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checkIndexed returns an int value that indicates if the metadata for this object has been
inserted into the query engine. The value is -1 if the metadata was already inserted before this
operation was called, 0 if the metadata has still not been inserted, or 1 if the metadata was just
now inserted.
retrieveObject
Writes all of the data for the specified object into the provided channel, returning the amount of
data actually retrieved.
Synopsis
public long retrieveObject(ObjectIdentifier oid,
WritableByteChannel dataChannel)
throws ArchiveException, java.io.IOException
public long retrieveObject(ObjectIdentifier oid,
java.nio.channels.WritableByteChannel
dataChannel,long firstByte,
long lastByte)
throws ArchiveException, java.io.IOException
Description
Takes an OID and downloads the data object into a supplied WritableByteChannel.
retrieveMetadata
Returns a NameValueRecord instance containing the system and name-value metadata for the
metadata record identified by the OID.
Synopsis
public NameValueRecord
retrieveMetadata(ObjectIdentifier oid)
throws ArchiveException, java.io.IOException
Description
Returns a NameValueRecord instance containing the system and name-value metadata for the
metadata record identified by the OID.
getSchema
Returns the runtime configuration of the name-value object archive as a NameValueSchema
instance.
Java API
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