Hi Peter, Thanks for clarifying! I must have overlooked that feature (I think most of the examples I had seen before were all DB ID based, and so that's how I was using REST).
In that case, I think we are "good enough" for 4.0. For 5.0 we can work on improvements to our local identifiers (DS-1782) - Tim On 11/15/2013 11:01 AM, Peter Dietz wrote: > Example: http://demo.dspace.org/rest/handle/10673/1?expand=all > > Peter Dietz > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Peter Dietz <pdiet...@gmail.com > <mailto:pdiet...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Sorry, but the current REST API does support lookup by handles. > https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/tree/master/dspace-rest#handles > > > https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/master/dspace-rest/src/main/java/org/dspace/rest/HandleResource.java#L32 > > @Path("/handle") > public class HandleResource { > > > @GET > @Path("/{prefix}/{suffix}") > > > > @Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML}) > > > > public org.dspace.rest.common.DSpaceObject > getObject(@PathParam("prefix") String prefix, @PathParam("suffix") > String suffix, @QueryParam("expand") String expand) { > > > > > It should work just-as-well as looking it up by DB-id. With the > exception that we haven't added the pagination params to the Handle > lookup. The handle returns either 404, or an object of the type as > the found DSO, i.e. <Community>, <Collection, or <Item> > > Peter Dietz > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Anja Le Blanc > <anja.lebl...@manchester.ac.uk > <mailto:anja.lebl...@manchester.ac.uk>> wrote: > > It is very easy to make the REST API understand handles. I have > done it > for items locally already. At the moment it is in addition to > database > ids, but I would be happy for DB ids to disappear from view > completely. > > Best regards, > Anja > > On 15/11/2013 16:08, Tim Donohue wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > > > On 11/13/2013 12:06 PM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > >> I had missed that we were hurrying to do something in 4.0. > I had > >> assumed that there wasn't time. > > > > To clarify, I was not recommending we change identifier > schemes in 4.0. > > > > As Graham mentions, all I was recommending is that we stay > *consistent* > > with our current identifier scheme. > > > > So, the only change I recommend for 4.0 is to change the > REST-API to > > accept Handles ([prefix]/[suffix]) as the identifier. > Currently the > > REST-API only works with Database IDs. > > > > As noted earlier in this thread, using Database IDs for the > REST API has > > several limitations: > > > > (1) Database ID is not very easily "discoverable" to end > users. So, if a > > user wanted to access this item from the REST API: > > > > http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/handle/10673/3 > > > > How would they be able to determine that it is actually > available at: > > > > http://demo.dspace.org/rest/items/2 > > > > (The same goes for specific Communities/Collections -- the ID > from REST > > is almost always going to be different from the Handle ID) > > > > (2) As mentioned previously, Database IDs are slightly more > fragile than > > Handles currently -- e.g. they cannot be restored by AIP > backup & restore. > > > > I hope this makes some sense. All I'm recommending for 4.0 is > that we > > tweak the REST API to understand Handles (either instead of or in > > addition to Database IDs). 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