ArchiveLabs / ArchiveLabs/api.archivelab.org
Missing bookshelf link means loans may not persist on client side
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 40
- Forks
- 17
- PR merge metrics
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Description
The OPDS spec doesn't require a link with `rel="http://opds-spec.org/shelf"`, but without that link (and it looks like bookserver doesn't provide one) there's no way for a client to get a canonical list of a patron's currently active loans.
In practical terms, this means that the SimplyE mobile app loses all of a patron's loans when it's restarted. It looks for a bookshelf link, the link isn't there, so SimplyE assumes that all the loans have expired.
SimplyE could probably do a better job here, but when you're serving time-limited loans, the server is the source of truth about the loans.
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Research direction
No file or test is named; start by locating the API server's OPDS response for a patron's active loans. Check how the `http://opds-spec.org/shelf` link should identify the canonical active-loan list, then verify the response supplies it so SimplyE can restore loans after restart.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100