MediaShelf fedora-client

A developer-friendly Java client for the Fedora Commons Repository REST API.

Create a new Fedora object as easily as:

ingest("test:pid").execute(client);

Or, to add a datastream:

File f = new File("/tmp/Hyperballad.mp3");
addDatastream("test:pid", "DS1").controlGroup("M").content(f).execute(client);

Optional properties are just that: optional. And when you do need one, it's clearly labeled rather than lost in an opaque series of null arguments. Compare:

addDatastream("test:pid", "DS2").controlGroup("M")
  .dsLocation("http://localhost:8080/fedora/get/fedora-system:ContentModel-3.0/DC")
  .mimeType("text/xml").execute(client);

with something like the following:

apim.addDatastream("test:pid", "DS3", null, null, true, "text/xml", null, 
"http://localhost:8080/fedora/get/fedora-system:ContentModel-3.0/DC", "M", 
"A", null, null, null);

For complete documentation see: http://mediashelf.github.com/fedora-client/

Requirements

• Fedora 3.5 or later (earlier 3.x versions should work as well, minus some features)
• Java 6

Installation

fedora-client is now available via Maven Central. As of version 0.1.8, fedora-client is provided as two artifacts:

• fedora-client-core, which supports Fedora's REST API and riSearch
• fedora-client-messaging, which supports Fedora's Messaging

Both artifacts are also available as -with-dependencies jars, which bundle their respective dependencies in a single jar for use with non-Maven projects.

Building from source

1. Download the source, e.g.

    git clone git://github.com/mediashelf/fedora-client.git
   

2. Build the project

    cd fedora-client
    mvn install
   

   fedora-client ships with a number of integration tests and will automatically start and stop an instance of Fedora. Set the testing properties (e.g. port) in pom.xml, or to skip the integration tests entirely:

    mvn install -DskipTests
   

License & Copyright

fedora-client is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

fedora-client is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with fedora-client. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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