Add old style API call for creating link and tweak name of new style call

Author: Jamie Snape

core/controllers/api/SystemController.php

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ public function postAction()
       'default' => 'adminDatabaseCleanup',
       'databasecleanup' => 'adminDatabaseCleanup',
       'defaultapikey' => 'userApikeyDefault',
-      'createlink' => 'linkCreate',
+      'link' => 'linkCreate',
       'upload' => 'uploadPerform'
       );
     $this->_genericAction($this->_request->getParams(), $this->_request->getControllerName(), 'post', $apiFunctions);

core/controllers/components/ApisystemComponent.php

@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ function userApikeyDefault($args)
 
   /**
    * Create a link bitstream. POST is required.
-   * @path /system/createlink
+   * @path /system/link
    * @http POST
    * @param useSession (Optional) Authenticate using the current Midas session
    * @param token (Optional) Authentication token

modules/api/controllers/components/ApiComponent.php

@@ -283,6 +283,30 @@ function resourceSearch($args)
     return $searchComponent->searchAll($userDao, $args['search'], $order);
     }
 
+  /**
+   * Create a link bitstream.
+   * @param token Authentication token.
+   * @param folderid
+            The id of the folder in which to create a new item that will
+            contain the link. The new item will have the same name as
+            <b>url</b> unless <b>itemname</b> is supplied.
+   * @param url The URL of the link you will create, will be used as the name
+            of the bitstream and of the item (unless <b>itemname</b> is
+            supplied).
+   * @param itemname (Optional)
+            The name of the newly created item, if not supplied, the item will
+            have the same name as <b>url</b>.
+   * @param length (Optional)
+            The length in bytes of the file to which the link points.
+   * @param checksum (Optional)
+            The md5 checksum of the file to which the link points.
+   * @return The item information of the item created.
+   */
+  function linkCreate($args)
+    {
+    return $this->_callCoreApiMethod($args, 'linkCreate', 'system');
+    }
+
   /**
    * Generate a unique upload token.  Either <b>itemid</b> or <b>folderid</b> is required,
      but both are not allowed.