Hi Hayden,
Thanks for your interest in DSpace 4+ REST (Jersey).
The readme has info on the endpoints:
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/tree/master/dspace-rest
Is it compatible, to go from a previous REST API, to the current Jersey
API? It depends.
Play! Framework client (demo): http://dspace-rest-client-play.herokuapp.com/
Ruby on Rails client (demo): http://dspace-rails.herokuapp.com/
It might not have all the information your looking for, especially if you
are expecting to receive restricted content, or to do CRUD actions. Recent
development on the REST/Jersey api have been to work on search, and viewing
statistics (thanks Anja). I expect to have that cleaned up, and merged in,
before DSpace 5 release.
Kim Shepherd and I have been discussing authentication. I'm in favor of
using OAUTH1. But essentially, I don't want to add any CRUD endpoints,
until we have authentication solidly figured out. i.e. It might work for
one institution to hack something like ?epersonID=1 to authenticate within
your firewall, but another institution might miss on some security
concerns. So, I'm thinking its best to have an authentication stack that
works great when complemented with SSL, but, can still securely transfer
auth tokens without ssl.
At Open Repository 2014, I heard that there were some groups that had added
additional CRUD endpoints, to allow them to integrate their LMS/gradebook
with DSpace REST (jersey), but skipped auth, since it was within their
firewall. It would be interesting to hear from that group, and or see some
code.
So yes, ideally I would love to have proper auth, and full CRUD endpoints
in DSpace REST in time for DSpace 5. I personally have a lot of my plate,
that I don't see myself accomplishing that alone.
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Hayden Young <haydenyo...@wijiti.com>
wrote:
> What is the current situation on the Jersey REST API bundled with DSpace
> 5 in regards to the additional endpoints documented at
> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/REST+API.
>
> We are attempting to support the Jersey REST API for existing production
> DSpace instances by using the documented endpoints, in particular bitstream
> retrieval and writing back to the DSpace archive.
>
> Additionally, what is the current status on alternative user
> authentication mechanisms in Jersey REST? The documentation discusses
> username/password being passed as part of the url although I believe there
> was discussion around other authentication functions being implemented.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Hayden
> email. hay...@knowledgearc.com
> web. http://knowledgearc.com, http://knowledgearc.org
>
>
> On 10/09/14 23:10, Peter Dietz wrote:
>
> Greetings from the DSpace 5.0 Release Team!
>
> We have another exciting release of DSpace in the works that has been
> growing steadily over the past few months. Many contributors have been busy
> adding new features and improvements to DSpace. This speaks volumes to the
> maturity, stability, and future of DSpace, that as the software project
> approaches its 12th year, we're still going strong. Read on for ways to
> help contribute, and find out the new features in DSpace 5.
>
> The full release schedule is here:
>
> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+5.0+Status
>
> October 6: Deadline for Feature Pull Requests
>
> In plain English, October 6 is the last day you may submit new features
> for acceptance into DSpace 5.0. If you are working on a new feature for
> DSpace, we urge you to prepare a Pull Request now. Getting your work
> visible early as a Pull Request allows others to review, and help steer
> your contribution to inclusion in the next release.
>
> Here’s how:
>
> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Code+Contribution+Guidelines
> Other Important Dates:
>
> October 31 5.beta-1 - Release Candidate 1
>
> November 03-14 Testathon (mark your calendar)
>
> November 20 5.beta-2 - Release Candidate 2
>
> December (mid) DSpace 5.0 Release
>
> Of course, this also means we have a large pile of pull requests which
> need review, and other features that have been contributed but should still
> receive plenty of testing. We’d like to take a moment to call a few of
> those out, as they represent features we know are important to the
> community. If any of these features “speak to you” please consider pitching
> in with the review and testing work.
>
> The complete list of pull requests is here:
>
> https://github.com/dspace/dspace/pulls
>
> Six great new features in DSpace 5
>
> We couldn't choose just 5 great new features in DSpace 5, here's six great
> features you should take a look at:
>
> DS-1461/DSPR#591 Batch Import Items from ZIP through UI
>
> https://github.com/dspace/dspace/pull/591
>
> DS-1582/DSPR#629 Metadata for all DSpace objects (not just items)
>
> https://github.com/dspace/dspace/pull/629
>
> DS-2061/DSPR#568 Linked Open Data for DSpace
>
> https://github.com/dspace/dspace/pull/568
>
> DS-2049/PR#612 ORCID Integration
>
> https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/612
>
> DS-2052/PR#587 Mirage2 Responsive Theme
>
> https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/587
>
> DS-2108/PR#615 Google Analytics Statistics viewer (page views and
> downloads)
>
> https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/615
>
> There are also many more great proposals for DSpace 5. The status page
> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+5.0+Status has a
> full listing of things that we hope would make it in, contributions
> welcome. Lastly, we are still looking for more people to join the Release
> Team. Responsibilities include attending weekly developer meetings,
> reviewing pull requests, and ensuring requests get proper feedback and
> testing.
> ________________
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> Longsight
> www.longsight.com
> pe...@longsight.com
> p: 740-599-5005 x809
>
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