[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Thanks -- Drupal module that authenticates against Evergreen now available
Hi, Just a quick thanks to Mike and Niles for info that helped me with my Drupal module. I've got it working with both the Evergreen XML-RPC and JSON gateways. If anyone is interested, a request-for-comment version of the module is available at http://drupalib.interoperating.info/node/206 Mark Mark Jordan Head of Library Systems W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada Voice: 778.782.5753 / Fax: 778.782.3023 mjor...@sfu.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Best way to authenticate users against Evergreen
Thanks for testing my code Niles. Looks like the demo.gapines.org XML-RPC gateway is not working... I'll try to contact the webmaster (unless he's on this list =8^). Mark
Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Best way to authenticate users against Evergreen
OK, I've got the json gateway working, based on Niles' code (thanks again).
However, I'd like to get the XML-RPC approach working as well, since not all
PHP installations have curl enabled. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but
the following PHP code returns a 500 error from http://demo.gapines.org. The
code does work against a test XML-RPC server I have running on my laptop (which
just prints back whatever you pass it), so I'm assuming that the values I've
plugged in from Evergreen's collections.pl are not correct in some way. Here's
the PHP code:
?php
// Gets seed for generating md5 hash of user password. Argument is
// the patron's username.
$username = 'patron';
$request = xmlrpc_encode_request('open-ils.auth.authenticate.init',
array('patron'));
$context = stream_context_create(array('http' = array(
'method' = POST,
'header' = Content-Type: text/xml,
'content' = $request
)));
$file = file_get_contents(https://demo.gapines.org/xml-rpc/open-ils.auth;,
false, $context);
$response = xmlrpc_decode($file);
if (xmlrpc_is_fault($response)) {
trigger_error(xmlrpc: $response[faultString] ($response[faultCode]));
} else {
print_r($response);
}
?
Can anyone see what I'm missing? One possible problem is that in
collections.pl, arguments in the RPC request are passed through the Perl
RPC::XML module's smart_encode function. I tried replacing 'patron' in my code
above with 'stringpatron/string', but the demo.gapines.org gateway still
returns a 500 response.
What am I missing?
Mark
Mark Jordan
Head of Library Systems
W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
Voice: 778.782.5753 / Fax: 778.782.3023
mjor...@sfu.ca
[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Best way to authenticate users against Evergreen
Hi, I've looked through most of the docs and can't find any mention of an API to authenticate users against their credentials in Evergreen. Is there such an API (preferably a web-servicy one)? I saw the dicussion in the list archives from last May about writing a Perl script to pull up patron info via OpenSRF, but that's about all I've come across. I'm writing a Drupal module that will use drivers to authenticate against whatever external auth source will respond, focusing for now on library-oriented sources like ILSs since there are already Drupal modules for LDAP, Shib, Pubcookie, etc. Each driver is a small PHP file that simply returns TRUE or FALSE, and optimially an email address, for a user who logs into Drupal. (It also allows you to modify the login form programmatically but that's independent of the authentication.) If the account is not an existing local Drupal account, the request is routed to the driver (configured by the site admin) and an account is either created or logged in if the driver returns TRUE after talkikg to the external auth source. If the driver returns FALSE, the user is told the standard Drupal unrecognized username or password. I've got a working driver for Innovative (wich has a RESTful patron API) and a sample/generic SQL driver. I've figured out enough about Evergreen's actor.usr table to authenticate using it (well, it will work in Drupal 7 since in Drupal 6 you can't switch between MySQL and Postgres nicely), but if there's a more API-oriented way to query for users, I'd rather use that. I've looked for a PHP library for OpenSRF but didn't find any. Mark Mark Jordan Head of Library Systems W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada Voice: 778.782.5753 / Fax: 778.782.3023 mjor...@sfu.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Best way to authenticate users against Evergreen
Niles, Just what I'm looking for... thanks, Mark Mark Jordan Head of Library Systems W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada Voice: 778.782.5753 / Fax: 778.782.3023 mjor...@sfu.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Best way to authenticate users against Evergreen
Mike, Thanks for the additional info. I'll play around with these options. Mind if I use the test accounts listed at http://open-ils.org/downloads.php to authenticate off of http://demo.gapines.org/? Mark Mark Jordan Head of Library Systems W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada Voice: 778.782.5753 / Fax: 778.782.3023 mjor...@sfu.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Booking Equipment or Rooms on Evergreen
Jason Etheridge wrote: Are there any other open source projects that do this? We might be able to integrate with them or leverage their code. -- MRBS (http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/) is popular and feaure-rich. We've been using it for 5-6 year to book meeting rooms (both public study rooms and staff meeting rooms) and also to book some types of equipment like staff laptops. Mark Mark Jordan Head of Library Systems W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada Voice: 778.782.5753 / Fax: 778.782.3023 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
