Configuring an External PID Minter

To configure an external PID minter, create a Spring bean configuration file using the HttpPidMinter class, and use a system property to use it instead of the internal PID minter:

-Dfcrepo.minter.config=file:///path/to/minter.xml

Example minter.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

    <bean class="org.fcrepo.kernel.identifiers.HttpPidMinter"
        p:minterURL="http://localhost:8080/my/minter"
        p:minterMethod="POST" p:xPathExpression="/response/ids/value"
        p:username="minterUsername" p:password="minterPassword"/>

</beans>

The properties that can be set are:

• minterURL (required): The URL of the external minter REST service.
• minterMethod: The HTTP method to use to generate a new identifier: GET, POST, or PUT.  If not specified, POST is used.
• trimExpression: If set, remove text matching the regular expression from the minter service response.  For example, if the minter response is "id: foo/abc123", the regular expression ".*/" would remove the "id: foo/" and result in the identifier "abc123".
• xPathExpression: If set, parse the minter service response as XML and use XPath to get the identifier value to use.
• username and password: The username and password to use for connecting to the minter REST service.  If not specified, no authentication is used.