spacelink

linking cspace and resourcespace

pip3 install "fastapi[all]"

This will eventually be a simple API endpoint for urls called from the resourcespace UI. That will offer a few functions for realtime updates between RS and CS. For the moment I'm starting with a simpler script that will do the basics of a 2-way sync between CS and RS (data to RS and images to CS).

Initial nightly sync script

Usage: python3 nightlink.py MY_CSPACE_INSTANCE

1. Query RS for new items, checking for a synced? field (value should be True or Null)

2. For each new RS item, grab an accession number from an auto-populated accession number field

3. Query CSpace using the accession number, returning metadata for the object

4. Add the metadata to the RS item, and also send a specified derivative size to CSpace, creating media & blob records, then make a relation record linking them to the original object

5. If all is kosher, update the RS item with synced=True

API endpoint flow

1. button is pushed on RS record view

2. triggers a POST request to specified URL, including RSID as a parameter

3. Use RSID and query type to query RS back and retrieve some relevant piece of metadata that will serve as a hook

4. Use this value from RS (i.e. cspace object id or accession number) to query CSpace again

5. Send CSpace response back to the item in RS

from rs button

All queries just include RS number, but will also contain optional parameters in the URL. so:

query types:

• validate_cspace_id
• push_image
• WIP: push_image_group (this will be used for pushing groups of images to cinefiles; for example its primary use will be to send an arbitrary number of stills to a single cspace record for a movie)

Other default options?? TBD