Plugin not constructing URLs correctly in 22.11.08

[mkstephens]

We're running the most recent release of the plugin (22.11001) in Koha 22.11.08 and are seeing 404 errors when trying to view record details from EDS. It appears that the URL for the detailed record is leaving out "plugin/Koha/Plugin/EDS/".

Working URLs look like this:
https://[koha domain base URL]/plugin/Koha/Plugin/EDS/opac/eds-detail.pl?q=Retrieve?an=[EDS record identifiers]

Broken URLs look like this:
https://[koha domain base URL]/opac/eds-detail.pl?q=Retrieve?an=[EDS record identifiers]

In our Koha EDS-API installation, the only EDS records that have correctly formed URLs that work are the ones that point to research starters. Everything else (journal articles, ebooks, etc.) have incorrectly formed URLs that result in 404 errors.

This has also been submitted to EBSCO Connect. Our case number is 5564607.

[fridobox]

Indeed we patched :
biblibre@bd6753b

To undo changes from 4f3e702

Looks like method get_plugin_http_path() is called but not defined

[fridobox]

Looks like this is also an issue for Koha 21.11

[mkstephens]

Indeed we patched : biblibre@bd6753b

To undo changes from 4f3e702

Looks like method get_plugin_http_path() is called but not defined

We tried updating our plugin. The version number matches the most recent release which includes this patch, but it isn't loading on our system. The plugin's last updated date shows as 2023-08-02. I will go back to our support company (ByWater) and see what they can do to get our plugin updated to use the most recent release.

[mmabrahamson]

Hello! Thanks for reporting this. I know it was set as closed, but I'm curious if there's anything common between your Koha versions.

We have a freshly installed version of 22.05 on Ubuntu and 22.11 on Debian and links are working as expected. The get_plugin_http_path() variable should be available to us when we import Koha (I thought). I'm pretty sure we were referencing this information https://perldoc.koha-community.org/Koha/Plugins/Base.html#get_plugin_http_path when initially setting all of this up, though if it's out of date I'm happy to revisit.

Can you give me a step by step on what's going wrong? In trying to duplicate I'm:
Doing a search in EDS.
Clicking on an EDS result's title.
Being taken to the Detailed view of the result.
Clicking on the "View in EDS" link to try and verify that is also working.
Being taken to the result in EDS.

[mkstephens]

@mmabrahamson, Happy to provide more detail.

We are running Koha 22.11 on a very old and decrepit 18.04 Ubuntu. We need to upgrade the OS and are trying to work through some internal issues to make that happen.

Our plugins table shows that the Koha EDS API plugin version is 22.11001, but the last updated date is 2 August. ByWater already tried updating the plugin once, having seen in Github that the most recent update was 6 September, but nothing changed and we're still having the issue.

Here's the steps that lead to our 404 errors:

• Log into the Koha OPAC (this is to make sure we get full EDS results)
• Perform a Discovery search in Koha (using the EDS API plugin)
• Click on a research starter result ... This loads correctly.
• Click on another search result, like a journal article ... This returns a 404 error.
• Click on a link to full text from the search results ... This also returns a 404 error.

It wasn't until I looked closely at the URLs that I discovered that almost all links to EDS records are missing "/plugin/Koha/Plugin/EDS" from the middle of the URLs. Only research starters seem to include it.