Hi Kåre

As a possible work-around, you could try accessing an object you know will
always be there - for example one of the system content model objects;

eg

http://localhost:8080/fedora/objects/fedora-system:FedoraObject-3.0

Perhaps we should consider using a system object in the sample access URL?

Regards
Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kåre Fiedler Christiansen [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 19 May 2010 09:56
> To: Fedora Users
> Subject: [Fedora-commons-users] Intended usage of describeRepository
> 
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> What is the intended usage of describeRepository from API-A?
> 
> I'm setting up external monitoring of a Fedora instance, and 
> I use that
> method to query some basic state of the repository. This is just for
> some basic "traffic-light" surveillance of the repository, 
> signalling if
> it is running properly or not.
> 
> I expected that I could do the following:
>  * Call describeRepository (this will check if the API 
> responds at all)
>  * Query the sampleSearchURL to see that basic searching works
>  * Query the sampleAccessURL to see if access to an object works
> 
> I had expected that samples were configured in fedora.fcfg, just like
> the Admin email addresses are.
> 
> However, it turns out that the sample access URL always refers to the
> object "demo:5", so I need to import an object with that PID 
> for that to
> work at all. also the samplePID is hardcoded, although to a different
> value, which is "repositoryPIDNamespace":100.
> 
> This does not seen very resonable to me. At the very least, the same
> samplePID should be used in all examples. Furthermore, if you 
> don't use
> numeric PIDs in your repository, the samplePID seems plain wrong for
> your repository.
> 
> I suggest adding samplePID as a configuration parameter to 
> fedora.fcfg,
> and using that value in all samples.
> 
> Best,
>   Kåre
> -- 
> Kaare Fiedler Christiansen - Software Architect
> THE STATE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, 
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