• schema:EntryPoint

• EntryPoint - briefcase_collection_create

• path

  The path of the collection to create.

• permissions

  The permissions of the newly created collection as detailed in Resource Permissions

• parents

  Can be one of all or none, to either create all parent collections or not. In the latter (the default) case the command will fail on existing collections. all is comparable to the -p option of the *NIX mkdir command.

• det

  The optional DET type of the created collection. If omitted a normal folder will be created. Can be one of:

  Box - Box external drive

  Dropbox - Dropbox external drive

  IMAP - IMAP mail box

  GDrive - Google Drive external drive

  RACKSPACE - RACKSPACE external drive

  S3 - Amazon S3 external drive

  SkyDrive - SkyDrive external drive

  Share - Shared resources

  WebDAV - WebDAV external drive

  CardDAV - WebDAV CardDAV extension (RFC 6352)

  CalDAV - WebDAV CalDAV extension (RFC 4791)

  DynamicResource or DR - a store for dynamic SQL queries (in particular SPARQL)

  LinkedDataImport or LDI - import RDF data in an internal RDF graph

  SocialNetwork or SN - Social Networks external drives: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, WordPress, Google+

  FTP - FTP external drive (passive mode)

Box, Dropbox, SkyDrive, GDrive, SocialNetwork DET parameters:

network (SocialNetwork only) - The social network identifier - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or WordPress

S3 DET parameters:

activity - create activity log ('on') or not ('off')

RACKSPACE DET parameters:

activity - create activity log ('on') or not ('off')

IMAP DET parameters:

activity - create activity log ('on') or not ('off')

WebDAV DET parameters:

activity - create activity log ('on') or not ('off')

Digest parameters:

user (*) - name for WebDAV access

WebID parameters:

key (*) - name of the stored key used for WebDAV access

Linked Data Import (LinkedDataImport or LDI) DET parameters:

graph (*) - SPARQL graph to store extracted triplets

Social Networks (SocialNetwork or SN) parameters:

network - The social network identifier - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, WordPress or Google+

FTP parameters:

activity - create activity log ('on') or not ('off')

Share, CardDAV, CalDAV, Dynamic Resource (DynamicResource, DR) DETs have not parameters.

An error code as defined in Response format with a value of 1 on success. On error the HTTP status code will be set to 403 or 400, depending on the type of error.

$ curl -i "http://ods-qa.openlinksw.com/ods/api/briefcase.collection.create?path=/DAV/home/demo/mytest&user_name=demo&password_hash=921q783d9e4cbdf5cvs343dafdfvrf6a4fh"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Virtuoso/06.02.3129 (Solaris) x86_64-pc-solaris2.10-64  VDB
Connection: Keep-Alive
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:07:07 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Length: 60

<result>
  <code>1</code>
  <message>Success</message>
</result>

Example 2 (DET IMAP):

$ curl -i "http://ods-qa.openlinksw.com/ods/api/briefcase.collection.create?path=/DAV/home/demo/mydet&user_name=demo&password_hash=921q783d9e4cbdf5cvs343dafdfvrf6a4fh&det=IMAP&det_connection=ssl&det_server=imap.gmail.com&det_port=993&det_user=ods.check&det_password=*******"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Virtuoso/06.02.3129 (Solaris) x86_64-pc-solaris2.10-64  VDB
Connection: Keep-Alive
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:07:07 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Length: 60

<result>
  <code>1</code>
  <message>Success</message>
</result>

Example 3 (DET Dropbox):

$ curl -i "http://ods-qa.openlinksw.com/ods/api/briefcase.collection.create?path=/DAV/home/demo/mydet&user_name=demo&password_hash=921q783d9e4cbdf5cvs343dafdfvrf6a4fh&det=Dropbox"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Virtuoso/06.02.3129 (Solaris) x86_64-pc-solaris2.10-64  VDB
Connection: Keep-Alive
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:07:07 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Length: 60

<result>
  <code>1</code>
  <message>Success</message>
</result>

Example 4 (DET SkyDrive):

$ curl -i "http://ods-qa.openlinksw.com/ods/api/briefcase.collection.create?path=/DAV/home/demo/mydet&user_name=demo&password_hash=921q783d9e4cbdf5cvs343dafdfvrf6a4fh&det=SkyDrive"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Virtuoso/06.02.3129 (Solaris) x86_64-pc-solaris2.10-64  VDB
Connection: Keep-Alive
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:07:07 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Length: 60

<result>
  <code>1</code>
  <message>Success</message>
</result>

Example 5 (DET Linked Data Import):

$ curl -i "http://ods-qa.openlinksw.com/ods/api/briefcase.collection.create?path=/DAV/home/demo/mydet&user_name=demo&password_hash=921q783d9e4cbdf5cvs343dafdfvrf6a4fh&det=LDI&det_graph=urn:dav:home:demo:mydet&det_base=http://ods-qa.openlinksw.com/DAV/home/demo/mydet"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Virtuoso/06.02.3129 (Solaris) x86_64-pc-solaris2.10-64  VDB
Connection: Keep-Alive
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:07:07 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Length: 60

<result>
  <code>1</code>
  <message>Success</message>
</result>

This function requries authentication via one of the supported authentication methods as described in ODS Authentication.

• Create a new WebDAV collection/folder.

• https://ods-qa.openlinksw.com/ods/api/briefcase.collection.create 

• permissions
• det
• parents
• path

• briefcase_collection_create