Re: [dspace-community] Setting Item to private using REST or Database updates

[Tim Donohue]

Hi Christoph,

I know this answer is a bit late, but as far as I'm aware, the DSpace 5.x or 6.x REST API does not have a way to flag an Item as "private".  This feature however will be coming in DSpace 7 (as that new REST API will provide all functionality available at the UI layer).

If you use the database approach of flipping the "discoverable" flag, that will work, but *only* if you also trigger a reindex of the Item.  That is likely the step you are missing...if you call the Java API directly, this API not only changes the database flag but also flags the Item as "modified", which triggers a reindex.  https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/dspace-6_x/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/content/Item.java#L177

Hopefully that gives you another clue on how to make this work.

Tim

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Sent: Monday, December 16, 2019 9:50 AM
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Subject: [dspace-community] Setting Item to private using REST or Database updates

 

Hello DSpace Community,

I upload items to DSpace using a self-written production tool for our publications which compiles TeX files and uploads the pdf to DSpace using the REST API.

These publications should be private at first until the TeX file authors have approved the publication.

This works perfectly by making the item "private" using the webinterface.

But I need to integrate this functionality to our production tool.

Is this possible with the REST API? I haven't found anything in the REST API docs.

Alternatively, I could modify some flags directly in the postgresql database.

I've found out that the "discoverable" flag changes when making an item privat, but the item does not become private when setting the flag manually. 

Are there some other flags I need to set or do I need to trigger some function to hide the item in the collection?

Best regards,

Christoph

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