So after messing around with dspace's REST and getting a semi-working php search to work with it, I am struck by how much I still had to talk to SOLR and postgres directly. So it got me wondering, just what is the REST interface for? I was under the impression that I would be able to use it to write a custom browse interface.
Here are the things I needed that I could not get from REST that I had to ask SOLR and postgres for: - Search dspace for anything - Give me the total number found. - Find out what the primary bitstream is. - The owning collection of an item I am guessing that I had the wrong impression of REST. What was it's intended purpose in dspace? Is it a work in progress? Will there be more features? Or am I completely barking up the wrong tree? Thanks - Mark On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 7:41:44 AM UTC-5, Mark Ehle wrote: > > Folks - > > We are in the middle of replacing our really old instance of dspace (3.?) > with 5.4. I have a VM all cranked up and ready to go with a stock install > of Dspace 5.4, and have imported all of our data with no trouble. I can > search and retrieve data from the jspui. Very nice work on the UI btw. Much > better than before. > > As I would like to create a custom browse interface using openseadragon, I > have been playing around with the REST interface and it seems to do what > it's supposed to but I can't seem to make it search for anything. > > This URL: > http://localhost:8080/rest/collections > returns a JSON formatted list of collections as it should. > > This... > > http://localhost:8080/rest/discover.json?q=* > > ...returns nothing. What am I doing wrong? > > > Thanks! > > Mark Ehle > Willard Library > Battle Creek, MI > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to dspace-tech@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
