[Koha] Sip Field PI

[Colin Campbell]

On 01/04/10 12:51, Galen Charlton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Apr 1, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Colin Campbell wrote:
>> The Koha sip implementation returns a field PI described in one comment
>> as 'Custom protocol extension to report patron internet privileges', in
>> another as an unknown extension and in a third as 'Envisionware
>> extension'.
 >
> It's a fossil as far as Koha is concerned,
In the spirit of Jurassic Park I'm taking it on board as an enhancement 
to implement. A lot of UK public libraries are using SIP2 to allow 
access to library owned computing resources and need an internet flag 
especially for child tickets.

>  In principle, the Right Thing to do would be to rip OpenNCIP out of 
Koha's tree and contribute any base SIP2 code changes to OpenNCIP, 
leaving just the ILS connector code in Koha's source.
>
The problem is its hard to abstract koha as some logic is in the C4 
routines, some in the modules and even for something
like discharge an item its a long journey to trace where x becomes y,
the sip ILS routines attempt to give you the cleaner interface that was 
a design decision in the OpenILS interfaces, hopefully in 3.4 we can 
clean things up and make it easier to interface things to core engine.

Colin

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