Infrastructure

Refactored ResourceHandler.putObject() to take a global identifier (guid) on input rather than a localId. The method now calls IdentifierManager.generateLocalId() to create a metacat-conformant local identifier, which is used for the insert or update. So now arbitrary string identifiers can be used through the Metacat Rest interface. Still need to handle update semantics, but this depends upon changing the putObject method to identify the old object that is being updated so that an appropriate new identifier can be used by incrementing the revision. Also need to expose exception data and http error codes to the client, but this depends on exceptions being better specified. So, that work on exceptions should be tackled under the create() and update() bugs for MN 0.3, rather than here.

Partially refactored REST interface to separate create() and update() methods, rather than having a single putObject() method. More refactoring to be done before support for arbitrary identifiers in update() can be completed.