[Koha-devel] RFC: /svc/ API

[David Cook]

Awesome. Thanks, Julian! 

As for authentication, I think adding a call to C4::Auth:: check_api_auth()
in rest.pl should probably do the trick.

David Cook
Systems Librarian
Prosentient Systems
72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007

> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-
> bounces at lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Julian Maurice
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 July 2014 6:42 PM
> To: koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: /svc/ API
> 
> We at BibLibre wrote koha-restful as a third-party application to be able
to
> extend it quickly.
> Now that things are more stable (the last commit was written a month ago),
I
> would be happy to submit a patch to integrate koha-restful into Koha.
> But IMO it lacks a decent identification/authentication system before it
could
> be integrated. So if someone is interested to work on that, he is welcome
:)
> 
> Le 24/07/2014 02:30, Tomas Cohen Arazi a écrit :
> > We should do as we usually do: set a new context for URIs (/rest/ ?)
> > and implement a RESTfull API there, following all the standards, and
> > versioned from the beggining.
> >
> > We could use CGI::Application::Dispatch, merge koha-restfull and work
> > on top of that (it should be discussed whether we agree on the current
> > API or not), or even do it with a framework, like Dancer [1].
> >
> > And then have a clear deprecation path for the old API.
> >
> > Would be happy to work on that if more people were interested.
> >
> > [1] http://irc.koha-community.org/koha/2014-07-18#i_1538096
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:21 PM, David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Ah, right you are, Galen. It does use a socket. Yeah, that should be
> >> trivial to update connexion_import_daemon.pl.
> >>
> >> None of our folks use OCLC, but that's good to know.
> >>
> >> Going back to my earlier email, MarcEdit would probably benefit from
> >> a richer Koha API as well.
> >>
> >> David Cook
> >> Systems Librarian
> >> Prosentient Systems
> >> 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Galen Charlton [mailto:gmc at esilibrary.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2014 1:22 AM
> >> To: David Cook
> >> Cc: koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: /svc/ API
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:11 PM, David Cook
> >> <dcook at prosentient.com.au>
> >> wrote:
> >>> +1 to a versioned API. I don't think that I use it for anything at
> >>> +the
> >>> moment, but I'm not 100% sure about all our apps. I think we might
> >>> have a third-party one that uses it.
> >>
> >> Also +1 to a versioned API.
> >>
> >>> This script should probably also use PUT, but I have no idea if OCLC
> >>> Connexion supports that.
> >>
> >> I don't believe it matters as far as Connexion is concerned, as it
> >> only talks to connexion_import_daemon.pl via a raw socket.
> >>
> >>> Since there are an indeterminate number of third-party software
> >>> systems using the existing API, I'd recommend versioning and using
> >>> v2 to handle things more RESTfully.
> >>
> >> MarcEdit is one program I know that uses the current API to inject
> >> records into a Koha database.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Galen
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