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    blueprint.rst
    spec-loading.rst
    protocol-reference.rst
-   spec-technical.rst
    spec-meta-deposit.rst
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-Technical specifications
-========================
-
-Requirements
-~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-*  one dedicated database to store the deposit's state - swh-deposit
-*  one dedicated temporary storage to store archives before loading
-*  one client to test the communication with SWORD protocol
-
-Deposit reception schema
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* SWORD imposes the use of basic authentication, so we need a way to
-  authenticate client. Also, a client can access collections:
-
-  **deposit\_client** table:
-
-    - id (bigint): Client's identifier
-    - username  (str): Client's username
-    - password (pass): Client's encrypted password
-    - collections ([id]): List of collections the client can access
-
-* Collections group deposits together:
-
-  **deposit\_collection** table:
-
-    - id (bigint): Collection's identifier
-    - name (str): Collection's human readable name
-
-*  A deposit is the main object the repository is all about:
-
-   **deposit** table:
-
-   - id (bigint): deposit's identifier
-   - reception\_date (date): First deposit's reception date
-   - complete\_data (date): Date when the deposit is deemed complete and ready
-     for loading
-   - collection (id): The collection the deposit belongs to
-   - external id (text): client's internal identifier (e.g hal's id, etc...).
-   - client\_id (id) : Client which did the deposit
-   - swh\_id (str) : swh identifier result once the loading is complete
-   - status (enum): The deposit's current status
-
-- As mentioned, a deposit can have a status, whose possible values are:
-
-  .. code:: text
-
-        'partial',   -- the deposit is new or partially received since it
-                     -- can be done in multiple requests
-        'expired',   -- deposit has been there too long and is now deemed
-                     -- ready to be garbage collected
-        'deposited'  -- deposit complete, it is ready to be checked to ensure data consistency
-        'verified',  -- deposit is fully received, checked, and ready for loading
-        'loading',   -- loading is ongoing on swh's side
-        'done',      -- loading is successful
-        'failed'     -- loading is a failure
-
-* A deposit is stateful and can be made in multiple requests:
-
-  **deposit\_request** table:
-
-  - id (bigint): identifier
-  - type (id): deposit request's type (possible values: 'archive', 'metadata')
-  - deposit\_id (id): deposit whose request belongs to
-  - metadata: metadata associated to the request
-  - date (date): date of the requests
-
-  Information sent along a request are stored in a ``deposit_request`` row.
-
-  They can be either of type ``metadata`` (atom entry, multipart's atom entry
-  part) or of type ``archive`` (binary upload, multipart's binary upload part).
-
-  When the deposit is complete (status ``deposited``), those ``metadata`` and
-  ``archive`` deposit requests will be read and aggregated. They will then be
-  sent as parameters to the loading routine.
-
-  During loading, some of those metadata are kept in the ``origin_metadata``
-  table and some other are stored in the ``revision`` table (see `metadata
-  loading <#metadata-loading>`__).
-
-  The only update actions occurring on the deposit table are in regards of:
-
-    - status changes (see figure below):
-
-       - ``partial`` -> {``expired``/``deposited``},
-       - ``deposited`` -> {``rejected``/``verified``},
-       - ``verified`` -> ``loading``
-       - ``loading`` -> {``done``/``failed``}
-
-    - ``complete_date`` when the deposit is
-      finalized (when the status is changed to ``deposited``)
-    - ``swh-id`` is populated once we have the loading result
-
-.. figure:: ../images/status.svg
-   :alt: