[Koha-devel] Add authorities add/del/mod logging

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

Hi,

I'm planning to add logging to the authorities management. In the
'action_logs' table we have, for biblios:

module : CATALOGUING
action   : ADD/DELETE/MODIFY for biblios, and other actions for issuing,
object   : a biblionumber or itemnumber
info       : string: 'biblio' or 'item' or previous 'marc' field (when
MODIFYing)

My first thought was that we could use 'CATALOGUING' too, and that
instead of 'biblio' in the info field we could use 'authority'.
Something like

module : CATALOGUING
action   : ADD/DELETE/MODIFY
object   : a authid
info       : string: 'authority' or previous 'marc' field (when MODIFYing)

But I realized that it is impossible to differentiate, from
tools/viewlog.pl point of view, if we're talking about a biblionumber
or an itemnumber (and now an authid) when the operation is MODIFY.
Check this from Items.pm:

logaction("CATALOGUING", "MODIFY", $itemnumber,
$new_item_marc->as_formatted) if
C4::Context->preference("CataloguingLog");

In the results in fact, they are all shown as biblios (bug?)! So,
adding 'authid' to the mix will make it worse.
Should I add AUTHCAT module? Should we split CATALOGUING module into
BIBLIOCAT and ITEMCAT? Also: should we avoid logging when calling
ModItem from Issues::AddIssue? It looks too much overhead as there is
a call to $new_item_marc->as_formatted.

Have a nice weekend!
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