Lookup/Ibis web service client API

Classes summary

GroupMethods	Methods for querying and manipulating groups.
IbisAttribute	Class representing an attribute of a person or institution returned by the web service API. Note that for institution attributes, the `IbisAttribute::$instid`, `IbisAttribute::$visibility` and `IbisAttribute::$owningGroupid` fields will be `null`.
IbisAttributeScheme	Class representing an attribute scheme. This may apply to attributes of people or institutions.
IbisClientConnection	Default implementation of the `ClientConnection` interface, to allow methods in the Lookup/Ibis web service API to be invoked.
IbisContactPhoneNumber	Class representing a phone number held on an institution contact row, for use by the web service API.
IbisContactRow	Class representing an institution contact row, for use by the web services API.
IbisContactWebPage	Class representing a web page referred to by an institution contact row, for use by the web service API.
IbisDto	Abstract base class for all DTO classes. This defines a couple of methods used when unmarshalling DTOs from XML.
IbisError	Class representing an error returned by the web service API.
IbisGroup	Class representing a group returned by the web service API.
IbisIdentifier	Class representing a person's identifier, for use by the web service API.
IbisInstitution	Class representing an institution returned by the web service API.
IbisMethods	Common methods for searching for objects in the Lookup/Ibis database.
IbisPerson	Class representing a person returned by the web service API. Note that the identifier is the person's primary identifier (typically their CRSid), regardless of which identifier was used to query for the person.
IbisResult	Class representing the top-level container for all XML and JSON results. This may be just a simple textual value or it may contain more complex entities such as people, institutions, groups, attributes, etc.
IbisResultParser	Class to parse the XML from the server and produce an IbisResult.
InstitutionMethods	Methods for querying and manipulating institutions.
PersonMethods	Methods for querying and manipulating people.

Interfaces summary

ClientConnection	Interface representing a connection to the Lookup/Ibis server, capable of invoking methods on the web service API and unmarshalling the results.

Exceptions summary

IbisException	Exception thrown when a web service API method fails. This is wrapper around the `IbisError` object returned by the server, which contains the full details of what went wrong.