CSW Transaction Insert

A transaction Insert shall contain the full metadata record (in ISO 19139 form) to be inserted.

Sample request:

<csw:Transaction service="CSW"  version="2.0.2" xmlns:csw="http://www.opengis.net/cat/csw" >
  <csw:Insert>
     <gmd:MD_Metadata xmlns:gmd="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd"  {... a lot more ns declarations...} >
     <gmd:fileIdentifier>
         <gco:CharacterString>1dde15b5-f497-416e-8e5e-744542658bd7</gco:CharacterString>
     </gmd:fileIdentifier>
     <gmd:language><gco:CharacterString>eng</gco:CharacterString></gmd:language>
     <gmd:characterSet>
         <gmd:MD_CharacterSetCode codeListValue="utf8" 
                              codeList="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/resources/codeList.xml#MD_CharacterSetCode"/>
     </gmd:characterSet>
     <gmd:contact>
     .... a lot more elements ....
     </gmd:MD_Metadata>
  </csw:Insert>
</csw:Transaction>

Sample response:

<?xml version="1.0" ?><csw:TransactionResponse xmlns:csw="http://www.opengis.net/cat/csw/2.0.2">
  <csw:TransactionSummary>
    <csw:totalInserted>1</csw:totalInserted>
    <csw:totalUpdated>0</csw:totalUpdated>
    <csw:totalDeleted>0</csw:totalDeleted>
  </csw:TransactionSummary>
  <csw:InsertResult handleRef="handleRefValue">
    <csw:BriefRecord>
      <identifier>abcdef123</identifier>
    </csw:BriefRecord>
  </csw:InsertResult>
</csw:TransactionResponse>

Exception reports:

The following is a sample exception report occurred when trying to insert the same record twice:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ows:ExceptionReport version="1.0.0" 
 xmlns:ows="http://www.opengis.net/ows" 
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/ows http://schemas.opengis.net/ows/1.0.0/owsExceptionReport.xsd">
  <ows:Exception exceptionCode="NoApplicableCode">
    <ows:ExceptionText>Cannot process transaction: Immediate unique constraint 
                       violation (_ANONYMOUS_CONSTRAINT_17) Columns = ( uuid ) Table = ( APP.Metadata )
    </ows:ExceptionText>
  </ows:Exception>
</ows:ExceptionReport>

See the sample file transaction_insert.xml attached to the GN_Transactions_in_python page.

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