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Curator curator = new Curator();
curator.addTask("vscan").curate(coll);
int status = curator.getStatus("vscan");
String result = curator.getResult("vscan");

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Task Properties

DSpace 1.8 introduces a new "idiom" for tasks that require configuration data. It is available to any task whose implementation extends AbstractCurationTask, but is completely optional. There are a number of problems that task properties are designed to solve, but to make the discussion concrete we will start with a particular one: the problem of hard-coded configuration file names. A task that relies on configuration data will typically encode a fixed reference to a configuration file name. For example, the virus scan task reads a file called "clamav.cfg", which lives in [dspace]/config/modules. And thus in the implementation one would find:

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