ESciDoc Services ValidationService

	eSciDoc SOA
	SOAP and REST style interfaces; Service layers;
	Core services ; Context Handler · Item Handler; Container Handler; Organizational Unit Handler; User Account Handler; Authentication; Content Model Handler; Semantic Store Handler;
	Intermediate services; Validation Service; Statistics Manager; Technical Metadata extraction; PIDManager; Basket Handler; Duplication detection; ImageHandler(Digilib);
	Application services; Depositing; Searching ; Search&Export; Control of Named Entities; Citation style Manager; RightsChecking; DataAcquisition; Transformation; Fledged Data; PID Cache; OAI-PMH
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Work in progress

ID (Label)[edit]

validation

Complete Name[edit]

Validation Service

Status[edit]

Implemented

Description[edit]

The validation service provides interfaces for validation of the item and container resources in accordance with defined set of rules. Validation rules are defined for a combination of a content model, validation schema, metadata schema version and a validation point. The validation rules are defined with Schematron

Operations Overview[edit]

Operation	Status	Input	Output	Description
validateItemXml	implemented	itemXml: String	String	Scope:Public Validates an item (as XML string) based on the content-model of the item and the validation schema defined in the context the item belongs to. The default validation point is used.
validateItemXml	implemented	itemXml: String validationPoint: String	String	Scope:Public Validates an item (as XML string) based on the content-model of the item and the validation schema defined in the context the item belongs to using the given validation point.
validateItemXmlBySchema	implemented	itemXml: String validationPoint: String validationSchema: String	String	Scope:Public Validates an item (as XML string) based on the content-model of the item and the given validation schema using the given validation point.
validateItemObject	implemented	itemXml: String	String	Scope:Public Validates an item (as ValueObject) based on the content-model of the item and the validation schema defined in the context the item belongs to. The default validation point is used.
validateItemObject	implemented	itemXml: String validationPoint: String	String	Scope:Public Validates an item (as ValueObject) based on the content-model of the item and the validation schema defined in the context the item belongs to using the given validation point.
validateItemObjectBySchema	implemented	itemXml: String validationPoint: String validationSchema: String	String	Scope:Public Validates an item (as ValueObject) based on the content-model of the item and the given validation schema using the given validation point.
refreshValidationSchemaCache	not implemented			Scope:Public Synchronizes the service's validation schema cache with the underlying validation schema store, i.e. the eSciDoc repository.

Service interfaces[edit]

Validation service operations are offered via EJB, REST and SOAP interfaces.

For example, see Validation service in action

Download[edit]

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Future Development[edit]