Hi OK,
I've updated the documentation to mention the /handle/{prefix}/{suffix}
endpoint:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/REST+API#RESTAPI-Handle
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Peter Dietz <pe...@longsight.com> wrote:
> 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"
> expand:
> [
> 0]
> lastModified: "2015-07-27 11:00:18.027"
> ...
>
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> 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?
>>
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