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FOLIO service module - licenses.
The licenses module provides services to document licenses and their terms, and to link those licenses to arbitrary resources on the folio service platform. The actual license metadata is minimal, but mod-licenses then provides a user-extensible set of custom properties where librarians can define and document the terms of their license in a machine readable way. This readme is split into two sections: The first gives information for developers wanting to use the services that mod-licenses exposes to the FOLIO LSP. The latter sections are intended for developers looking to maintain and extend mod-licenses.
If you are a folio module developer looking to use mod-license services the following URL patterns may help you interact with the service:
Some of the examples below talk about linking Licenses to other resources on the platform. This module provides a very open and extensible method for making these links, and it's largely inspired by the semantic web subject-predicate-object model and the idea that anything can be linked to anything.
This freedom should be used carefully. Without careful curation of the model, this facility could easily descend into a rats nest of mismatched semantics, and it's really important to think through your link structure and information architecture. It's particularly strongly suggested that you think about having hierarchical link types and reference IDs. Link types might be made hierarchical by having a module.resource-type structure - this would allow you to find all the links to a particular module, and then more specific links to a given resource.
Postel's law is the way here: Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
As of Monday 2019-01-28, we no longer include an expanded list of licenseLinks in the returned license object. There may be 10s of 000s of license links and this would be a heavy payload to drop on an unsuspecting client. Clients will therefore need to query the /licenses/licenseLinks endpoint and filter by owner==UUID_OF_LICENSE in order to enumerate the list of things a license might be linked to. This will give you full control over pagination, but prevent you from easily getting hold of the linked items in a default call.
The /licenses resource allows module clients to Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete license entities, and to search for licenses. See the documentation
/licenseLinks allows service clients to list all the resources that a license is connected to. N.B. This only reports links that mod-licenses manages, not inbound resources.
grails -Dgrails.env=vagrant-db dbm-generate-gorm-changelog my-new-changelog.groovy
grails -port 8081 -Dgrails.env=vagrant-db run-app
You will need to manually set up a postgres database user to hold the different test schemas and tenants. If using the vagrant backend box, use the following
vagrant ssh
sudo su - root
sudo su - postgres
psql
CREATE DATABASE okapi_modules_test;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE okapi_modules_test to folio_admin;
This will configure an okapi_modules_test database and grant access to the folio_admin user. If you're using a local postgres setup, you will need the emulate the above in your local config.
This module runs on port 8081 when run from the run_external_reg.sh script, and this port is the assumed default for the deployment descriptor. This is so that module developers can run mod_erm and mod_licenses side by side in development mode.
See project MODLIC at the FOLIO issue tracker.