Writing Repository Governance Services¶

Interface¶

The interface that all repository governance services must implement is defined by RepositoryGovernanceService :

Figure 1: Methods implemented by an archive service

• initialize is a standard method for all connectors that is called by the connector broker when the connector is created. The connector is passed the connection object from the configuration and a unique identifier for this instance of the connector.
• setAuditLog provides a logging destination (see Audit Log Framework (ALF)).
• setContext sets up the archive context. This provides an interface to the repository services (OMRS) that provide access to the open metadata.
  • The ability to register a listener to receive events from the Enterprise OMRS Topic.
  • The ability to retrieve metadata instances from any connected open metadata repository.
• start indicates that the archive service is completely configured and can begin processing. This call can be used to register a listener with the Enterprise OMRS Topic through the context and to update the archive store with the current state of the metadata in the repositories.
• disconnect is called when the server is shutting down. The archive service should free up any resources that it holds since it is not needed any more.

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