Read-only Mode

Metacat has a feature to place itself in a read-only mode - its content can NOT be modified, however, can be read and searched. The default setting of Metacat is the not-read-only mode. You may make Metacat read-only by setting the value of a property to “true” on the metacat.properties file, then restart Tomcat.

application.readOnlyMode=true

To cancel the read-only mode, set the property back to “false”, then restart Tomcat.

application.readOnlyMode=false

When Metacat is in the read-only mode, the following Metacat and DataONE API methods are disabled.

Metacat API:

• upload
• insert
• update
• delete
• setaccess
• buildindex
• reindex
• reindexall
• scheduleWorkflow
• unscheduleWorkflow
• rescheduleWorkflow
• deleteScheduledWorkflow
• forcereplicatedatafile
• forcereplicate
• forcereplicatesystemmetadata
• forcereplicatedelete
• forcereplicatedeleteall
• replicate.update
• replicate.start

DataONE Member Node API:

• MN.create
• MN.update
• MN.archive
• MN.delete
• MN.replicate
• MN.systemMetadataChanged
• MN.updateSystemMetadata

Mehtods on the DataONE Coordinating Node API are not disabled because the Coordinating Nodes currently have a different read-only mechanism.