JyFedoREST

JyFedoREST is a Jython package for creating and managing objects in a Fedora Repository. It is a minimal Jython wrapper around V3.2.1 of the Fedora REST API as documented at http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCR30/REST+API.
The source code for this product is available from the Fedora Commons SVN at https://fedora-commons.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fedora-commons/incubator/kepler/trunk/jython/fcrepo
In order to use this package, you must install Jython and also have the org.apache.commons.httpclient jar in your JAVA class path.
Funding for this project was provided under a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
h2 Product components
h3 FCRepoRestAPI class
usage: from fcrepo.http.restapi import FCRepoRestAPI
This pure Python class contains a one-to-one implementation of each method documented in Version 3.2.1 of the Fedora Repository REST API. It is the only class you need import into your application.
* All methods are named as documented on the wiki.
* Required arguments are expected in the order listed in the documentation.
* Optional arguments are acquired using Python's builtin argument dictionary syntax where each optional argument is passed as a name=value pair.
** EXCEPTION : for the ingest() method, pid is defaulted to 'new' in the Python implementation.
* Methods documented as "Not implemented" exist in the code but return a Python NotImplementedError exception.
* All REST API methods return an instance of the FCRepoResponse class descibed below.
h3 FCRepoRequestFactory class
usage: from fcrepo.http.RequestFactory import FCRepoRequestFactory
This is a support class that supplies HTTP connections and services to instances of FCRepoRestAPI. It implements GET, PUT, POST and DELETE methods in a very simple Jython wrapper around the same org.apache.commons.httpclient Java libraries used in the standard Fedora installation. The GET, PUT, POST and DELETE methods (and, thus, the FCRepoRestAPI class methods that use them) each return an instance of the FCRepoResponse class.