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It should use the same internal APIs as the rest of Koha. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>David Cook<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Systems Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Prosentient Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>72/330 Wattle St<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Ultimo, NSW 2007<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Office: 02 9212 0899<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Direct: 02 8005 0595<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kyle Hall<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 17 August 2016 4:31 AM<br><b>To:</b> Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl><br><b>Cc:</b> koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Koha-devel] What's on in Koha devel #3 (RESTful API)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>In my mind, we should be moving all appropriate logic to Koha/Objects with Koha/REST being just an api wrapper around the appropriate object. That will keep us from duplicating code and reduce bugs.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Kyle<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://secure2.convio.net/cffh/site/Donation2?df_id=1395&FR_ID=4715&PROXY_ID=2706639&PROXY_TYPE=20&1395.donation=form1&s_src=CHORUS&s_subsrc=CHAADOEB" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://widgets.ch-or.us/badge/convio/cff/4715/2706639"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.kylehall.info" target="_blank">http://www.kylehall.info</a><br>ByWater Solutions ( <a href="http://bywatersolutions.com" target="_blank">http://bywatersolutions.com</a> )<br>Meadville Public Library ( <a href="http://www.meadvillelibrary.org" target="_blank">http://www.meadvillelibrary.org</a> )<br>Crawford County Federated Library System ( <a href="http://www.ccfls.org" target="_blank">http://www.ccfls.org</a> )<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 3:28 AM, Marcel de Rooy <<a href="mailto:M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl" target="_blank">M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>> = RESTful API =<br>> I also would like to know who is willing to maintain this code? For instance on bug 16330 (REST API: add routes to add, update and delete<br>> patrons) the delete route is calling<br>> # check if loans, reservations, debarrment, etc. before deletion!<br>> my $res = $patron->delete<br>> So no check is done from the API.<br>> But if bug 16907 (Move DelMember and HandleDelBorrower to<br>> Koha::Patron) is pushed, $patron->delete will take care of the holds, etc. My question is simple: are we expecting from devs, signoffers and > QAers to update and maintain these routes?<br>> Or a dedicated person will update them before each release?<br><br>Just formally, I would say that if the community agreed to push this code, the community should maintain it too. We should keep the code base in a consistent state. Similarly, we should prevent redundant code: the checks for deleting a patron in one place, etc.<br><br>If we are on a road now creating a lot of redundant code between Koha/REST and Koha/Objects, we should re-evaluate first and not just keep pushing more code. Is this mainly a communication issue? Which goals do we want to achieve? Should our scripts go via REST some day and should all business logic remain in Objects? Etc. etc.<br><br>Marcel<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Koha-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org">Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel</a><br>website : <a href="http://www.koha-community.org/" target="_blank">http://www.koha-community.org/</a><br>git : <a href="http://git.koha-community.org/" target="_blank">http://git.koha-community.org/</a><br>bugs : <a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/" target="_blank">http://bugs.koha-community.org/</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>