Hi Gary, > I asked this question in 2007 with no replies. But I'd still like an answer, > even if it's "No way mate.". I'd like to append a bitstream to an existing > item, without removing any existing bitstreams. > > The "add" and "replace" options of the ItemImport class don't seem to > cover this useful possibility. I'd like to be able to do this > programmatically if possible.
Not as good a suggestion as Richard Rodgers has just mentioned, but there is also SWORD if you like writing scripts and playing with CURL. Whilst the normal use-case for SWORD is to deposit a new item, the DSpace SWORD implementation also allows you to POST a file to a deposit URL for an existing item, and it adds the POSTed file to the item. E.g.: > curl --basic --user "<<username>>:<<password>" -i --data-binary "@<<file > path>>/<<file name>>" -H "Content-Type: <<file mime type>>" > http://localhost:8080/sword/deposit/<<handle>>/<<item handle id>> HTTP/1.1 201 Created Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Location: http://localhost:8080/sword/media-link/123456789/2160/bitstream/169 Content-Type: application/atom+xml;charset=UTF-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:21:55 GMT <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <atom:entry xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"; xmlns:sword="http://purl.org/net/sword/";> <atom:id>http://localhost:8080/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/2160/8/sword-2010-03-15.jpeg</atom:id> <atom:author> <atom:name>[email protected]</atom:name> </atom:author> <atom:content type="image/jpeg" src="http://localhost:8080/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/2160/8/sword-2010-03-15.jpeg"/> <atom:generator uri="http://www.dspace.org/ns/sword/1.3.1"; version="1.3"/> <atom:link href="http://localhost:8080/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/2160/8/sword-2010-03-15.jpeg"; rel="alternate" type="image/jpeg"/> <atom:rights type="text">http://localhost:8080/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/2160/2/license.txt </atom:rights> <atom:title type="text">sword-2010-03-15.jpeg</atom:title> <sword:treatment>The file has been attached to the specified item</sword:treatment> <sword:verboseDescription/> <sword:noOp>false</sword:noOp> <sword:userAgent>curl/7.19.6 (i386-apple-darwin10.0.0) libcurl/7.19.6 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3</sword:userAgent> <sword:packaging/> </atom:entry> Cheers, Stuart Lewis IT Innovations Analyst and Developer Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand Ph: 64 9 373-7599 x81928 http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
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