[Archivesspace_Users_Group] GET & POST methods for terms

[Jason Loeffler]

Thanks, James. Looking at the docs again, I now see my misunderstanding.

term.*.uri is indeed misleading. Could be a mnemonic for the term database
identifier (term.id) or otherwise a development artifact.

So I take it 1) terms can't be updated by conventional means (i.e. the API)
and 2) my primary alternative is to issue database queries in order to
perform bulk updates to a set of terms?

JL


On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 5:40 PM, James Bullen <james at hudmol.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Jason,
>
> There is a GET /terms endpoint. It does a search and takes a q=.
>
> There is no GET /terms/:id - I guess this is the one that’s giving you a
> Not Found.
>
> And there is no POST /terms.
>
> Here’s the controller:
> https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/blob/master/backend/app/
> controllers/term.rb
>
> Terms aren’t really first order objects (they get managed via their parent
> object), so I’m not sure why they have a uri. For example:
>
>
> /terms q=Audio
> {
>   "first_page": 1,
>   "last_page": 1,
>   "this_page": 1,
>   "results":
>   [
>     {
>       "lock_version": 0,
>       "term": "Audio",
>       "created_by": "admin",
>       "last_modified_by": "admin",
>       "create_time": "2017-02-07T05:34:29Z",
>       "system_mtime": "2017-02-07T05:34:29Z",
>       "user_mtime": "2017-02-07T05:34:29Z",
>       "term_type": "genre_form",
>       "jsonmodel_type": "term",
>       "uri": "/terms/3",
>       "vocabulary": "/vocabularies/1"
>     }
>   ]
> }
>
> You see it has a uri (/terms/3), but that is a bit of a lie because there
> is no corresponding endpoint. There could well be a good reason for this,
> but I’m not aware of it.
>
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
>
> On Feb 10, 2017, at 6:40 AM, Jason Loeffler <j at minorscience.com> wrote:
>
> Can anyone confirm whether the GET method for terms works? I'm getting
> 'Not Found'. Also, is there an undocumented POST method for terms?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jason Loeffler
> Technology Consultant | The American Academy in Rome
> Minor Science | Application Development & Metadata Strategy
> Brooklyn, New York
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