Module: OAI::Provider

Included in:

Base

Defined in:

lib/oai/provider.rb,
lib/oai/provider/model.rb,
lib/oai/provider/response.rb,
lib/oai/provider/partial_result.rb,
lib/oai/provider/resumption_token.rb,
lib/oai/provider/model/activerecord_wrapper.rb,
lib/oai/provider/model/activerecord_caching_wrapper.rb

Overview

# OAI::Provider

Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting see <www.openarchives.org/>

## Features

• Easily setup a simple repository

• Simple integration with ActiveRecord

• Dublin Core metadata format included

• Easily add addition metadata formats

• Adaptable to any data source

• Simple resumption token support

## Usage

To create a functional provider either subclass Base, or reconfigure the defaults.

### Sub classing a provider

“‘ruby

class MyProvider < Oai::Provider
  repository_name 'My little OAI provider'
  repository_url  'http://localhost/provider'
  record_prefix 'oai:localhost'
  admin_email 'root@localhost'   # String or Array
  source_model MyModel.new       # Subclass of OAI::Provider::Model
end

“‘

### Configuring the default provider

“‘ruby

class Oai::Provider::Base
  repository_name 'My little OAI Provider'
  repository_url 'http://localhost/provider'
  record_prefix 'oai:localhost'
  admin_email 'root@localhost'
  sample_identifier 'oai:pubmedcentral.gov:13900'
  source_model MyModel.new
end

“‘

The provider does allow a URL to be passed in at request processing time in case the repository URL cannot be determined ahead of time.

## Integrating with frameworks

### Camping

In the Models module of your camping application post model definition:

“‘ruby

class CampingProvider < OAI::Provider::Base
  repository_name 'Camping Test OAI Repository'
  source_model ActiveRecordWrapper.new(YOUR_ACTIVE_RECORD_MODEL)
end

“‘

In the Controllers module:

“‘ruby

class Oai
  def get
    @headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/xml'
    provider = Models::CampingProvider.new
    provider.process_request(@input.merge(:url => "http:"+URL(Oai).to_s))
  end
end

“‘

The provider will be available at “/oai”

### Rails

At the bottom of environment.rb create a OAI Provider:

“‘ruby

# forgive the standard blog example.

require 'oai'
class BlogProvider < OAI::Provider::Base
  repository_name 'My little OAI Provider'
  repository_url 'http://localhost:3000/provider'
  record_prefix 'oai:blog'
  admin_email 'root@localhost'
  source_model OAI::Provider::ActiveRecordWrapper.new(Post)
  sample_identifier 'oai:pubmedcentral.gov:13900'
end

“‘

Create a custom controller:

“‘ruby

class OaiController < ApplicationController
  def index
    # Remove controller and action from the options.  Rails adds them automatically.
    options = params.delete_if { |k,v| %w{controller action}.include?(k) }
    provider = BlogProvider.new
    response =  provider.process_request(options)
    render :text => response, :content_type => 'text/xml'
  end
end

“‘

Special thanks to Jose Hales-Garcia for this solution.

## Supporting custom metadata formats

See MetadataFormat for details.

## ActiveRecord Integration

ActiveRecord integration is provided by the ‘ActiveRecordWrapper` class. It takes one required paramater, the class name of the AR class to wrap, and optional hash of options.

Valid options include:

• ‘timestamp_field` - Specifies the model field to use as the update filter. Defaults to `updated_at`.

• ‘limit` - Maximum number of records to return in each page/set. Defaults to 100. The wrapper will paginate the result via resumption tokens. _Caution: specifying too large a limit will adversely affect performance._

Mapping from a ActiveRecord object to a specific metadata format follows this set of rules:

1. Does ‘Model#to_metadata_prefix` exist? If so just return the result.

2. Does the model provide a map via ‘Model.map_metadata_prefix`? If so use the map to generate the xml document.

3. Loop thru the fields of the metadata format and check to see if the model responds to either the plural, or singular of the field.

For maximum control of the xml metadata generated, it’s usually best to provide a ‘to_metadata_prefix` in the model. If using Builder be sure not to include any `instruct!` in the xml object.

### Explicit creation example

“‘ruby

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  def to_oai_dc
    xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new
    xml.tag!("oai_dc:dc",
      'xmlns:oai_dc' => "http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/",
      'xmlns:dc' => "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/",
      'xmlns:xsi' => "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance",
      'xsi:schemaLocation' =>
        %{http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/
          http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd}) do
        xml.tag!('oai_dc:title', title)
        xml.tag!('oai_dc:description', text)
        xml.tag!('oai_dc:creator', user)
        tags.each do |tag|
          xml.tag!('oai_dc:subject', tag)
        end
    end
    xml.target!
  end
end

“‘

### Mapping Example

“‘ruby

# Extremely contrived mapping
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  def self.map_oai_dc
    {:subject => :tags,
     :description => :text,
     :creator => :user,
     :contibutor => :comments}
  end
end

“‘

Defined Under Namespace

Modules: Metadata, Response Classes: ActiveRecordCachingWrapper, ActiveRecordWrapper, Base, Model, OaiEntry, OaiToken, PartialResult, ResumptionToken