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/api/core/communities
Provide access to the communities (DBMS based). It returns the list of existent communities.
Example: http://dspace7.4science.it/dspace-spring-rest/#/dspace-spring-rest/api/core/communities
/api/core/communities/<:uuid>
Provide detailed information about a specific community. The JSON response document is as follow
{
"uuid": "7669c72a-3f2a-451f-a3b9-9210e7a4c02f",
"name": "OR2017 - Demonstration",
"handle": "10673/11",
"metadata": {
"dc.description": [
{
"value": "First description",
"language": null,
"authority": null,
"confidence": -1
},
{
"value": "Second description",
"language": null,
"authority": null,
"confidence": -1
}
],
"dc.description.abstract": [
{
"value": "This is a test community to hold content for the OR2017 demostration",
"language": null,
"authority": null,
"confidence": -1
}
],
"dc.description.tableofcontents": [
{
"value": "",
"language": null,
"authority": null,
"confidence": -1
}
],
"dc.rights": [
{
"value": "",
"language": null,
"authority": null,
"confidence": -1
}
],
"dc.title": [
{
"value": "OR2017 - Demonstration",
"language": null,
"authority": null,
"confidence": -1
}
]
},
"type": "community"
}
Exposed links:
- subcommunities: list of sub-communities within this community
- collections: list of collections within this community
- logo: link to the bitstream that represent the community's logo
- parentCommunity: the community containing this community
- adminGroup: the Community Administrator group
/api/core/communities/<:uuid>/subcommunities
Example: t.b.p
It returns the sub-communities within this community
The supported parameters are:
- page, size see pagination
/api/core/communities/<:uuid>/collections
It returns the collections within this community
The supported parameters are:
- page, size see pagination
GET /api/core/communities/<:uuid>/logo
It returns the bitstream representing the logo of this community. [See the bitstream endpoint for more info](bitstreams.md#Single Bitstream)
POST /api/core/communities/<:uuid>/logo
To be used on a community without a logo
Curl example:
curl 'https://dspace7.4science.cloud/dspace-spring-rest/api/core/communities/1c11f3f1-ba1f-4f36-908a-3f1ea9a557eb/logo' \
-XPOST -H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJI...' \
-F "file=@Downloads/test.png"
- The community is determined using the ID in the URL
- The file is uploaded using multipart/form-data
It returns the created bitstream. [See the bitstream endpoint for more info](bitstreams.md#Single Bitstream)
The REST API can support Content-Length and Content-MD5 headers to verify integrity
Status codes:
- 201 Created - if the operation succeed
- 401 Unauthorized - if you are not authenticated
- 403 Forbidden - if you are not logged in with sufficient permissions
- 404 Not found - if the community doesn't exist
- 412 Precondition Failed - if there is a discrepancy between the declared size or checksum and the computed one
- 422 Unprocessable Entity - if there was no file, or if the community already contains a logo
This endpoint only accepts one file at a time. If multiple files are uploaded, any extra files will be ignored.
PUT /api/core/communities/<:uuid>/logo
To be used on a community with a logo
Curl example:
curl 'https://dspace7.4science.cloud/dspace-spring-rest/api/core/communities/1c11f3f1-ba1f-4f36-908a-3f1ea9a557eb/logo' \
-XPUT -H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJI...' \
-F "file=@Downloads/test.png"
- The community is determined using the ID in the URL
- The file is uploaded using multipart/form-data
It returns the created bitstream. [See the bitstream endpoint for more info](bitstreams.md#Single Bitstream)
The REST API can support Content-Length and Content-MD5 headers to verify integrity
Status codes:
- 201 Created - if the operation succeed
- 401 Unauthorized - if you are not authenticated
- 403 Forbidden - if you are not logged in with sufficient permissions
- 404 Not found - if the community doesn't exist
- 412 Precondition Failed - if there is a discrepancy between the declared size or checksum and the computed one
- 422 Unprocessable Entity - if there was no file, or if the community didn't contain a logo
This endpoint only accepts one file at a time. If multiple files are uploaded, any extra files will be ignored.
DELETE /api/core/communities/<:uuid>/logo
To be used on a community with a logo
Curl example:
curl 'https://dspace7.4science.cloud/dspace-spring-rest/api/core/communities/1c11f3f1-ba1f-4f36-908a-3f1ea9a557eb/logo' \
-XDELETE \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJI...'
- The community is determined using the ID in the URL
Status codes:
- 204 No content - if the operation succeed
- 401 Unauthorized - if you are not authenticated
- 403 Forbidden - if you are not logged in with sufficient permissions
- 404 Not found - if the community doesn't exist
- 422: if the community didn't contain a logo
/api/core/communities/<:uuid>/parentCommunity
It returns the community containing this communities, e.g. for trail purposes.
If a community is part of multiple parent communities, it only returns one community.
Return codes:
- 200 OK - if the parent community exists and returned
- 204 No content - if the current community exists but the parent community doesn't exist
- 401 Unauthorized - if you are not authenticated and the current community or parent community is not public
- 403 Forbidden - if you are not logged in with sufficient permissions to retrieve the current community or parent community
- 404 Not found - if the current community doesn't exist
/api/core/communities/<:uuid>/adminGroup
Endpoints for managing the Community administrators
GET /api/core/communities/<:uuid>/adminGroup
Example: /server/api/core/communities/7669c72a-3f2a-451f-a3b9-9210e7a4c02f/adminGroup
It returns the EPerson Group representing the administrators of this community. See the EPerson Group endpoint for more info
Return codes:
- 200 OK - if the admin group exists and is returned
- 204 No content - if the current community exists but the admin group doesn't exist
- 401 Unauthorized - if you are not authenticated
- 403 Forbidden - if you are not logged in with sufficient permissions to retrieve the groups. Only admins and (parent) community admins can retrieve the group
- 404 Not found - if the current community doesn't exist
POST /api/core/communities/<:uuid>/adminGroup
To be used on a community without Community administrators
Perform a post with the JSON below.
{
"metadata": {
"dc.description": [
{
"value": "Test group",
"language": null,
"authority": "",
"confidence": -1
}
]
}
}
Contrary to the EPerson Group endpoint, the name cannot be set here
Status codes:
- 201 Created - if the operation succeed
- 401 Unauthorized - if you are not authenticated
- 403 Forbidden - if you are not logged in with sufficient permissions. Only admins and parent community admins can retrieve the group
- 404 Not found - if the community doesn't exist
- 422 Unprocessable Entity - if the name was included, if permanent was set to true, or if the community already contains an administrator group
All modifications to the group will be performed directly on the Group endpoint:
- Adding members will need to use the EPerson Group endpoint
- Adding sub-groups will need to use the EPerson Group endpoint
Modifying the Community administrators group will be authorized for admins and (parent) community admins
DELETE /api/core/communities/<:uuid>/adminGroup
To be used on a community with an administrator group
Status codes:
- 204 No content - if the delete succeeded (including the case of no-op if the community didn't contain an administrator group)
- 401 Unauthorized - if you are not authenticated
- 403 Forbidden - if you are not logged in with sufficient permissions. Only admins and (parent) community admins can delete the group
- 404 Not found - if the community doesn't exist
/api/core/communities/search/top
The supported parameters are:
- page, size see pagination
It returns the top level communities in the repository (i.e. the communities that doesn't have a parent)
POST /api/core/communities
To create a top level community, perform as post with the JSON below to the communities endpoint when logged in as admin.
{
"name": "test creation",
"metadata": {
"dc.title": [
{
"value": "test creation",
"language": null,
"authority": null,
"confidence": -1
}
]
}
}
POST /api/core/communities?parent=<:communityUUID>
To create a sub level community, perform as post with the JSON below to the communities endpoint when logged in as admin.
{
"name": "test subcommunity",
"metadata": {
"dc.title": [
{
"value": "test subcommunity",
"language": null,
"authority": null,
"confidence": -1
}
]
}
}
Error messages:
- 200 OK - if the operation succeed
- 401 Unauthorized - if you are not authenticated
- 403 Forbidden - if you are not logged in with sufficient permissions
- 422 UNPROCESSABLE ENTITY - if the parent community doesn't exist (the REST URI /api/core/communities still exists)
PUT /api/core/communities/<:uuid>
Provide updated metadata information about a specific community, when the update is completed the updated object will be returned. The JSON to update can be found below.
{
"id": "b8872eba-1a79-4b8b-a8f6-55fa8f73197b",
"uuid": "b8872eba-1a79-4b8b-a8f6-55fa8f73197b",
"name": "test new title",
"handle": "123456789/60631",
"metadata": {
"dc.title": [
{
"value": "test new title",
"language": null,
"authority": null,
"confidence": -1
}
],
"dc.description": [
{
"value": "An example description",
"language": "en",
"authority": null,
"confidence": -1
}
]
},
"type": "community"
}
Error messages:
- 200 OK - if the operation succeed
- 401 Unauthorized - if you are not authenticated
- 403 Forbidden - if you are not logged in with sufficient permissions
- 404 Not found - if the community doesn't exist
- 422 UNPROCESSABLE ENTITY - Altering one of the non-editable parameters will result in a 422 UNPROCESSABLE ENTITY error. The non-editable parameters are optional, but if they are specified, they have to remain identical to the current value. The id, uuid, handle and type are non-editable.
DELETE /api/core/communities/<:uuid>
Delete a community.
- 204 No content - if the operation succeed
- 401 Unauthorized - if you are not authenticated
- 403 Forbidden - if you are not logged in with sufficient permissions
- 404 Not found - if the community doesn't exist (or was already deleted)
Community metadata can be modified as described in Modifying metadata via Patch.