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For more on the motivation and design philosophy behind the Data Distribution API, see Data Distribution motivation

Hello, World

As a first example, we create an API that can be called to return the text "Hello, World" – not very useful, but shows the basic mechanism for creating and using an API based on a configuration file.  

First, create a Turtle format file in vivo.home/rdf/display/everytime (you may name the file naything you like) containing the following:

@prefix : <http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.edu/ns/vitro/ApplicationSetup#> .
  
:data_distributor_hello
    a   <java:edu.cornell.library.scholars.webapp.controller.api.distribute.DataDistributor> ,
        <java:edu.cornell.library.scholars.webapp.controller.api.distribute.examples.HelloDistributor> ;
    :actionName "hello" .

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