[Koha-devel] Amazon Cover Images

[Martin Renvoize]

I agree Chris,

I'de like to see this either stay client side, or have the URL's cached
within koha's DB server side.  I don't much like the idea of having to run
a further server/service.

Martin


On 7 February 2013 10:42, Chris Cormack <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:

>
> * Frédéric Demians (frederic at tamil.fr) wrote:
> > I've played with this idea of a cover images centralized cache of URLs.
> > I have a mock-up. Anybody interested in testing, commenting?
> >
> > Client side (Koha), two syspref enable the service. URL are fetched from
> > the cache, via JSONP, just Google Books:
> >
> >
> http://git.tamil.fr/?p=koha;a=commitdiff;h=e8e223437a5f61c8320cba1b9563a2eb81a6f9f2
> >
> > Server side, it's a node.js + redis small application:
> >
> >
> http://git.tamil.fr/?p=coce;a=commitdiff;h=5e8021a95df07c7a5b14692955ac4c23c7490990
> >
> > It works now with Amazon and Google Books, but can be extended easily to
> > support other providers. It could work with other ILS than Koha. I can
> > show how it works on a Koha devel instance.
>
> I was thinking we could do it all client side with js and html5 (and
> localstorage or indexdb) You'd define the order in system preferences,
> local, google, amazon, ltfl etc. Then the js would try them in that
> order and cache the resulting url (or the fact it couldn't find one)
> in localstorage or indexdb, which persists even when the browser is
> closed.
>
> That way it wouldnt need to be another server/service, since you have
> the js already, it shouldn't be too hard to convert it to an html5
> client side app.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Chris
>
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