[Koha-devel] Checkouts API Question

[Arthur]

Hi Stephen,

Although it's quite old, the ILS-DI interface is still available in 21.11.

You can check the GetPatronInfo with "show_loans=1" parameter (perhaps 
by default?) to get the loans.

Then you also get bibliographic information about those loans in one API 
call.

However, ILS-DI is not secure by design, there is no authentication, 
which means, when you activate ILS-DI it is open to everyone to get 
personnal information on any of your patrons by scraping with random 
biblionumber, just be aware of this a put decent security (we use IP 
restriction which is not ideal but minimum required IMO)

Best,

Arthur Suzuki

Developper @BibLibre

On 12/07/2022 16:06, Stephen Graham wrote:
>
> Hi All – we are on 21.11, and would like to include patron account 
> data in our bespoke University mobile app. I was planning on using the 
> RESTful API to get the data. What we would like is simply a list of 
> titles (plus author and ISBN) along with the due back dates.  I’m 
> struggling , when looking at 
> https://api.koha-community.org/21.11.html, to see how this could be 
> done without using lots of API calls. Would I have to do something 
> like the following:
>
>   * Call /checkouts to get a list of checkouts from the patron
>   * Iterate over the checkout_id and call /checkouts/$id for each checkout
>   * I cannot see any Biblio references in the returned data, so I’d
>     have to then grab the biblio_id from the /items/$id endpoint and
>     then call the /biblios endpoint to get the actual bibliographic data.
>
> If the patron had 10 items out this would be at least 30 calls to get 
> the bib data. Is that what I would have to do, or am I missing 
> something – like a header or extra query which would return all the 
> info I require from the first endpoint call?
>
> Any advice/pointers would be much appreciated!!
>
> Cheers, Stephen
>
> --------------------------------------
>
> Stephen Graham
>
> Library Technology Consultant
>
> Library and Computing Services
>
> University of Hertfordshire
>
> Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB
>
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>
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