Vault 不同版本的API的异同

大家知道，Autodesk Vault 2014有几个版本，依次为( Basic, Workgroup, Professional),不同版本的功能不相同,关于Vault产品功能的不同之处可以在Vault的产品主页看到。但经常会有客户问到Vault的API在不同版本下有什么不同吗？ 或者要实现某个功能，在Vault Basic可以满足需要吗？毕竟大家都想尽可能的节约成本。

对于Vault API来说，各个版本的API功能区别主要体现在是否支持某些服务，这些服务的列表在Vault SDK的“Web Services”节中可以找到。为了方便，我总结了下面这个表格：

	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还提供了方法来检测你现在正在连接的vault服务器的版本， Web Service API中的InformationService有GetSupportedProducts（）方法可以用来判断当前Vault服务器所支持的Vault版本。另外，VDF还提供了一些有用的特性来检查你是否正在使用适当的Vault版本，在VDF中的IVaultConnectManagerService，你可以使用SetProductRequirements（）方法指定你的应用所需要的Vault版本，通过这样的方法，你可以阻止应用连接到不支持的Vault版本。具体的用法，大家可以参考SDK中的在线帮助文档。