Searching for objects in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository

You can search for documents and other objects in the WSRR Eclipse UI by using a combination of different types of criteria.

Before you begin

Before you can search for objects, you must have completed the following task:

Configuring the Eclipse user interface

About this task

When searching for objects in WSRR, you can specify search criteria such as namespace, name, and version. You can also narrow the search to certain types of object, and specify the scope of the search (that is, whether to display properties, relationships, and classifications).

Procedure

To search for objects in WSRR:

In the WSRR Content view, right-click somewhere in the view, then click Retrieve... The Search dialog opens.
In the Search dialog, select the criteria on which you want to search. You must select, as a minimum, the type of object for which you are searching. For example, select the XSD check box to search for XSD files. The number of results that are returned depends on how specific the criteria are. For a list of the criteria on which you can search, see The WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Eclipse user interface.
Click Search. All objects in WSRR that match the search criteria that you specified are displayed in the Retrieved Items dialog, which opens when the search has completed.
Click OK to close the Retrieved Items dialog.

Results

The retrieved items are added to the appropriate categories of the WSRR Content view; for example, if you searched for some XSD documents, the XSD documents that were retrieved are listed under the XSD Documents category in the WSRR Content view. If a document imports another document, for example, if a.xsd imported b.xsd then this is displayed as an expandable tree node with a + symbol next to the a.xsd document.

If you want to retrieve all the objects of a certain type from WSRR, you can quickly do this if you right-click in the WSRR Content view, then click the object type that you want to retrieve; for example, to retrieve all the WSDL documents in WSRR, click Retrieve WSDLs.

What to do next

Now, you can import one or more of the retrieved documents into a project in your local workspace.