[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Web hooks or triggers on record update

[Brian Hoffman]

Hi Alan,

There is an endpoint that provides a stream of updated records:

http://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/api/#get-a-stream-of-updated-records

It is there to enable the indexer to do its work, but perhaps it would work for your use case.

There is a window during which records can show up in the feed (60 seconds by default) and records in the feed will have a ‘sequence’ attribute. If you make a subsequent request with a ‘last_sequence’ parameter that is equal to or greater than the highest sequence in the feed, the api will block (not respond) until a new update appears or the request times out.

The records in the feed don’t have any information about what date was updated.

Brian

From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of Alan Manifold <amanifold at slv.vic.gov.au>
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 1:52 AM
To: archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>
Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Web hooks or triggers on record update
Hi ArchivesSpace community,
We’re thinking of a few projects that could benefit from something like a webhook or a trigger when specific records are updated. For example, when an archival object record is edited, it could trigger a custom script that could update metadata in our digital asset management system. Or when a record is unpublished, it could trigger a custom script that would add an event record.

I haven’t found any indication that such functionality exists, but I’m not an expert, so I’m asking. If it doesn’t exist, is this something you think your institution might be able to use as well? If you are a developer, do you think it would be difficult or easy to add this to the product, either as an enhancement or as a plugin just for our site?

Any thoughts would be welcome!

Regards,
Alan Manifold



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