That's interesting, Terry. I think I'll just wait until DSpace 5.0 to get
the search-by-metadata feature, as there 5.0 is already a high priority for
us for a number of other reasons as well!

Alan

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:52 AM Terry Brady <terry.br...@georgetown.edu>
wrote:

> Alan,
>
> The following PR has some code that will search metadata via the API:
> https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/954
>
> I am also on 4.3, so this code is compatible with DSpace4.3.
>
> Terry
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Alan Orth <alan.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ah, it seems the `/rest/items/find-by-metadata-field` endpoint doesn't
>> exist in DSpace 4.x. Neither does the `/rest/login` endpoint. The docs need
>> to make more of a point to say which versions these are supposed to work
>> in... ;)
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:24 PM Alan Orth <alan.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks. It seems my query is well formed but it returns an "HTTP 405
>>> Method Not Allowed" response. Perhaps DSpace 4.x's REST API isn't
>>> sufficient for the find-by-metadata-field query. Or perhaps I need to log
>>> in as you illustrated here:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/BrunoNZ/dspace-rest-requests
>>>
>>> I guess I'll fork that repo and give this a more structured test. I
>>> already found some syntax and usability bugs there (mixing sh and bash, not
>>> reading the sourced variables, etc).
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Bruno Zanette <brunonzane...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey Alan,
>>>> Take a look at the commentaries on the REST-API's documentation's page.
>>>> I've answered a similar question there.
>>>>
>>>> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/REST+API?focusedCommentId=68068154#comment-68068154
>>>>
>>>> But basically, the request that you have to send is something like this:
>>>> curl -k -4 -H "accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type:
>>>> application/json" -X POST "
>>>> https://demo.dspace.org/rest/items/find-by-metadata-field"; -d '{"key":
>>>> "dc.title","value": "Test Webpage","language": "en_US"}'
>>>>
>>>> Em qua, 10 de jun de 2015 às 14:08, Alan Orth <alan.o...@gmail.com>
>>>> escreveu:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using DSpace 4.3 and trying to search for items matching certain
>>>>> metadata. The REST API docs on GitHub[0] mention that you can POST to
>>>>> `rest/items/find-by-metadata-field`, but it doesn't give any more
>>>>> information than that (like how to specify query parameters).
>>>>>
>>>>> I've tried several variations of the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ http --print Hhb POST '
>>>>> http://localhost:8080/rest/items/find-by-metadata-field'
>>>>> dc.subject="LACTATION"
>>>>>
>>>>> It always returns with an HTTP 405. What is the proper way to use
>>>>> this? Does the POST require I login first or something?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> [0] https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/tree/master/dspace-rest
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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