Might be worth taking at look at the Zend HTTP Client, which comes bundled with
the Zend Framework, which I've found to be a fairly elegant solution when
working in PHP.
For example, you can set the encoding type like this:
$client->setRawData($xml)->setEncType('text/xml')->request('POST');
The $xml value would house the XML you want to send to Fedora.
Documentation here:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.http.html
I've included a quick function below just to demonstrate how it could work with
the REST interface.
function goddardlibapi_getnextpid($namespace)
{
$url =
"http://libossils.gsfc.nasa.gov:9000/fedora/objects/nextPID?namespace="; .
$namespace . "&format=xml";
include_once('Zend/Http/Client.php');
$client = new Zend_Http_Client($url);
$client->setAuth('username','password');
$response = $client->request('POST');
if($response->getStatus() == 200){
$str = $response->getBody();
$xml = simplexml_load_string($str);
return (string) $xml->pid;
}else{
return FALSE;
}
}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Wilper [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:38 PM
To: Don Gourley
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Fedora-commons-users] mimeType not working on add/modify
Datastream REST API
Hi Don,
Although this should work in Fedora 3.3, the REST API in Fedora 3.1
didn't support a mimeType parameter...it always used the one that was
in the request header.
Compare:
http://fedora-commons.org/documentation/3.1/Fedora%20REST%20API.html
to:
http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCR30/REST+API#RESTAPI-addDatastream
If you can't upgrade to 3.3, you might try avoiding libcurl and do it directly:
http://netevil.org/blog/2006/nov/http-post-from-php-without-curl
...not sure how relevant that is these days, and I'm far from
php-savvy, but it may be worth a shot.
- Chris
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Don Gourley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Jason, I have tried that and the datastreamVersion I got was:
>
> <foxml:datastreamVersion ID="dctst.4" LABEL="Test Modify"
> CREATED="2010-03-01T20:14:28.119Z"
> MIMETYPE="text/xml;boundary=----------------------------48598ac9f1c5">
>
> and I also got the boundary and some header stuff mixed in to the top
> of the datastream. So It looks like it is messing up the multipart
> content-type rather than assigning it to the XML part of the request
> content. This post is the best explanation of how PHP/libcurl is
> broken that I've found:
>
> http://osdir.com/ml/web.curl.php/2007-12/msg00033.html
>
> I'm new to PHP, and FedoraCommons, but it seems simpler to use the
> mimeType parameter if I can figure if/how it works.
>
> -Don
>
> On 3 March 2010 14:06, Jason Nugent <[email protected]> wrote:
>> hi Don,
>>
>> Have you tried using the PHP libcurl function curl_setopt() to set the
>> MIME type for your PHP curl call?
>>
>> $header = array();
>> $header[] = "Content-Type: text/html";
>>
>> ... other additions to $header, and then:
>>
>> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
>>
>> before you do your curl_exec() call.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> On 3/3/10 2:49 PM, Don Gourley wrote:
>>> When I add or modify a managed XML datastream using the REST API, I am
>>> unable to get the correct mime-type on the datastreamVersion. For
>>> example,
>>>
>>> curl -i -XPUT
>>> "https://example.com:8443/fedora/objects/demo:29/datastreams/dctst?mimeType=text/xml&controlGroup=M&dsLabel=Test+mimeType";
>>> --data-binary @dc.xml -k -u fedoraAdmin:******
>>>
>>> creates a datastreamVersion like this:
>>>
>>> <foxml:datastreamVersion ID="dctst.5" LABEL="Test mimeType"
>>> CREATED="2010-03-03T18:10:23.286Z"
>>> MIMETYPE="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
>>> <foxml:contentLocation TYPE="INTERNAL_ID" REF="demo:29+dctst+dctst.5"/>
>>> </foxml:datastreamVersion>
>>>
>>> (I've tried it url-encoded with the mimeType=text%2Fxml also)
>>>
>>> I know that I can add -H "Content-Type: text/xml" to the cURL command
>>> and get the right mime-type in the datastreamVersion, but the problem
>>> is that I am trying to write client application using PHP and libcurl
>>> and adding a content-type request header doesn't work with that mix.
>>> And the mimeType parameter is supposed to override the request header
>>> anyway, or am I not using it correctly?
>>>
>>> I am trying to update a Fedora 3.1 repository.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> -Don
>>>
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