Skip to end of banner
Go to start of banner

LASER/ERM Integration

Skip to end of metadata
Go to start of metadata

You are viewing an old version of this page. View the current version.

Compare with Current View Page History

« Previous Version 6 Next »

Laser/ERM integration is a collection of features aimed at allowing a LASER site to synchronize their subscriptions (Content Lists) and licenses with the FOLIO ERM Agreements and Licenses apps. The integration works via a new backed module : mod-remote-sync (https://github.com/folio-org/mod-remote-sync) and related UI: ui-remote-sync (https://github.com/folio-org/ui-remote-sync). Taken together, remote-sync is general purpose scriptable ETL tool for FOLIO into which arbitrary configurations can be loaded and used to keep FOLIO in sync with a remote data source. Whilst remote-sync itself is intended to be general and reusable, the configuration for LASER is solution specific and can be found here (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/k-int/folio-sync-tools/main/laser/laser_registry.json).

Installing the remote-sync configuration for LASER.

Configuring

We refer to bundles of configuration such as the laser config as a "Registry" - you can upload a registry from settings → Remote Sync by adding the URL of the RAW config file and pressing the save button.

If all goes well, the response looks like this (Currently)

Because a registry contains executable code with access to your folio tenant data each bundle of code must be signed by a key. The signature is checked when loading the bundle to ensure that the code has not been tampered with. The list of keys which can sign registries is currently controlled by k-int.

If all goes well, the main remote-sync screen should now look like this:

On the left side, the record source is listed. Boxes in this column represent the actual raw records which will be / have been collected from a remote source. Remote sync runs on a cron schedule which is invoked every 60 minutes. If a previous extract job has not yet completed, the task is skipped. This means remote-sync will try to synchronize with a remote source once per hour. Because some sources (LASER) do not provide a good cursor mechanism the only way to tell if a record has changed is to download the content and compare the current version with the previous one. That is exactly the process which takes place in this box for LASER. The main aim of the first column is to take a datasource with heterogeneous cursor semantics and turn it into a record stream which can be enumerated. The boxes on the left hand side correspond to the "source" record types in the registry. 

The High Level remote-sync workflow

Once in each sync cycle (Each hour) the boxes in the second column will look for any records in their supplying streams which have changed. For an OAI source this would be simple, for sources such as LASER this is computationally expensive. remote-sync will invoke any processes which are interested on events  



Specific LASER Semantics

The following sections essentially describe the code found in

License Import Procedure - Control

For each incoming license (New licenses, or newly updated records)

  1. If we have NOT seen this record before
    1. Attempt to look up feedback where the user indicates if we should import/ignore/map
    2. If "Create" feedback located - proceed to FOLIO license creation using the createLicense
    3. if "Ignore" feedback located - ignore the record
    4. if "Map" feedback is located - proceed to map this incoming license to an existing FOLIO license using the updateLicense procedure
  2. If we HAVE seen this record before
    1. Proceed to updateLicense procedure

License Import - createLicense

  1. Create a license with
    1. name = laser_record.reference
    2. description = "Synchronized from LAS:eR license ${laser_record?.reference}/${laser_record?.globalUID} on ${new Date()}"
    3. type = laser_record.calculatedType ?: laser_record.instanceOf.calculatedType ?: 'NO TYPE'
    4. customProperties = customPropertiesProcedure
    5. status = a value from the configuration which maps incoming laser statuses to FOLIO statuses
    6. localReference = laser_record.globalUID
    7. startDate = laser_record.startDate
    8. endDate = laser_record.endDate
  2. Post that to FOLIO
  3. Store the resultant FOLIO ID so we know in the future which record FOLIO License maps to this LASER license

License Import - updateLicense

  1. locate the FOLIO license with the ID which is mapped to this laser license (Storeed in step 3 of createLicense, or in the mapping for "Map" operations
  2. overwrite values in the FOLIO license
    1. folio_license.name = laser_record?.reference
    2. folio_license.description = "Updated from LAS:eR license ${laser_record?.reference}/${laser_record?.globalUID} on ${new Date()}"
    3. folio_license.startDate = laser_record?.startDate;
    4. folio_license.endDate = laser_record?.endDate;
    5. folio_license.endDate = laser_record?.endDate;
  3. Post the updated license back to FOLIO

customPropertiesProcedure

  1. for each property in the incoming LASER license
    1. Look up the property in the mapping configuration
      1. If Found
        1. Look at the TYPE defined in the mapping configuration
          1. Text:
            1. join all the LASER  notes together and add them to the custprop note field
            2. Add the value of the custom property as a TEXT field
            3. If there is NO-Value set the value to "No-Value"
          2. Date
            1. Join all the notes as for text
            2. Store the value in the value field
          3. Refdata
            1. Join notes
            2. Look up the value in the mappings config
            3. If a mapped value is found, set the value
            4. If not, ignore the value.
      2. If Not Found
        1. Ignore




we should set up a (semi-technical) documentation document in google, where you can explain the different workflows in that data is processed in the app. Things like the queue (that I learned about only today  ), things like "when does something  fail", things like "when do we need to retrigger after a change to a mapping" and so on. You will have it somewhere, surely.
And then, I think, we should get to the point to say that "this is it", every other expected behaviuor will be future features for a future development phase. And only real bugs, where the app doesn't behave as the document describes, will be things to work on in this project.

  • No labels