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Introduction
A web API was introduced with Dspace 4.X, however it was a read-only API. A full read-write RESTful API was released with DSpace 5.X.
See: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/rest
Documentation
- https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/REST+API
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/tree/master/dspace-rest
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/323
- https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Futures+-+REST+API
- https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Review+of+Existing+Dspace+REST+API+Frameworks
- https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2045
- http://demo.dspace.org/javadocs/5/apidocs
Example Code
- https://github.com/DSpace-Labs/dspace-rest-requests
- https://github.com/BrunoNZ/dspace-rest-requests
- https://github.com/peterdietz/dspace-rest-rails
- https://github.com/peterdietz/dspace-rest-play
Example Websites
- http://embryo.asu.edu
- http://cursosabertos.c3sl.ufpr.br
- http://dspace-rest-client-play.herokuapp.com
- http://dspace-rails.herokuapp.com/communities
Tests
Please note:
- All the requests use secure connections via https
- To configure secure connections for your repository, click here.
Type the following in a terminal:
curl https://scholar.sun.ac.za/rest/
curl https://scholar.sun.ac.za/rest/test
curl -s -H "Accept: application/xml" https://scholar.sun.ac.za/rest/communities | xmllint --format -
curl -s -H "Accept: application/xml" https://scholar.sun.ac.za/rest/bitstreams | xmllint --format -
