eSciDoc Sub Resource Update Service

Description

a RESTful Web Service for retrieving and updating eSciDoc[https://escidoc.org] Sub Resources i.e. Metadata, Properties, Files, etc

Quick Start

Clone the repo, `git clone git@github.com:escidoc/https://github.com/escidoc/escidoc-metadata-updater.git , $mvn clean jetty:run

or download the latest release and put the war in your favorite Java Web Container, e.g., Tomcat, etc

Usage

Authentication can be done via username and password if DB-Auth is configured or by sending a cookie with a valid eSciDoc-Handle.

• Retrieve Metadata

Retrieve an item's metadata with the item id:{item-id} and the metadata name:{metadata-name}

$curl --user name:password -http://{service-hostname}:{portnumber}/rest/v0.9/items/{item-id}/metadata/{metadata-name}?escidocurl=http://{escidoc-hostname:portnumber}

• Update Metadata

$curl --user name:password --upload-file {metadata.xml} http://{service-hostname}:{portnumber}/rest/v0.9/items/{item-id}/metadata/{metadata-name}?escidocurl=http://{escidoc-hostname:portnumber}

• Update Component's Content $curl --upload-file {file} --header "Content-Type: ${file-mime-type}" -u"name:password" http://{service-hostname}:{portnumber}/rest/v0.9/items/{item-id}/files/{file-id}/blob?escidocurl=http://{escidoc-hostname:portnumber}

Example:

Update Item's Metadata

• $curl --user admin:swordfish https://api.escidoc.org:80/rest/v0.9/items/escidoc:1/metadata/mine?escidocurl=https://core.escidoc.org:80 > metadata.xml

• $vi metadata.xml edit, edit, edit and save

• $curl --user admin:swordfish --upload-file metadata.xml https://api.escidoc.org:80/rest/v0.9/items/escidoc:1/metadata/mine?escidocurl=https://core.escidoc.org:80

Update Component's Content

curl -v --upload-file 200.jpg --header "Content-Type: images/jpeg" -u"admin:swordfish" http://api.escidoc.org:80/rest/v0.9/items/escidoc:16/files/escidoc:17/blob\?escidocurl\=http://api.escidoc.org:80

Bug tracker

Have a bug? Please create an issue on eSciDoc JIRA!

https://www.escidoc.org/jira/browse/GENCLIENT Component: MD Update Service

Authors

Frank Schwichtenberg

• https://github.com/fschwic

Christian Herlambang

• https://github.com/crh

Christian Steiger

• https://github.com/cst1977

Copyright and license

Copyright 2012 Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftlich-technische Information mbH and Max-Planck- Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaft e.V. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms.

You can obtain a copy of the license at license/ESCIDOC.LICENSE or https://www.escidoc.org/license/ESCIDOC.LICENSE . See the License for the specific language governing permissions limitations under the License.

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