Use of OMI_IGNORE_NOTFOUND flag in OpenMetadata interface

Question

In SAS Open Metadata reference (page 126), it says: The UpdateMetadata method enables you to update the properties of existing metadata objects. It returns an error if the metadata object to be updated does not exist, unless the OMI_IGNORE_NOTFOUND (134217728) flag is set.

Here is my problem, if I specify the flag or I don't specify the flag, I still get the same error: ("SASLibrary : A5X8AHW1.B40000SQ cannot be found in the wlibrary container in the Foundation repository.")

Here is a snippet that reproduces the error:

import com.sas.meta.SASOMI.IOMI;
import com.sas.metadata.MetadataUtil;
import org.omg.CORBA.StringHolder;

IOMI iOMI = ... // an instance of IOMI connection

StringHolder outputMeta = new StringHolder();

String request = ""
        + "<UpdateMetadata>"
        + "   <Metadata>"
        + "     <SASLibrary Id=\"A5X8AHW1.B40000SQ\"/>"
        + "   </Metadata>"
        + "   <NS>SAS</NS>"
        + "   <Flags>" + (MetadataUtil.OMI_IGNORE_NOTFOUND | MetadataUtil.OMI_TRUSTED_CLIENT | MetadataUtil.OMI_RETURN_LIST) + "</Flags>"
        + "   <Options/>"
        + "</UpdateMetadata>"
        ;

iOMI.DoRequest(request, outputMeta);

Any ideas what is going wrong?

Any following the breadcrumbs, more information is on here: https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Use-of-OMI-IGNORE-NOTFOUND-flag-in-SAS-OpenMetadata-interface/m-p/374600/ — Vasilij Nevlev, Jul 12 '17 at 05:52

FriedEgg · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-11T22:52:33.883

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Contrary to what that document states, I have only seen OMI_IGNORE_NOTFOUND flag work with the DeleteMetadata method.

The javadoc also seems to support this by stating

OMI_IGNORE_NOTFOUND (134217728) This flag is for DeleteMetadata to tell it to ignore objects not found so that it will not return on error.

com.sas.metadata.remote.MdOMIUtil Interface Field Summery

edited Jul 11 '17 at 22:52

answered Jul 10 '17 at 21:11

FriedEgg

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OMI_IGNORE_NOTFOUND will work with UpdateMetadata when you are using that method to perform deletes, such as removing associations of dependent objects – FriedEgg Jul 12 '17 at 00:45
Hello @FriedEgg, your comment makes a lot of sense in context of the documentation. Thank you. I will test the code and put an answer here as well as communities.sas.com – Vasilij Nevlev Jul 12 '17 at 05:11

Use of OMI_IGNORE_NOTFOUND flag in OpenMetadata interface

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