Bug or Feature in Rest API ?

[Monika Mevenkamp]

 

I have been looking at the demo.dspace.org/rest api

 

https://demo.dspace.org/rest/hierarchy

gives a tree for communities and collections – looking for ‘Sample Community’ is listed there

<community>
  <handle>10673/1</handle>
  <id>ff19bb02-4b01-4150-a7ff-997a9a9f89c2</id>
  <name>Sample Community</name>

 

 

https://demo.dspace.org/rest/communities/top-communities

lists the top level communities

I expected to find ‘Sample Community’ listed – but can’t find it

 

Is this a bug or am I abusing the rest API ?

 

Monika

 

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Monika Mevenkamp
OIT Princeton University

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[Tim Donohue]

Hi Monika,

That list of Communities is paginated, so you are seeing the first page of top level communities (which is just the first 20).  Here's how pagination works in the 6.x REST API:  https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/REST+API#RESTAPI-Pagination

Therefore, if you wanted to see the next 20 top communities, you'd pass along:  https://demo.dspace.org/rest/communities/top-communities?offset=20&limit=20

So, this isn't a bug.  But, it's just something that isn't very well documented/explained in the current REST API, so it's easy to overlook by accident. 

- Tim  

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