Hi,
I am currently working on adding some features to a Plugin built by our Library
Software development group at UIUC Library. The plugin enables support for Dell
DX6000 devices with Fedora Commons.
(https://github.com/medusa-project/akubra-dell-dx)
One of the requirements we have is to be able to get the metadata like
'Content/MIME-type' from fedora before persisting the fedora object to device.
I read about the new features in the 3.6 release of Fedora and I wanted to
leverage the FedoraHintsProvider interface which enables us to send metadata in
the hints argument while persisting the object to akubra.
(We already have the capability in our plugin to capture the information sent
in the hints argument and use it further, hence all I need to do is to
implement the above interface to send those hints).
The obvious way to do that is to add a class which has the implementation of
the methods of the FedoraHintsProvider interface in the Fedora Commons
repository. These methods will fetch the required metadata information. Then we
can inject that implementation as a dependency using the spring configuration
file.
However, this will require me to change the codebase of fedora repository and
add my implementation there. Ideally, I want the implementation to be a part of
our plugin(the akurba-dell-dx implementation that interfaces with Dell storage
devices).
Can you please let me know if what I am considering to do is even possible(and
an appropriate approach)?
Thanks and Regards,
Nikhil Tayal
Graduate Student(Masters in Computer Science) and Programmer(Digital Library
Research Lab)
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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