Hi OK, The endpoint to look up an object by its handle is <base-rest-url>/handle/<handle-number>. So, for example: https://demo.dspace.org/rest/handle/10673/14?expand=all
The /handle/<handle-number> endpoint doesn't appear to be properly documented. Here is the HandleResource in the code. https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/master/dspace-rest/src/main/java/org/dspace/rest/HandleResource.java#L37 It produces a rest DSpaceObject (so if the handle yields an Item, the response is a rest Item in json/xml). { id: 10 name: "Test submit" handle: "10673/14" type: "item" link: "/rest/items/10 <chrome-extension://hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo/rest/items/10>" expand: [ 0] lastModified: "2015-07-27 11:00:18.027" ... ________________ Peter Dietz Longsight www.longsight.com pe...@longsight.com p: 740-599-5005 x809 On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Ondřej Košarko <kosa...@ufal.mff.cuni.cz> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it currently possible, using the dspace5 rest api, to access the > items/collections/communities using handles rather than internal-ids? > > I can see a workaround for items - first find-by-metadata-field. But that > seems bit cumbersome. Handles or some other PIDs are already used to > reference items*, collections, etc. and they are "guaranteed" not to > change. > > *imagine you want to have on your personal homepage, together with PID, > some other metadata for the submission. > imagine you are using dc.relation.* (with PIDs as value) to link some of > the submissions together and are creating a visualization of the relations. > > It's doable for items but there always will be at least two requests for > each, or am I missing some other way? > > Regards, > OK > > > PS: Is it possible to have wildcards in metadataEntries? Both - keys and > values? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > List Etiquette: > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette >
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