Package org.dspace.app.requestitem

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. There are several methods of making the resource(s) available to the requester: 1. 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".

Mailing is handled by RequestItemEmailNotifier. Responsible parties are represented by RequestItemAuthor 2. A unique 48-char token will be generated and included in a special weblink emailed to the requester. This link will provide access to the requester as though they had READ policy access while the access period has not expired, or forever if the access period is null.

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

Related Packages

Package	Description
org.dspace.app.requestitem.dao
org.dspace.app.requestitem.factory
org.dspace.app.requestitem.service

Class	Description
CollectionAdministratorsRequestItemStrategy	Derive request recipients from groups of the Collection which owns an Item.
CombiningRequestItemStrategy	Assemble a list of recipients from the results of other strategies.
RequestItem	Object representing an Item Request.
RequestItem_
RequestItemAuthor	Simple DTO to transfer data about the corresponding author for the Request Copy feature.
RequestItemAuthorExtractor	Interface to abstract the strategy for selecting the author to contact for request copy.
RequestItemEmailNotifier	Send item requests and responses by email.
RequestItemHelpdeskStrategy	RequestItem strategy to allow DSpace support team's help desk to receive requestItem requests.
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.