GCat Service

The gCube Science Catalogue Service is a RESTful web service based on the principles defined in gCube Catalogue

Collections

• Group
• Item
• Resource
• License
• Organization
• User
• Profile
• Namespace

Group Collection

Operation	HTTP Method	URL
List	GET	/groups
Create	POST	/groups
Read	GET	/groups/{NAME}
Update	PUT	/groups/{NAME}
Patch	PATCH	/groups/{NAME}
Delete	DELETE	/groups/{NAME}
Purge	PURGE	/groups/{NAME}
Purge	DELETE	/groups/{NAME}?purge=true

Item Collection

Operation	HTTP Method	URL
List	GET	/items
Create	POST	/items
Read	GET	/items/{NAME}
Update	PUT	/items/{NAME}
Delete	DELETE	/items/{NAME}
Purge	PURGE	/items/{NAME}
Purge	DELETE	/items/{NAME}?purge=true

Resource Collection

Operation	HTTP Method	URL
List	GET	/items/{NAME}/resources
Create	POST	/items/{NAME}/resources
Read	GET	/items/{NAME}/resources/{ID}
Update	PUT	/items/{NAME}/resources/{ID}
Delete	DELETE	/items/{NAME}/resources/{ID}

License Collection

Operation	HTTP Method	URL
List	GET	/licenses

Organization Collection

Operation	HTTP Method	URL
List	GET	/organizations
Create	POST	/organizations
Read	GET	/organizations/{NAME}
Update	PUT	/organizations/{NAME}
Patch	PATCH	/organizations/{NAME}
Delete	DELETE	/organizations/{NAME}
Purge	PURGE	/organizations/{NAME}
Purge	DELETE	/organizations/{NAME}?purge=true

User Collection

Operation	HTTP Method	URL
List	GET	/users
Create	POST	/users
Read	GET	/users/{NAME}
Update	PUT	/users/{NAME}
Delete	DELETE	/users/{NAME}

Profile Collection

Operation	HTTP Method	URL
List	GET	/profiles
Read	GET	/profiles/{NAME}

A profile is defined using XML. It is possible to get the original XML definition using 'Accept' HTTP Header.

Accept : application/xml

instead of

Accept : application/json

Namespace Collection

Operation	HTTP Method	URL
List	GET	/namespaces