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

[Ola Andersson]

Hi,

Many thanks for the feedback on our outreach the other day.

We will get back to the list with replies to the different questions raised by everyone in the coming days. I am not responding to each and every one now. As some have mentioned this is a first spec which can be further developed in iterations going forward.

The order flow setup in its early form were initially proposed by one of our larger book vendors and expanded by the group, we intend in the first iterations to stick to it. This means we have something working, supporting our librarians ordering thousands of books from vendors, requesting this feature. I don’t see a collision between the proposed “punch-out” sending data once and the user continuing in the Koha client and a more refined handshake and redirect on succeed setup. We might be able to support both scenarios in the API and depending on vendor capacities and implementation they choose one over the other.

The existing Koha API:s seem too divided/segmented for one vendor to call several API:s for every order. Rather we will have the plugin include the logic to, once order data has reach the plugin, together with the Koha user, using HTML forms, decide on what to do and how to store it (preferably using API:s) into Koha..

I hope this further explains the setup we had in mind. Thanks again for the feedback – keep it coming 👍

/Swedish order module/plugin task group

Från: Ola Andersson
Skickat: den 7 september 2020 16:41
Till: koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
Ämne: Review on Koha Order Module/plugin API
Prioritet: Hög

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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