[Koha-devel] Review on Koha Order Module/plugin API

Tue Sep 8 12:09:27 CEST 2020

Hi Ola,

Firstly, it's great to see the Swedish users group getting involved and
asking for feedback. Everyone works better when we all work together.

I'm still digesting the proposal as it stands, but I don't see any issues
with anything that expands the API capabitiies of Koha.. As Arthur
suggested, it would be great to see enhancements exposing some more of the
acquisitions functionality via the existing REST developments.  I'm not
entirely sure I understand the suggested flow however; but it does sounds
sami-familiar as a flow from my work with EDI.

Have you considered what already exists in Koha?  Do Swedish vendors
support EDI at all and could this perhaps be an option..? I'm sure there's
an ORDER message flow that allows for vendor first interactions where you
create a basket of items at the vendor, then Koha grabs that basket to
allow the Koha end processing and pushed it back to the vendor for the next
step etc.

I'll keep an eye on this discussion and contribute what I can, many thanks
for the inclusion.

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On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 07:07, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:

> Kia ora Ola (and the Swedish Koha users group)
>
> First of all I'd like to say its great to see you are wanting to help
> improve Koha.
> I haven't had a chance to read the full proposal, but it's great to see
> anyone wanting to contribute.
>
> Ill try to have a proper read and leave some feedback.
>
> Ngā mihi mahana
> Chris
>
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2020, 3:13 am Arthur Suzuki, <arthur.suzuki at biblibre.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Ola,
>>
>> I have no idea of what the final purpose is but I kind of understood from
>> your document you want to achieve automatic input of biblio data from
>> vendors directly.
>>
>> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Biblios_endpoint_RFC
>>
>> The route to get biblio data from koha is implemented in 19.11 but the
>> one to push to koha is still missing (can't find out which bz it is).
>>
>> I'd be really interested into seeing some community route implementing
>> order operations through the api.
>>
>> There is already one existing to interact with Koha vendor data, if of
>> any help:
>>
>> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Acquisitions_vendors_endpoint_RFC
>> -> implemented
>>
>> One of my concern, the one implementing purchase suggestions operation is
>> also still a big work in progress:
>> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17314
>>
>> Maybe nice to file a bug in bugzilla like "Route to create, list, update,
>> delete an order basket" or something of the like so that anyone can
>> followup? If you do so, please add me to the CC's :)
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Arthur
>> On 07/09/2020 16:40, Ola Andersson wrote:
>>
>> Dear Koha Developers,
>>
>>
>>
>> Here in Sweden we have started a task group in the Swedish Koha User
>> Group to build a Order module/plugin to Koha that allow automatic influx of
>> order data directly from a book vendor into Koha.
>>
>>
>>
>> The API draft is described here:
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/13EIWxTlN3Wo-8OtJuwu5serQu-dl-zdpK1qY5BNs0dk/edit#heading=h.jtxo4681sgpr
>>
>>
>>
>> We have had it posted for review in the Swedish user group – but we are
>> thinking it would be valuable to get the larger Koha community to give
>> feedback before we hire contractors to build the module/plugin.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please share thoughts on the API and how to best implement it in Koha
>> from a developer/QA perspective. All comments are appreciated and anyone
>> looking at the Google docs above can send comments/suggestions into the
>> document.
>>
>>
>>
>> When the API is becoming more stable and comments have been looked at we
>> could move it into the Koha wiki site.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please leave comments before 21 September 2020.
>>
>>
>>
>> /Swedish Koha User Group – the book vendor module/plugin task group
>>
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