April 2018 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

OAuth2 - client credentials fr 18.05
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Hi, during the 18.05 release cycle a lot of progress has been made towards the goal of having a REST api. We voted the written and discussed RFC for the endpoints there was need to have [1] Some of them are already in master for 18.05, others are WIP. But the fact we have some roadmap of things we agreed on is a great milestone. Congrats! The missing piece for this (besides making the REST api grow faster) is having a standard way to authenticate external systems so they can interact with Koha in a healthy way. Take Coral as an example: it needs to be able to add biblios, add purchase orders, etc. Or custom user management systems to inject patrons or update their statuses, etc. We chose to implement the OAuth2 client credentials grant, which is a standard for this kind of use cases. Great work Julian! [2]. The patches have gone through the QA process, and we are almost done. We still have 2 days before the feature freeze to adjust things. So if you have an opinion (positive, negative but constructive, etc), please comment here or better in the related bugs. It is now, or after the release! Thanks! [1] https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/REST_api_RFCs [2] *https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/showdependencygraph.cgi?id=20612 <https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/showdependencygraph.cgi?id=20612>* -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (https://theke.io <http://theke.io/>) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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Koha now requires Perl 5.20
by David Cook 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Hi all, I just tried to work on Koha master on OpenSUSE 42.3, which was released on 2017-07-26, but I'm being prevented from installing Koha, because OpenSUSE 42.3 uses Perl 5.18.2 rather than Perl 5.20. I tracked the change back to https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20104. The claim was that C4::Log::cronlogaction uses caller and that caller doesn't exist before Perl 5.20, but that's not true. The caller function has been in Perl for an extremely long time. You can find it in RHEL 6.9 which uses Perl 5.10. I just used it in Perl 5.18.2. So that doesn't seem like a good justification for requiring a minimum version of Perl 5.20. I have a feeling that this change is going to bite other people developing and using Koha around the world. There are people running Koha on openSUSE, Suse Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS. probably other distros as well. Are we really going to exclude everyone that doesn't use recent Debian-based distros from using newer versions of Koha? It seems to me that this decision was made without community discussion. Maybe I'm wrong, but I figured I'd bring it up with everyone. For my part, I'm just going to hack around this requirement for now, but I don't really like that as a long-term solution. What does everyone else think? David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595

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Low hanging fruit: Removing un-needed use statements in C4 namespace
by Barton Chittenden 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Just to see what happens, I enabled warnings in C4/Reserves.pm. All of the warnings were of the form Subroutine * redefined at C4/Reserves.pm line *. This is happening because of circular dependencies, e.g. C4/Reserves.pm uses C4::Members C4::Circulation Those modules in turn use C4::Reserves. None of the functions used in these modules is actually called in C4::Reserves, but removing the calls to use C4::Members and use C4::Circulation from C4/Reserves.pm isn't enough, apparently there's a deeper circular dependency there. I suspect that there are a number of unnecessary 'use' statements peppered throughout the C4 namespace; cleaning those up might fix the problem entirely, or at least allow us to resolve any remaining circular dependencies easily. --Barton

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Presentation and questions about koha development
by Estefanía 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Good night to everyone! Nice to meet you I am Estefanía, from Argentina and my first approach to koha was the past year, in a comparison to decide wich ILS is the best to adapt it for my University´s Libraries. And now, for the Final Project of my career I want to adapt it. I’ve read about the KohaDevBox, but it says “The KohaDevBox is not suitable for running Koha in production”, so I think it doesn´t work for me, right? I wish to use the IDE Eclipse, but when I follow the steps in https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Eclipse, I got an error when I try to execute the command “sudo lxc-create -t download -n u1 -- -d kohadev -r trusty -a amd64”, it says: “ERROR: Couldn't find a matching image. lxc-create: lxccontainer.c: create_run_template: 1297 container creation template for u1 failed lxc-create: tools/lxc_create.c: main: 318 Error creating container u1” Anyway, I have a Debian Stretch Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, so I follow these steps: “echo deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha unstable main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install koha-perldeps” Installed JRE from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8-downloads-1331…, Eclipse from https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/oomph/epp/oxygen/R2/ec…, EPIC from http://www.epic-ide.org/download.php and Perl PadWalker-module. Installed git-core and downloaded “git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git kohaclone” And get an error indicating that the archive koha-conf.xml wasn’t found…so I copied it to the default path, and this error gets fixed. But I get errors in the source code when I did not change anything, I would like to work from the koha 17.11 stable version, I did something wrong? There is a way to download from git a stable version? Best regards, Estefanía --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Call for News: April 2018 Newsletter
by kohanews 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

I'm collecting news for the April newsletter. Send anything noteworthy to: k o h a news AT gmail dot com News criteria: --------------------------- ** For events **: - Please include dates for past events. If I can't find dates I may not add it. - Announcements for future events with dates T.B.A. are fine ...Eg., Kohacon - For past events , **** one month back is the cut-off ****. * News items can be of any length. * Images are fine * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th of the month. If you are working on an interesting project or development related to Koha, please let me know and I'll include it in the development section. Thank you! -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Clear OPAC self-registration form when back button pressed
by David Cook 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

What do people think about clearing the OPAC self-registration form when back button pressed? I used some code* from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8861181/clear-all-fields-in-a-form-upon- going-back-with-browser-back-button to implement it and it worked pretty well on the latest Chrome on Windows 10. That way you don't have people finding personal information about other people just by pressing "Back" on a public computer. * $(window).bind("pageshow", function() { var form = $('#memberentry-form'); // let the browser natively reset defaults form[0].reset(); }); David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595

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Using template toolkit in notices
by Barton Chittenden 14 Apr '18

14 Apr '18

I'm trying to use template toolkit for notices, as illustrated on https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Notices_and_Slips_Library#Notices_and_… This uses the syntax [% USE Branches %] or [%- USE date -%] to import ... something. The wiki page says 'See Koha/Template/Plugin/Branches.pm, as well as other modules in Koha/Template/Plugin/' ... the modules in Koha/Template/Plugin/ are fairly limited... and 'date' Isn't one of them (in fact it's calling methods from Date::Manip, which isn't even part of Koha). I'm trying to wrap my brain around which modules are available, and how they're called. Any pointers would be welcome. Thanks, --Barton

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Update your QA tests repo
by Jonathan Druart 14 Apr '18

14 Apr '18

Hi devs, I have just pushed Bug 20538 - Remove the need of writing [% KOHA_VERSION %] everywhere You need to update your qa-test-tools repo (gitlab.com: koha-community/qa-test-tools.git): commit baa71d3757ccaee183ff744ae752a689d7cf41ff Bug 20538: Pass interface and theme variables to template Koha::Template::Plugin::Asset needs them Have a great week-end, Jonathan

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Bugzilla query - all items in 18.05 release
by David Nind 14 Apr '18

14 Apr '18

Hi everyone. I want to get a list of all the bugs that will be incorporated into the 18.05 release. This is so the documentation team can make sure enhancements and new features are covered in the manual and release notes. Is this the correct query? https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/buglist.cgi?bug_status=Pushed%20t… Query is: - Product: Koha - Status: Pushed to master - Comment: 18.05 Is there are better way to do this? Thanks. David Nind | david.nind(a)gmail.com PO Box 12367, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand 6144 m. +64 21 0537 847

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Documentation meeting reminder
by Lee Jamison 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

Just a reminder there will be a documentation meeting tomorrow at 21 UTC https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Documentation_IRC_meeting_11_April_2018 -- Lee Jamison Automated Library Technician Marywood University 570-961-4586 ldjamison(a)marywood.edu

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