Source code for digital_milliet.lib.catalog

# coding utf-8
import requests



[docs]class Catalog(object):
    """ Provides an interface to a Catalog API Endpoint
    which can lookup author and work records by CTS URN
    """


[docs]    def __init__(self, app=None):
        """ Constructor

        :param app:  The Flask App
        :type app: Flask
        """
        self.app = app
        self.api_endpoint = app.config['CATALOG_API_URL']



[docs]    def lookup_author(self, urn=None):
        """ Looks up an Author by authority id in the remote Catalog API endpoint

        :param urn: The authority id (i.e textgroup CTS URN)
        :type urn: string

        :return: response from the API (this should be abstracted)
        :rtype: dict
        """
        url = str(
            self.api_endpoint +
            '/authors/search?canonical_id=' +
            urn +
            '&format=json')
        return requests.get(url).json()



[docs]    def lookup_work(self, urn=None):
        """ Looks up an Work by authority id in the remote Catalog API endpoint

        :param urn: The authority id (i.e work CTS URN)
        :type urn: string

        :return: response from the API (we should abstract this)
        :rtype: dict
        """
        url = str(
            self.api_endpoint +
            '/works/search?work=' +
            urn +
            "&format=json")
        return requests.get(url).json()