries to the service;
  • OccurrencesManager: helps clients retrieving occurrences and generating maps using retrieved occurrences;
  • TaxonManager: help clients retrieving taxa and their ancestor by ids.
  • ExecutorManager: helps clients submitting jobs to the system.

QueryManager API

To submit a query to the system the following method is used

public Stream<ResultElement> search(String query) throws InvalidQueryException, UnsupportedPluginException;

The query MUST be defined following the SPQL grammar.

Example