[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Javascript libraries - documentation?

[Linda Jansova]

Hi Lebbeous,

Thank you very much for such a detailed explanation! I appreciate it 
very much (and so - or even more so - does Mila Nic who actually does 
the programming :-).)

Linda

Dne 19.4.2013 16:58, Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley napsal(a):
> Hello Linda,
>
> ** The following is a general outline of how to reach Evergreen API
> methods.  For your specific question about ISBNs, skip to the bottom
> of my e-mail. **
>
> Much of Evergreen's business logic is available through the registered
> API methods of several OpenSRF applications.  Instead of
> Evergreen-specific Javascript libraries, the way to access these is to
> use the OpenSRF javascript libraries best explained by documentation
> here:
> http://evergreen-ils.org/opensrf.php#opensrf_development  (thanks to Dan Scott).
>
> As for the API methods themselves, they have documentation which is
> often helpful in telling you at least enough about the expected
> parameters that you can experiment.  If you would rather not look in
> the Evergreen source code for that documentation, there is an easier
> way to find it by consulting any appropriately configured Evergreen
> server in this way:
> http://demo.evergreencatalog.com/opac/extras/docgen.xsl
>
> In the 'application' field, enter any of these:
>
> opensrf.math
> open-ils.actor
> open-ils.acq
> open-ils.auth
> open-ils.booking
> open-ils.serial
> open-ils.cat
> open-ils.circ
> open-ils.collections
> open-ils.fielder *
> open-ils.pcrud *
> open-ils.reporter
> open-ils.search
> open-ils.supercat
> open-ils.url_verify
> open-ils.vandelay
>
> And then check the "All methods" checkbox before clicking submit,
> except for the applications I have marked with an asterisk (*).  These
> applications have tons of dynamically generated methods, and so the
> retrieving documentation for all of them may be very slow.
>
> In this way you can explore the API documentation for all methods of
> the publicly available applications (we also call the applications
> "services" sometimes) of an Evergreen system.
>
> The demo system I have linked to is somewhat dated, at version 2.2 RC1
> of Evergreen, but system administrators can find docgen.xsl in the
> OpenSRF source code repository and deploy it on any site running the
> Evergreen version of their choice.
>
> Now, having explained all that, for your specific task of retriving
> ISBNs from a set of search results, I don't know that you'll find a
> suitable API method to do exactly that for you.  However, there are
> other ways to access Evergreen.
>
> It has nothing to do with Javascript per se, but I would use
> Evergreen's OpenSearch API to perform a search and return a feed of
> MODS records.  Example:
> http://demo.evergreencatalog.com/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/-/mods3?searchTerms=harry+potter&searchClass=keyword
>
> You will notice that the resulting XML document contains many
> instances of <identifier type="isbn"> tags. You can parse the
> collection of MODS records with available XML libraries for any
> programming language, including Javascript, and pick out the ISBN tags
> you're interested in.
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> Lebbeous
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Linda Jansova <skolkova at chello.cz> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Could you please advise us where to find some documentation to Evergreen
>> javascript libraries? We are trying to retrieve isbns of search results via
>> a javascript call but we could neither find a relevant function, nor a
>> Javascript API description.
>>
>> Thank you for any hints!
>>
>> Linda Jansova
>
>