Community:NDR/countMembers

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countMembers

Counts the number of NDR objects that are members of an NDR object. For a MetadataProvider object, this is the number of Metadata objects provided.

Request URL

http://ndr.nsdl.org/api/countMembers/[handle]

where [handle] is an NDR handle for an Aggregator or MetadataProvider object.

May be an HTTP GET or POST request.

Arguments

(the handle is at the end of the requestURL)

Response Fields

• handle – the handle for the object whose members were counted.
• count – the number of members for the object. For an Aggregator object, this is the number of objects that have a "membersOf" relationship with the Aggregator object; for a MetadataProvider object, this is the number of metadata objects that have a "metadataProvidedBy" relationship with the MetadataProvider object. For more information, see ObjectTypes.

Response Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<NSDLDataRepository schemaVersion="1.00.000" xmlns="http://ns.nsdl.org/ndr/response_v1.00/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://ns.nsdl.org/ndr/response_v1.00/ http://ns.nsdl.org/schemas/ndr/response_v1.00.xsd">

<responseTime>2005-10-26T18:42:05Z</responseTime>

<requestURL>http://repository.nsdl.org/countMembers/2200/200505051205123T</requestURL>

<resultData>

<handle>2200/200505051205123T</handle>

<count>15</count>

</resultData>

</NSDLDataRepository>

API Links:

• APIBasics
• APIRequestsByObject
• APIRequestsAlphabetical
• ObjectTypes
• Encoding