Updateing stats

[Anja Le Blanc]

Hello,

I got now code to update stats when an item is viewed or a bitstream downloaded.
There is a config file in which you can specify whether stats should be updated or not. If set to true a UsageEvent is fired.
I had some trouble receiving those events; the only way I found was to change the servlet to a SpringServlet so that I could inject the UsageEventListeners. I am not a Spring expert and I have no idea whether I could have done something else.

In our instance we are interested in the data of the user rather than the application using REST. Since I can't attach the original HttpRequest to the REST query I added optional parameters for the user's IP, user agent,... That meant I modified the UsageEvent class to make it work without an HttpRequest. If the request does not have a parameter with an IP - the HttpRequest is used for stats.

I am not too happy changing the main DSpace API for that but I could not see an alternative.

Best regards
Anja

[Anja Le Blanc]

Update:

Communities view and Collections view now trigger usage events (if enabled).

[Peter Dietz]

I have merged in this Pull Request. I believe it was complete, if you had more to add to it, you can piggy-back in a sub-sequent tree.

https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/356