This method provides a lighter weight mechanism than getSystemMetadata() for a client to
determine basic properties of the referenced object. This operation requires read privileges for the
object specified by 'pid', as is granted with a DataONE authentication token or X.509 certificate.
describeObject(x, ...)# S4 method for D1Node
describeObject(x, pid)
The MNode or CNode instance to send request to.
(Not yet used)
Identifier for the object in question. May be either a PID or a SID. Transmitted as part of the URL path and must be escaped accordingly.
A list of header elements
https://purl.dataone.org/architecture/apis/MN_APIs.html#MNRead.describe
# NOT RUN {
library(dataone)
mn_uri <- "https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/d1/mn/v1"
mn <- MNode(mn_uri)
pid <- "knb.473.1"
describeObject(mn, pid)
describeObject(mn, "adfadf") # warning message when wrong pid
# }
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