[EP-tech] Re: EPrints REST API documentation

[Tim Brody]

On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 10:30 +0000, Masud Khokhar wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I am trying to find some documentation on the REST API for EPrints and
> so far, the only thing I can find is this.
> 
> 
> REST
>       * A "REST" style interface to objects,
>         via /rest/eprint/23/title.txt, for example. This can also
>         support "PUT" to alter fields!
> 
> 
> Is there any better documentation out there? I am specifically
> interested in whether I can get all publications from an author via
> the API, something like /rest/author/family_name+first_name ?

Hi,

What version of EPrints are you running?

There is an experimental REST interface that lives at /rest/. You will
need to give your user the 'rest' role (e.g. in cfg.d/user_roles.pl):

$c->{user_roles}->{admin} = [qw{
  rest
  general
  ...
}];

(reload Apache to apply the change)

This is driven by EPrints/Apache/REST.pm. One mention of it here:
http://wiki.eprints.org/w/New_Features_in_EPrints_3.2#REST


Otherwise, I'm working on support CRUD/REST for EPrints URIs:
http://wiki.eprints.org/w/API:EPrints/Apache/CRUD

CRUD is missing the ability to update records - what is normally "POST"
to an existing URI.

-- 
All the best,
Tim
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