Package org.dspace.app.requestitem

Feature for conveying a request that materials forbidden to the requester by resource policy be made available by other means. The request will be e-mailed to a responsible party for consideration and action. Find details in the user documentation under the rubric "Request a Copy".

This package includes several "strategy" classes which discover responsible parties in various ways. See RequestItemSubmitterStrategy and the classes which extend it. A strategy class must be configured and identified as RequestItemAuthorExtractor for injection into code which requires Request a Copy services.

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
RequestItemAuthorExtractor	Interface to abstract the strategy for select the author to contact for request copy

Class Summary

Class	Description
RequestItem	Object representing an Item Request
RequestItem_
RequestItemAuthor	Simple DTO to transfer data about the corresponding author for the Request Copy feature
RequestItemEmailNotifier	Send item requests and responses by email.
RequestItemHelpdeskStrategy	RequestItem strategy to allow DSpace support team's helpdesk to receive requestItem request With this enabled, then the Item author/submitter doesn't receive the request, but the helpdesk instead does.
RequestItemMetadataStrategy	Try to look to an item metadata for the corresponding author name and email.
RequestItemServiceImpl	Service implementation for the RequestItem object.
RequestItemSubmitterStrategy	Basic strategy that looks to the original submitter.