1. Introduction

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The cardant package provides a server for managing inventories.

Tracks user-defined items within user-defined hierarchical storage locations.
Strongly-typed metadata with user-defined types.
Rich search functionality; perform complex searches over item metadata with automatic pagination and sorting.
Full API access for all operations.
Full Java API for performing operations.
Fine-grained capability based security model for operations; Safely write external services that can perform operations while maintaining the principle of least privilege.
Command-line shell.
Complete audit log; every operation that changes the state of the system is logged in an append-only log.
Fully instrumented with OpenTelemetry.
A small, easily auditable codebase with a heavy use of modularity for correctness.
An extensive automated test suite with high coverage.
Platform independence. No platform-dependent code is included in any form, and installations can largely be carried between platforms without changes.
OSGi-ready
JPMS-ready
Support for Canonmill keystores.
ISC license.