edge-caiasoft

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This software is distributed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. See the file "LICENSE" for more information.

Introduction

The purpose of this edge API is to bridge the gap between CaiaSoft remote storage provider and FOLIO.

Additional information

API Details

API provides the following URLs for working with remote storage configurations:

Method	URL	Description
GET	/caiasoftService/ItemBarcodes/{itemBarcode}/accessioned/{remoteStorageConfigurationId}	The polling API for accessions
POST	/caiasoftService/RequestBarcodes/{itemBarcode}/reshelved/{remoteStorageConfigurationId}	API for returning an item
POST	/caiasoftService/Requests/{requestId}/route/{remoteStorageConfigurationId}	Сheck-in by requestId and remoteStorageConfigurationId

Deployment information

1. CaiaSoft connection should be established from the CaiaSoft edge Folio module. Therefore CaiaSoft edge module needs to know the name of all the tenants, which has CaiaSoft connection. For the ephemeral configuration these names locate in the ephemeral.properties (key tenants). In order to provide it before the deployment the list of tenant names (e.g. ids) should be put to AWS parameters store (as String). The tenant names list separated by coma (e.g. diku, someothertenantname) should be stored in AWS param store in the variable with key: caiaSoftClient_tenants by default or could be provided its own key through caia_soft_tenants parameter of starting module.
2. For each tenant using CaiaSoft the corresponding user should be added to the AWS parameter store with key in the following format {{username}}_{{tenant}}_{{username}} (where salt and username are the same - {{username}}) with value of corresponding {{password}} (as Secured String). This user should work as ordinary edge institutional user with the only one difference - his username and salt name are same. By default the value of {{username}} is caiaSoftClient. It could be changed through caia_soft_client parameter of starting module.
3. User with name {{username}}, password {{password}}, remote-storage.all permissions should be created on FOLIO. After that apikey can be generated for making calls to Edge CaiaSoft API.

Rancher and kubernetes deployment

1. Check that mod-remote-storage has been installed and has been registered to okapi.
2. Create a new user named caiaSoftClient in FOLIO. You may also use diku_admin for testing and avoid this step.
3. Create a secret in the rancher cluster. Make the key of this secret ephemeral.properties and the value similar to secureStore.type=Ephemeral tenants=diku diku=diku_admin,admin.
4. Add this secret as a volume mount to the workload for the edge module container. Set the mount point of this volume to \etc\edge.
5. Set the JAVA_OPTIONS environment variable for the workload to something similar to -Dsecure_store_props=/etc/edge/ephemeral.properties -Dokapi_url=http://okapi:9130 -Dlog_level=DEBUG -Dcaia_soft_client=diku_admin .
6. Redeploy the container. This will make the container aware of the new secret and volume mount.

Other rancher considerations

If you are deploying using a FOLIO helm chart, you may want to take adavantage of overriding the chart's yml with answer keys and values to enable the ingress. Here is an example:

Key	Value
ingress.annotations.external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/target	f2b6996c-kubesystem-albing-accc-1096161577.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com
ingress.enabled	true
ingress.hosts[0].host	core-platform-edge-orders.ci.folio.org
ingress.hosts[0].paths[0]	/

Create CaiaSoft configuration

1. Log in to Folio, go to "Settings" -> "Remote storage" -> "Configurations", click "New" button.
2. Enter General information settings:

• Select "CaiaSoft" in Provider name box
• Enter Remote storage name
• Enter remote storage endpoint in URL and key in Credential properties field.

3. Set Data synchronization schedule. This setting defines timeframe to scan retrieval queues.
4. Set up Accession holding workflow preference and Returning workflow preference
5. Click "Save & close" button

Note: Folio updates CaiaSoft remote storage configuration settings each 60 minutes, so it can take up to one hour before new or edited Remote storage configuration settings will be applied.

Required Permissions

Institutional users should be granted the following permissions in order to use this edge API:

• remote-storage.all

Configuration

Please refer to the Configuration section in the edge-common documentation to see all available system properties and their default values.

Issue tracker

See project EDGCSOFT at the FOLIO issue tracker.

Other documentation

Other modules are described, with further FOLIO Developer documentation at dev.folio.org