2017-05-18 DSpace 7 UI Working Group Meeting notes

Date

04 May 2017

Angular meeting

Attendees

• Art Lowel (Atmire)

• Andrea Bollini (4Science)

• Giuseppe Digilio (4Science)

• Matteo Perelli
• Tim Donohue

Notes

• Waffle board: https://waffle.io/DSpace/dspace-angular

• Simple Item View: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/74

  • waiting on more tests from Lotte?  Art will check with her

  • Is mergeable soon, but we should either get in the extra tests now, or create a new ticket for them
• Other recent PRs
  • Community support: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/92 (Now merged)
  • Initial Homepage (uses PR#92): https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/93 (Now merged)
  • Upgrade i18n to use ngx-translate (which is compatible with both Angular 2 and Angular 4): https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/94 (Now merged)
• rivaldi8 has started work on a Collection Homepage. Art reviewed early work and said it looks good. https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/63
• Giuseppe updated on Pagination work (https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/46).  One last unit test to complete. Expect a PR tomorrow or later this week.
• Open Repositories 2017 talks on DSpace 7
  • Workshop by Art & Tim on Angular2.  They've just begun drafting slides. Once further along, we'll share with everyone for comment/suggestion
    • Art is investigating using Docker for workshop attendees. Looks promising so far, so we'll likely go with that for the Workshop
  • 30min talk on DSpace 7 updates. Tim will likely be sole presenter, but would like feedback/content from Art & Andrea.  No slides started yet, but will be coming soon(ish)
• Updates on REST API bugs affecting Angular integration
  • CORS headers missing. A PR was just created (and now merged): https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1749
  • Including UUIDs in responses (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3593). Small change, likely ready by tomorrow. PR coming soon from Andrea

REST meeting

Attendees

• Andrea Bollini (4Science)

• Art Lowel (Atmire)

• Giuseppe Digilio (4Science)

• Matteo Perelli

• Tim Donohue
• Mark H. Wood
• Terrence W Brady

Notes

• Refactoring/Restructuring endpoints to be clustered by topic/section.  For example:/api/eperson/groups  /api/eperson/epersons. PR created after meeting: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1750

• Andrea working on Browse system/endpoint (list of endpoints available, title, author, etc). Two ways this could be implemented:

  • One option: use Repository pattern. Repository responsible to retrieve items. Used much in Spring Data REST project. Not favored by Andrea

    • URL pattern ends up like this: /api/core/items/search/browse?index=title
  • Second option: dedicated classes to manage the link. Better separation of concern. Easier to extend.
    • Andrea prefers this & this is the architecture of Katharsis
    • URL pattern ends up like this: /api/discover/browse/title/items
  • Andrea hopes to have done by next meeting. Includes both Browse & Top Communities
• No other updates to share at this time. Further updates will be shared on Slack between now and next week, as needed.