Vault 不同版本的API的異同

大家知道，Autodesk Vault 2014有幾個版本，依次為( Basic, Workgroup, Professional),不同版本的功能不相同,關於Vault產品功能的不同之處可以在Vault的產品主頁看到。但經常會有客戶問到Vault的API在不同版本下有什麼不同嗎？ 或者要實現某個功能，在Vault Basic可以滿足需要嗎？畢竟大家都想盡可能的節約成本。

對於Vault API來說，各個版本的API功能區別主要體現在是否支援某些服務，這些服務的列表在Vault SDK的“Web Services”節中可以找到。為了方便，我總結了下面這個表格：

	Vault Basic	Vault Workgroup	Vault Professional
AdminService Contains methods for manipulating users and groups.	✓	✓	✓
AuthService A service for authenticating to the Vault server.	✓	✓	✓
DocumentService Contains methods for manipulating files and folders within a vault.	✓	✓	✓
FilestoreService A service for uploading and downloading binary file data.	✓	✓	✓
FilestoreVaultService Information on the Knowledge Vaults.	✓	✓	✓
KnowledgeVaultService Contains methods for getting information about the vaults and options settings.	✓	✓	✓
InformationService Contains methods to determine information about the server and supported products	✓	✓	✓
IdentificationService Provides the locations of the data server and the filestore server.	✓	✓	✓
ItemService Contains methods for manipulating items.	✓	✓	✓
BehaviorService Contains methods for manipulating behaviors on Entities.	Limited	✓	✓
CategoryService Contains methods for manipulating categories.	Limited	✓	✓
JobService Contains methods for manipulating the job queue.	Limited	✓	✓
LifeCycleService Contains methods for manipulating lifecycles on Entities.	Limited	✓	✓
PropertyService Contains methods for manipulating properties on Entities.	Limited	✓	✓
ReplicationService Contains methods for transfering ownerhsip between workgroups.	Limited	✓	✓
RevisionService Contains methods for manipulating revision values and schemes for Entities.	Limited	✓	✓
SecurityService Contains methods for setting security on specific Entities.	Limited	✓	✓
ReplicationService Contains methods for transfering ownerhsip between workgroups.	Limited	Limited	✓
DocumentServiceExtensions Contains more methods for manipulating files and folders within a vault.	-	✓	✓
ChangeOrderService Contains methods for creating and manipulating change orders.	-	-	✓
CustomEntityService Contains methods for creating and manipulating custom entities.	-	-	✓
ForumService Contains methods for posting messages.	-	-	✓
ItemService Contains methods for manipulating items.	-	-	✓
PackageService Contains methods for importing and exporting item data	-	-	✓
WinAuthService Contains methods for logging into and out of vaults using Windows credentials.	-	-	✓

除此之外，Vault API還提供了方法來檢測你現在正在連線的vault伺服器的版本， Web Service API中的InformationService有GetSupportedProducts（）方法可以用來判斷當前Vault伺服器所支援的Vault版本。另外，VDF還提供了一些有用的特性來檢查你是否正在使用適當的Vault版本，在VDF中的IVaultConnectManagerService，你可以使用SetProductRequirements（）方法指定你的應用所需要的Vault版本，通過這樣的方法，你可以阻止應用連線到不支援的Vault版本。具體的用法，大家可以參考SDK中的線上幫助文件。