[Koha] Need assistance setting up SRU target

[Andy Boze]

Mirko,

Thanks very much for your assistance. I can successfully search 
SwissBib, and I now have a much better understanding of how Koha works 
with SRU.

In case anyone else comes across this, I'll mention that I found that 
the "Additional SRU options" should not be percent-encoded, as they 
would be in a URL. Apparently Koha can take care of encoding the 
characters appropriately.

On 4/6/2016 4:16 PM, Mirko Tietgen wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Andy Boze schrieb am 06.04.2016
>
>> Based on that URL, I've set the "Additional SRU options" field
>> like this.
>>
>> operation=searchRetrieve,recordSchema=info:srw/schema/1/marcxml-v1.1-light,maximumRecords=10,recordPacking=XML
>
> Good idea, but it does not work that way. Koha expects ZOOM in that
> field. http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/zoom.html
>
> sru=get is the equivalent to operation=searchRetrieve, schema the
> equivalent to recordSchema…
>
>
>> (It's not clear to me whether I should percent-encode special
>> characters such as : and / in the SRU options field. I've tried
>> it with and without encoding.)
>
> …a tilde (~) in the URL has to be encoded at least in newer versions
> of Koha. I would assume the same for the other fields. That would
> give you something like
>
> sru=get,sru_version=1.1,schema=info%3Asrw%2Fschema%2F1%2Fmarcxml-v1.1-light
>
>>
>> Also for the database field I've tried it both with and without
>> a leading slash (/). I would have assumed without, but just in
>> case...
>
> Not sure if that matters, but it works without / for other servers.
>
> Try YAZ-client to test the connection. http://www.indexdata.com/yaz
>
> Spoiler: it did not work for me anyway, but maybe the ZOOM stuff and
> YAZ get you in the right direction. You may want to get in contact
> with the Swissbib people if you can't get it to work.
>
> I put up the information related to DNB (German National Library) a
> while back. It's in German, but you can probably understand the
> config part and how to use yaz-client to test.
> http://abunchofthings.net/blog/freie-metadaten-von-der-dnb-per-sru/
>
> HTH,
>
> Mirko
>
>
>
>
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