[Koha-devel] ILSDI AuthenticatePatron

[Christopher Fitzpatrick]

Hello,

Alright, so  I did some digging...
looks like this commit => 
https://github.com/clrh/koha-restful/commit/fe08a78985b8e6a33ede2d3d798ac42ebbb426f8 


changed the Catalog.pm from using C4::Items::get_itemnumbers_of to use 
C4::Items::GetItemsInfobut didn't change the mock in the test, which is 
why the tests didn't pass. I've updated my code to mock out GetItemsInfo 
so all the tests pass now.

And now to start adding new features...

best,chris.


> Fitzpatrick, Christopher <mailto:cf at wmu.se>
> February 27, 2013 9:39 AM
>
> Hello,
>
> Sorry if this is documented somewhere that I'm not seeing, but I have 
> pulled down the latest version of Koha  and the restful code for 
> development, but several of restful tests do not pass. It looks like 
> all empty JSON is being returned, so I think my test environment is 
> not right....are there maybe some mock definitions I'm missing? 
> Apologize about for being dense...this is my first pass at setting up 
> Koha for development...
>
> thanks for any help...b,chris.
>
>
>
>
>
> Fitzpatrick, Christopher <mailto:cf at wmu.se>
> February 22, 2013 9:14 AM
> Hi,
>
> So, I went a bit more in-depth with the rest.pl... I'm curious if 
> there's a plan to add user interaction functionality to this? Like 
> allow users to renew loans, place holds, cancel holds?
> If someone where to add this, would you take a pull-request, or is 
> this out of scope and should this be forked to a project?
>
> thanks again..b,chris.
>
>
>
>
> Fitzpatrick, Christopher <mailto:cf at wmu.se>
> February 19, 2013 11:34 AM
>
> Hi,
>
> Excellent! Thanks for the info. The koha-restful package looks like a 
> better fit than the ilsdi.pl <http://ilsdi.pl> script. It was a little 
> hard to install, but I figured it out ( could not find a 
> libcgi-application-dispatch-perl for squeeze, but found package 
> libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl has this module.) Looks 
> like everything works.
> I actually just implemented OAuth2 with Koha (we use Google Apps for 
> Education, so all our student's use gmail), so I think this will 
> simplify the authentication situation as well...
>
> I'm currently writing a ruby gem to interact with Koha...I'll send an 
> update to the list when I publish it, just in case anyone else is 
> interested...
>
> thanks again. b,chris.
>
>
>
> Chris Cormack <mailto:chrisc at catalyst.net.nz>
> February 18, 2013 9:27 PM
>
> I'd POST to it, over SSL
>
> Chris
>
> Fitzpatrick, Christopher <mailto:cf at wmu.se>
> February 18, 2013 3:34 PM
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've just started working on some "connector" code to extend some 
> functionality of our Koha instance by interacting with another web app 
> we use. I'm wanting to authenticate users to their Koha accounts and 
> it seems like using the ILSDI api would be the easiest way, since it 
> would it would allow me to not have to make a direct DB connection.
>
> However, looking at the AuthenticatePatron action,  I'm not too 
> comfortable passing username and password simply as clear text GET 
> parameters, so I am trying to come up with some ways to avoid this, as 
> it's not very secure. Limiting IP access to the ilsdi.pl 
> <http://ilsdi.pl> probably does not  complete resolve this issue, 
> since the username and password will still be captured in the http 
> logs. I am curious what are some of the security measures others are 
> using when using this api?
>
> Thanks for any help! Very much appreciated...best, chris fitzpatrick
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