unt-libraries/coda

Adjust default search behavior of externalIdentifierSearchJSON

vphill opened this issue · 0 comments

vphill commented

The default behavior of the extidentifier.json api is to return entries for the value supplied in the ark parameter. Currently, it returns all instances of that identifier, so if there are multiple versions in the database from changes being made to the object over time they are all returned.

extidentifier.json?ark=metapth1234567

This view is here in the code

coda/coda/coda_mdstore/views.py

Line 670 in d8c34b6

def externalIdentifierSearchJSON(request):

I would like to adjust this view to only show the most recently added item, based on bagging_date instead of default showing all of the items.

We can add a second parameter showAll that has a default value of False and if True then it would replicate the current behavior of showing all versions of that identifier in the coda repository.