[Koha-devel] availability of a reserved item

[Paul POULAIN]

OK, everybody seems to be OK with the diagnostic. Now, what could be the 
solution ?

technical issue : our "problem" is that, in 3.0, everything in the 
result list comes from zebra : the biblio, the items, and the item status.
in the detail page, things comes from SQL DB

So I see 3 possibilities :
- don't display "hold status" in result list, but only in detail page. 
pro : very easy to code, clean from internal point of view. cons : not 
sufficient !
- update the result list on the fly, through SQL queries, to check is 
items are not reserved. pro : quite easy to code. cons : NOT clean at 
all from an internal point of view, SQL consuming, and won't appear on 
zebra direct queries (I think this 2nd cons is much less harmful than 
the 1st)
- improve the MARC item support to handle hold. That would mean a lot of 
things to do : choose a MARC field where to handle "hold" status, update 
zebra, update search.pm, and a lot of complex things to handle. pro : 
the best way to do it, no doubt. cons : very complex, can't be done quickly.

If someone see another way to do that, I would be very happy to read it !

Otherwise, which solution should be preferred according to you ? I hope 
developers & users will be able to have the same position, although i'm 
afraid it may not be the case.

My vote is :
- code #1 in 3.0.x, as it's better than nothing and can be an acceptable 
workaround + it's clean from an internal point of view, as, in every 
case, we will have to do it.
- code #3 in 3.x

(sorry to bother you, Americans with one more vote, when you have a so 
important one to do next week ;-) )

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