Ifd:mergeDuplicates

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API version 2

Function public IfdConcept mergeDuplicates (
                                   String guid_to_keep,
                                   String guid_to_merge,
                                   String session_id )
         throws IfdServerException

EXPRESS heading

QUERY_FUNCTION mergeDuplicates(
                  guid_to_keep: STRING;
                  guid_to_merge: STRING) : IfdConcept;

Method to merge two concepts found to be identical. None of the concepts are deleted, but all information is trasferred from the concept_to_merge to the concept_to_keep and the concept_to_merge gets the status TRANSFERRED

Input:

string guid_to_keep - the guid of the concept to retrieve all information from the concept_to_merge.
string guid_to_merge - the guid of the concept to be merged. The status of the concept will be set to TRANSFERRED
string session_id - the session id for the current user

Return:

IfdConcept - the merged concept.

API version 3

Function public IfdConcept mergeDuplicates (
                                   String session_id,
                                   String guid_to_keep,
                                   String guid_to_merge)
         throws IfdServerException

EXPRESS Heading

QUERY_FUNCTION mergeDuplicates(
                      guid_to_keep,
                      guid_to_merge : STRING): IfdConcept;

Method to merge two concepts found to be identical. None of the concepts are deleted, but all information is trasferred from the concept_to_merge to the concept_to_keep and the concept_to_merge gets the status TRANSFERRED

Input:

string session_id - the session id for the current user
string guid_to_keep - global unique id of the target concept;
string guid_to_merge - global unique id of the concept to be merged with target. The status of the concept will be set to TRANSFERRED

Return:

IfdConcept - Fully specified target concept (attributes – see getConcept description).

Difference against v.2.00

(106) In v.2.00 the function did not check if logged user is contexts’ owner (if some of the input concepts are context);
(107) In v.2.00 the function raised error merging relationships of concepts if they are different in types. As result – part of relationships would not merged and invalid IFD population

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