[OPEN-ILS-DEV] AFOK no longer in SIP server Patron Information Response

[Ben Shum]

So, the AFOK was removed from Evergreen during 2.7 series' development.

This is the Launchpad number for the change:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1246745

This is a link to the change in git:
http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=commit;h=916c0950fbe0d3edd831ded46217589c27856451

There was also some discussion in IRC on November 3, 2014 on this
subject as well, see:
http://irc.evergreen-ils.org/evergreen/2014-11-03

I think from the gist of the discussion on IRC, the best options you
have are either to revert the change locally (and remember to do so in
future upgrades) or to ask your third-party software to adapt to
properly identify patron status in newer Evergreen versions.  But
basically, yes, this is considered a permanent change to Evergreen's
SIP responses.

-- Ben

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Alex Lazar <alonkiber at yandex.com> wrote:
> Between Evergreen versions 2.5.4 and 2.7.4, the AFOK field is no longer in the Patron Information Response SIP2 message 64.
>
> Using the same SIP server version testing patron status with Evergreen 2.5.4:
>
> Expired: [...] |PCAdult|PIUnfiltered|XI2275|AFblocked|
> Good: [...] |PCAdult|PIUnfiltered|XI2275|AFOK|
>
> and with Evergreen 2.7.4:
>
> Expired: [...] |PCAdult|PIAdult|XI88503|AFblocked|
> Barred: [...] |PCAdult|PIAdult|XI88503|AFbarred|
> Good: [...] |PCAdult|PIAdult|XI88503|
>
> I am wondering if this is a permanent intended change, a bug or something else. This field was used by third-party software to verify patron status.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Alex



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